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RULES OF THE EAST AFRICA AND 
(8) Communications from Members relating to business 
to be brought forward. 
16. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society for Scientific 
business shall be conducted as nearly as possible as follows : 
(1) Minutes of preceding Meeting to be read, confirmed, 
and signed by the Chairman. 
(2) Original papers or communications to be read and 
discussed and any exhibits to be submitted. 
(8) Names of new Members to be announced. 
17. A Special General Meeting may be called by the Com- 
mittee or at the written request of 20 Members and the date 
of same to be fixed by the Committee. 
18. It shall be the duty of the Honorary Secretary to 
conduct the correspondence of the Society, to attend the 
meetings and keep a record of the Minutes. 
19. The Honorary Treasurer shall be responsible for the 
funds of the Society, and the presentation of proper accounts, 
and the payment and collection of monies under the direction 
of the Committee. 
20. At such time as the funds of the Society may admit a 
periodic bulletin shall be issued by the Society containing such 
original communications by members or other articles which 
the Committee may consider desirable to publish. 
21. It shall be within the competence of the Committee 
to elect sub-committees to deal with any particular branch 
of business as the Committee may consider necessary. 
22. The Committee shall have the right to expel from the 
Society any member who is guilty of any misdemeanour which 
shall in the opinion of the Committee render him unfit to be a 
member. The intention of the Committee shall, however, be 
notified to the Member in writing, and he shall be asked if he 
wishes to submit any explanation in writing to the Committee 
before final action is taken. 
28. Arrangements for a meeting place for the Society shall 
rest with the Committee, and the Committee shall be empowered 
to authorise any necessary expenditure on this account. 
24. All donations to the Society’s Collection of Specimens 
and objects of scientific interest, books, photographs, &c., 
shall be the property of the Society, and shall be vested in the 
