as the Council may determine to be convenient : and a printed card of 
the Meetings for each Session shall be forwarded to each Member and 
Associate. 
4. At the Ordinary and Intermediate Meetings the order of proceeding 
shall be as follows : The President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, or a 
Member of the Council, shall take the chair at 4.30 o’clock precisely, the 
minutes of the last Ordinary or Intermediate Meeting shall be read aloud 
by one of the Secretaries, and, if found correct, shall be signed by the 
Chairman ; the names of new Members and Associates shall be read ; the 
presents made to the Society since their last Meeting shall be announced ; 
and any other communications which the Council think desirable shall be 
made to the Meeting. After which, the Paper or Papers intended for 
the evening’s discussion shall be announced and read, and the persons 
present shall be invited by the Chairman to make any observations 
thereon which they may wish to offer. 
The claims of Members and Associates to take part in a discussion 
are prior to those of Visitors. The latter when desiring to speak 
upon any Paper, must first send their cards to the Chairman and 
ask permission (unless they have been specially invited by the 
Council “to attend, and join in considering the subject before 
the Meeting,” or are called upon by the Chairman). 1875. 
5. The Papers read before the Society, and the discussions thereon 
fully reported, shall be printed by order of the Council ; or, if not, the 
Council shall, if they see fit, state the grounds upon which this Pule has 
been departed from, in the printed Journal or Transactions of the Society. 
6. The Council may at their discretion authorise Papers of a general 
kind to be read at any of the Ordinary or Intermediate Meetings, either 
as introductory lectures upon subjects proper to be afterwards discussed, 
or as the results of discussions which have taken place, in furtherance of 
the 5th Object of the Society (§ I.). 
7. With respect to Intermediate Meetings, the Papers read at which 
are nbt necessarily printed nor the discussions reported,* the Council at 
its discretion may request any lecturer or author of a Paper to be read 
thereat, previously to submit an outline of the proposed method of 
treating his subject. 
* So arranged when the “ Intermediate Meetings ” were commenced, 
16th January, 1871. 
