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Council. 
98.—That three Members at least of the Council shall retire at the end of the year, 
but shall, however, be re-eligible (those Members who have attended the least number 
of times to go out first). 
29.—That the Council shall meet from time to time, as shall be deemed expedient 
for the interests of the Society, 
36.—Five Members, including the Chairman, shall be a quorum. 
31.—The Chair at Council shall be taken as at the Ordinary Meetings. 
32.—It shall be the duty of the Council to superintend all the affairs of the 
Societ, 
33,-_The Council may authorize the lending of books, &c., to Members, under such 
regulations and conditions as it may deem expedient; and may exchange or dispose of 
duplicate specimens belonging to the Society. 
Section IV.—OrpinARY MEETINGS. 
34.—That the Society shall meet on the Evening of the First Wednesday in each. 
month, from November to June, inclusive, at the hour of Eight o’Clock, the Chair to be 
taken at a quarter past Eight, precisely ; and it shall be in the power of the Council to 
call a General Meeting of the Society at any time it may be expedient to do so. 
35.—That the order of business at each night of Meeting shall be as follows:— 
1st. The Secretary shall read aloud the Minutes of the preceding Meeting, and the 
Chairman shall sign them. 
2nd. The Receipt of Presents and Donations to the Society shall be announced, and 
exhibited. 
3rd. Papers for the evening shall be announced and read. 
4th. That the reading of any paper shall not occupy more than half an hour, except 
by consent of the Meeting. 
5th. That the Members shall then be invited by the President to deliver their opinions 
on the papers which have been read, and on any specimens which may be exhibited at 
the Meeting. 
6th. That the private business of the Society which is to be discussed at the Ordi- 
nary Meetings shall be transacted after the Communications of the evening have been 
read, and that all strangers and visitors be requested to retire. 
36.—All questions shall be decided by a majority; when the Members are equal, the 
Chairman shall have a casting voice. 
37.—Each Member shall have the privilege of introducing one Visitor to the Ordi- 
nary Meetings, provided he writes the name of the Visitor in a book to be kept for that 
purpose. 
38.—Any Member wishing to propose or alter a regulation of tne Society, shall give 
notice at one of the Ordinary Meetings, and it shall be discussed and decided on the next 
Ordinary Meeting of the Society ; and the Secretary shall cause a copy of such notice to 
be forwarded to all Members along with the usual notice of Meeting. 
39.—That the Secretaries give notice to the Members, in the Summonses for the 
Ordinary Meetings, of any important questions to be discussed at that Meeting. 
SECTION V.—ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
40.—The Annual General Meeting shall be held on the first Thursday in November 
in each year, for the purpose of electing Officers and Council for the ensuing year, and 
hearing the Annual Report of the proceedings and affairs of the Society. 
41.—The Chair shall be taken at a quarter past eight o’Clock, precisely. 
42.—The Council shall put forward, each year, the old List of the Council, omitting 
the three natural vacancies; and, in juxtaposition, a List of nine names, including the 
omitted Members of Council, from which they recommend to the Society to elect to those 
vacancies. 
43.—A Member wishing to remove any person from the list, may strike out his 
name, and write in its place the name of the Member he wishes to be elected instead. 
