Rules and Regulations. cix. 



13. All Papers and other communications to the Society read or 

 submitted at any General Meeting, shall be open to free discussion ; and 

 no paper read shall be printed in the Transactions of the Society ( unless 

 by a special vote it be otherwise determined), until the meeting next after 

 that on which it was read, when it shall be decided on the report of a 

 Committee or by distinct vote, whether it shall be printed in the Journal 

 of the Society, or be kept among its records, or returned to the author : 

 the vote to be by ballot. 



14. The course of business at General Meetings shall be as follows : — 

 (1.) The Minutes of the last Meeting shall be read by the Secretary, 



and signed by the Chairman. 

 (2.) Reports of Committees shall be read, and communications made 



of all articles received, and donations to the Society. 

 (3.) Any specific or particular business submitted by the Committee 



or appointed or open for consideration, shall be proceeded with. 

 (4.) Candidates or new Members shall then be proposed, balloted 



for, or admitted as the case may be. 

 (5.) Papers and Communications for the Society shall then be read. 



15. Special Committees may be formed for the prosecution of any 

 specific object or matter of research, but these must be named at a Gene- 

 ral Meeting; and they will act as much as may be in co-operation with 

 the Secretary of the Society, who will also be a constituent Member of 

 all such Committees. 



16. Every Member of the Society has the privilege of introducing 

 either personally or by a card, one or two visitors to the General Meetings. 



17. Evening Meetings shall be held once a month, or at other times 

 as may be arranged, for discussion on papers read, or to be read at Ge- 

 neral Meetings, (such papers however not necessarily being before the 

 Meeting,) the mutual improvement of the Menbers, and the promotion of 

 the objects and advancement of the interests of the Society. 



