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MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
XII. 
A Statutory Meeting for the election of Council and Office-Bearers, for the 
presentation of the Annual Reports, and for such other business as may be 
arranged by the Council, shall be held on the fourth Monday of October. Each 
Session of the Society shall begin at the date of the Statutory Meeting. 
XIII. 
Meetings for reading and discussing communications and for general business, 
herein termed Ordinary Meetings, shall be held, when convenient, on the first and 
third Mondays of each month from November to July inclusive, with the excep- 
tion that in January the meetings shall be held on the second and fourth 
Mondays. 
XIV. 
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 
