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it would be unnecessary to put this more formally but that it would 

 be seconded by the meeting at large. — Passed with acclamation. 



It was also proposed by Col. Thuillier and seconded by Dr. 

 Stoliczka, that Mr. F. Peterson and Mr. R. D. Stewart be requested 

 to audit the accounts of the Society. 



The proposition was put to the vote and carried unanimously. 



During the time that the ballot was proceeded with, the President 

 brought to the notice of the meeting the new code of rules, as proposed 

 by the Council. The President said — that it would be in the recollec- 

 tion of the members, that, for years past, there had been very frequent 

 changes made in the Bye-laws of the Society. These alterations were 

 generally brought up individually, and thus were frequently considered 

 without a full investigation of their bearing on other parts of the 

 rules. The whole series had thus become, in several respects, contra- 

 dictory and inconsistent. Many years since, a Committee of the Council 

 had been appointed to revise these rules generally and submit a new set. 

 This Committee had met several times, and had made some little pro- 

 gress with the task entrusted to them, when the departure from Calcutta 

 of some of its members led to a cessation of its labours ; and nothing fur- 

 ther was then done. The attention of the Council had been more 

 forcibly directed to the necessity for a general revision of the laws 

 during the last year, by the fact that the supply of the rules, of which 

 each new member is by the laws to receive a copy, had become ex- 

 hausted, and it was necessary to reprint. A Committee therefore had 

 been nominated, consisting in part of members of the Council of the 

 Society, in part of other members not in the Council, to whom 

 the whole question was referred. This Committee met frequently, 

 and very fully, and in great detail, discussed all the rules ; consulted 

 the rules of other Societies to see in what their experience might aid, 

 and after long and frequent deliberations they submitted to the 

 Council the series of rules proposed by them. These rules were then 

 gone over, seriatim, by the Council, and considerable alterations in 

 arrangement, in wording, and in a few cases in principle, were in- 

 troduced. 



The rules as thus agreed to by the Council were then printed and 

 brought before the Society at large. A copy of these rules had been 

 sent to every member, whether resident or non-resident, with a request 



