PROCEEDINGS 
OP THE 
Vol. III. DECEMBER, 1868. No. 9. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
Thursday, December 3rd, 1868. — Mr. Thomas Pease, F.G.S., one of the 
Vice-Presidents in the Chair. 
The Hon. Secretary having read the minutes of the last Meeting, which 
were confirmed, announced that Captain A. Jones, the Rev. T. C. Browne, M.A. 
and Mr. Prangley, Jun. had been elected Members, and Mrs. Herbert 
Thomas, a Lady-Associate of the Society. 
He then said that the Council had recommended that a resolution should 
be put to the Meeting with reference to the forthcoming work of the Society 
on the Natural History of the Neighbourhood ; it was as follows— "That it is 
desirable that a Guarantee Fund of from thirty to forty pounds be raised by 
subscription for the Society's Publication, and that any of the Fund advanced 
be repaid by the proceeds arising from the sale of the first part of the work, 
or from the Society's exchequer if it permit of it." Mr. Leipner then said 
he would say a few words in explanation of this resolution. It might be, he 
continued, in the recollection of the members that a resolution in respect t© 
the publication of this work had been passed by the members some con- 
