262 J. H. MAIDEN. 
6. The office-bearers and the other members of council 
to be elected by ballot at a meeting of the society, to be 
held annually in the month of May. A majority of votes 
to decide the election. 
7. Any vacancies occurring in the council of management 
during the year, to be filled up by the council of manage- 
ment. 
8. The entrance money paid by ordinary members on 
their admission to be one guinea; and the annual subscrip- 
tion to be one guinea, payable in advance. 
9. The sum of £10 may be paid at any time by a member 
as a composition for the ordinary annual payment for life. 
10. Ordinary meetings to be held once a month, during 
eight months in the year. Special general meetings may 
be held at any time under the authority of the council of 
management. 
11. Bye-laws proposed by the council management shall 
not be binding until ratified by a general meeting. 
‘12. No alteration or addition to the fundamental rules of 
the society shall be made unless carried at two successive 
general meetings. 
His Excellency read a paper on “‘The development of the 
railway system in Hngland, with suggestions as to its 
application to the colony of New South Wales.”’ 
[Under the principal title of ‘“‘ Railroads,” this paper was 
referred to by the President in his letter to Sir Roderick 
Murchison. See p. 260. A copy, printed in the ‘‘Herald’’ 
will be found in the Society’s cuttings book; see also the 
Magazine I, 8, 9.] 
Minutes of Council of Management of the Philosophical 
Society, 3rd June, 1856. 
Council met at Government House. Present :—His 
Excellency Sir William Denison, Dr. Woolley, Professor 
