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Sections. 

 XLII. To allow those members of the Society who devote 

 attention to particular branches of science fuller opportunities 

 and facilities of meeting and working together with fewer formal 

 restrictions than are necessary at the Ordinary General Meetings 

 of the Society, — Sections or Committees may be established in 

 the following branches of science : — 



Section A. — Astronomy, Meteorology, Physics, Mathematics, 



and Mechanics. 

 Section B. — Chemistry and Mineralogy, and their application 



to the Arts and Agriculture. 

 Section C. — Geology and Palaeontology. 

 Section D. — Biology, i.e. Botany and Zoology, including 



Entomology. 

 Section E. — Miscroscopical Science. 

 Section F. — Geography and Ethnology. 

 Section G. — Literature and the Fine Arts, including 



Architecture. 

 Section H. — Medical. 



Section I. — Sanitary and Social Science and Statistics. 

 Section K. — Civil and Mechanical Engineering. 



Section Committees — Card of Meetings. 

 XLTII. The first meeting of each Section shall be appointed 

 by the Council. At that meeting the members shall elect their 

 own chairman, Secretary, and a Committee of four ; and arrange 

 the days and hours of their future meetings. A card showing 

 the dates of each meeting for the current year shall he printed 

 for distribution amongst the members of the Society. 



Membership of Sections. 

 XLIV. Only members of the Society shall have the privilege 

 of joining any of the Sections. 



Reports from Sections. 

 XLV. The Secretary of each Section shall keep minutes of its 

 proceedings. The Chairman and the Secretary shall jointly 

 prepare and forward to the Hon. Secretaries of the Society, on or 



