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ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
40. Any Fellow may erase any name from the balloting paper, 
and may insert in place thereof the name of any other duly qualified 
Fellow. 
41. If for any reason a new Council shall not he elected at the 
Annual Meeting, the Council for the time being shall continue in 
office for the year ensuing, or until a new Council shall he elected by 
a Special General Meeting, and if the place of any Officer or Ordinary 
Member of Council is not filled up the Council shall have power to fill 
such vacancy. 
42. If in the interval between any two Annual Meetings the place 
of any Officer or Ordinary Member of Council shall become vacant, 
the Council shall have power to fill such vacancy. 
B. Proceedings. 
43. The Council shall hold their Meetings at such times as they 
may appoint. 
44. Meetings may be called at any time by the President or by 
three other Members. 
45. Five Members shall constitute a quorum, and if within half 
an hour from the time appointed for the Meeting a quorum be not 
present, the Meeting shall be dissolved. 
46. In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents from 
any meeting, the Members shall choose one of their number to take 
the Chair, and such Member shall, for the time being, have all the 
authority and privileges of the President. 
47. The votes on any question before the Council shall be by 
show of hands, unless a ballot shall be demanded by any two Members. 
48. The decision of the majority of Members voting at any 
Meeting shall be considered as the decision of the Meeting. 
49. The Council may, from time to time, appoint any Fellows of 
the Society, whether Members of the Council or not, to be a Com- 
mittee to deal with any matter referred to it. Every such Committee 
shall conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the 
Council. 
50. No resolution of the Council shall be rescinded by a sub- 
sequent Meeting, unless notice of the intention to propose such 
rescission shall have been sent to the Members one week prior to the 
subsequent Meeting. 
51. The common seal of the Society shall not be affixed to any 
document, except at a meeting of the Council and pursuant to a 
resolution duly passed thereat ; and such document shall then be 
signed by the President, Vice-President, or other Chairman of such 
meeting, and by one of the Secretaries. 
52. At the commencement of each year the Council shall prepare 
a Beport on the affairs of the Society for the preceding year. 
53. The Society shall not make any dividend, gift, division, or 
bonus unto or between any of its Members. 
