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of the Society, and to deliberate thereon ; and to discuss and 
determine such matters as may be brought forward relative to 
the affairs of the Society ; also, to elect the Council and Officers 
for the ensuing year. 
2. The Council shall call a Special General Meeting of the 
Members and Associates, when it seems to them necessary, or 
when required to do so by requisition, signed by not less than 
ten Members and Associates, specifying the question intended 
to be submitted to such Meeting. Two weeks' notice must 
be given of any such Special General Meeting ; and only the 
subjects of which notice has been given shall be discussed 
thereat. 
3. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall usually be 
held on the first and third Monday evenings in each month, 
from November to June inclusive, or on such other evenings 
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 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 8 o'clock 
precisely, the minutes of the last Ordinary Meeting shall be 
read aloud by one of the Secretaries, and, if found correct, 
shall be signed by the Chairman ; the presents made to the 
Society since their last Meeting shall be announced ; the names 
of new Members and Associates shall be read ; 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 Chair- 
man to make any observations thereon which they may wish 
to offer. 
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 Rule has been departed from, in the printed 
Journal or Transactions of the Society. 
