xl. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Such list shall be exhibited in the Society's Rooms at least one 

 calendar month before the day appointed for the Annual General 

 Meeting. Any member of the Society not disqualified by Rules 

 XIII., XIV., or XIVa., may be nominated for the position of 

 President, Vice-President, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Secre- 

 tary, or Member of the Council, provided that his candidature 

 shall have been notified to the Honorary Secretary or Secretaries 

 under the hands of two qualified voters — such notification being 

 countersigned by the nominee — at least fourteen days before the 

 day appointed for the Annual General Meeting. 



A complete list showing the names of those recommended for 

 election by the Council, and those nominated as in the last pre- 

 ceding clause, shall be sent to each member of the Society, at 

 least seven days before the day appointed for the Annual General 

 Meeting. 



Rule Va. was repealed. 



Rule VI. was amended as follows: — In lieu of the first para- 

 graph of the above Rule, read : — 



The balloting list for the election of Officers and Members of 

 Council shall contain a list of the names of those recommended 

 by the Council and also of those otherwise nominated as provided 

 for in Rule V. Heading the former, the words " Recommended 

 by Council " shall be inserted, and opposite the latter the names 

 of the nominators. 



It was stated that if possible, the rules as amended would be 

 put into operation at the next Annual General Meeting. 



Mr. Russell read a letter received from Professor Pickering of 

 the Harvard Observatory, U.S.A., and gave some information 

 with regard to the expected stream of meteors on the 15th inst. 



Professor Anderson Stuart, m.d., gave a demonstration on 

 the formation of the retina of the ox's eye. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Denson showed preparations of micro- 

 organisms occurring in milk and other dairy products, also some 

 preparations of pathogenic organisms. 



