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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [Sess. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING 
Beginning the 133rd Session, 1915-1916. 
At the Annual Statutory Meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held in the Society’s 
Lecture Room, 24 George Street, on Monday, October 25, 1915, at 4.30 p.m. 
Professor Hudson Beare, Vice-President, in the Chair, 
the Minutes of the last Statutory Meeting, October 26, 1914, were read, approved, and signed. 
The Chairman nominated as Scrutineers of the Voting Papers, Professor James MacKinnon 
and Dr J. G. Gray. 
The Ballot for the Election of Office-Bearers and Members of Council was then taken. 
The General Secretary announced that Mr G. A. Stewart, Librarian, and Mr AV. J. 
Beaton, Assistant Librarian, were still on service, and that the Council had appointed Miss 
M. Le Harivel as Temporary Assistant Librarian. 
In submitting his accounts for the year the Treasurer drew attention to the exceptional 
conditions under which the Council and the Society had carried on their work and to the manner 
in which these had influenced the Financial Report. Four hundred pounds of the Society’s funds 
had been invested in the 4J per cent. AVar Loan, distributed as follows: — 
Neill Fund . . . . . . . £15 
Makdougall-Brisbane Fund . . . . . .150 
Makerstoun Magnetic Meteorological Observation Fund . . 220 
Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize Fund . . . . 15 
Professor Crichton Mitchell moved the adoption of the Treasurer’s Report, and also votes 
of thanks to the Treasurer and to the auditors, who were reappointed. 
Dr Knott moved and Dr Horne seconded the following changes of Rule, which had been 
announced at the Ordinary Meeting of July 5 and the Special Meeting of June 28 : — 
RULE IX. 
Each candidate for admission as an Ordinary Fellow shall be proposed and recommended by 
at least four Ordinary Fellows, two of whom shall certify their recommendation from personal 
knowledge. This recommendation shall be delivered to the Secretary before the 24th of December 
of each Session, and, subject to the approval of the Council, shall be exhibited publicly in the 
Society’s Rooms during the succeeding month of January. All recommendations so exhibited shall 
be considered by the Council at its first meeting in the month of February, and ,a list of those 
approved by the Council for election shall be issued to the Fellows not later than the 14th of 
February. 
RULE X. 
The Recommendation of a Candidate for admission as an Ordinary Fellow shall be in the 
following terms : — 
A. B. , a gentleman well versed in Science (or Polite Literature, as the case may be), being to 
our knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, we hereby 
recommend him as deserving of that honour, and likely to prove a useful and valuable Fellow. 
RULE XI. 
The Election shall take place at the first Ordinary Meeting of the Society in March of each 
Session, and only those candidates approved by the Council shall be eligible. 
Those candidates, and only those, whose election is supported by a majority of two-thirds of 
those voting shall be deemed elected. 
These alterations will necessitate the rearranging and renumbering of the succeeding Rules. 
These were agreed to unanimously. 
