V. Each member present at the General Annual Meeting 

 shall have the power to alter the list of names recommended by 

 the Council, by adding to it the names of any eligible members 

 not already included in it and removing from it an equivalent 

 number of names, and he shall use this list with or without such 

 alterations as a balloting list at the election of Officers and 

 Council. 



Council Meetings. 



VI. Meetings of the Council of Management shall take place 

 on the last Wednesday in every month, and on such other days 

 as the Council may determine. 



Absence from Meetings of Council. — Quorum. 



VII. Any member of the Council absenting himself from three 

 consecutive meetings of the Council, without giving a satisfactory 

 explanation in writing, shall be considered to have vacated his 

 office, and the election of a member to fill his place shall be 

 proceeded with at the next Council meeting in accordance with 

 Fundamental Rule V. No business shall be transacted at any 

 meeting of the Council unless three members are present. 



Duties of Secretaries. 



VIII. The Honorary Secretaries shall perform, or shall cause 

 the Assistant Secretary to perform, the following duties : — 



1. Conduct the correspondence of the Society and Council. 



2. Attend the General Meetings of the Society and the 



meetings of the Council, to take minutes of the pro- 

 ceedings of such meetings, and at the commencement 

 of such to read aloud the minutes of the preceding 

 meeting. 



3. At the Ordinary Meetings of the members to announce 



the presents made to the Society since their last 

 meeting ; to read the certificates of candidates for 

 admission to the Society, and such original papers 

 communicated to the Society as are not read by their 

 respective authors, and the letters addressed to it. 



