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with the exception that in January the Meetings shall be held on the second and 
fourth Mondays. 
The Council shall have power to alter the date of any Ordinary Meeting, if 
it appears to them conducive to the interests of the Society. 
XI V. 
A Special Meeting of the Society may be called at any time by direction of 
the Council, or on a requisition to the Council signed by not fewer than six 
Fellows. The date and hour of such Meeting shall be determined by the 
Council, who shall give not less than seven days’ notice of such Meeting. The 
notice shall state the purpose for which the Special Meeting is summoned ; no 
other business shall be transacted. 
PUBLICATION OF PAPERS. 
XV. 
The Society shall publish Transactions and Proceedings. The consideration 
of the acceptance, reading, and publication of papers is vested in the Council, 
whose decision shall be final. Acceptance for reading shall not necessarily imply 
acceptance for publication. 
DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS. 
XVI. 
Fellows who are not in arrear with their Annual Subscriptions and all 
Honorary Fellows shall be entitled gratis to copies of the Parts of the Trans- 
actions and the Proceedings published subsequently to their admission. 
Copies of the Parts of the Proceedings shall be distributed by post or 
otherwise, as soon as may be convenient after publication ; copies of the Transac- 
tions or Parts thereof shall be obtainable upon application, either personally or 
by an authorised agent, to the Librarian, provided the application is made 
within five years after the date of publication. 
CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL. 
XVII. 
The Council shall consist of a President, six Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, 
a General Secretary, two Secretaries to the Ordinary Meetings (the one repre- 
senting the Biological group and the other the Physical group of Sciences),* a 
Curator of the Library and Museum, and twelve ordinary members of Council. 
* The Biological group includes Anatomy, Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Pathology, 
Physiology, Zoology ; the Physical group includes Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics, 
Metallurgy, Meteorology, Physics. 
