Council Meeting. 



VIII. Council shall meet at least once every month. 

 Absence without leave from six consecutive meetings shall 



cause a vacancy. 



Duties of Council. 



IX. The duties of the Council shall be to supervise the 

 correspondence, receipts, and expenditure ; to select communi_ 

 cations for reading, and cause the same to be printed ; to order 

 the time and place of meetings ; to appoint an auditor for the 

 g^ccounts ; and generally to act in the interests of the Society. 



Ordinary Meetings. 



X. — An Ordinary Meeting shall be held each month at 

 such time and place as the Council may appoint. The order of 

 business shall be as follows : — 



The minutes of the last meeting shall be read, and, after 

 confirmation, signed by the chairman. 



Candidates for admission to membership shall be proposed, 

 and those proposed at the preceding meeting shall be ballotted for. 



Donations, exchanges, and purchases shall be reported. 



Motions, of which notice has been given, shall be considered. 



Notice of Motions for the next meeting shall be given and 

 read. 



Communications in writing shall be read and discussed 

 within limits set by the chairman. 



Specimens, models, drawings, &c., may be exhibited, 

 examined, and explained. 



Visitors. 



XI. Each member present may introduce one visitor at an 

 ordinary meeting, who on the invitation of the chairman may 

 take part in the scientific proceedings of the meeting. 



Special Meeting. 



XII. — On the receipt of a requisition in writing signed by 

 not fewer than five members, the Council shall order a Special 

 Meeting to be held, within one month of the date of the 

 requisition, provided that the object of the meeting be clearly 

 specified in the said requisition. 



