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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 for- 
warded 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. - 
6. The Council may at their discretion authorize Papers of 
a general kind to be read at any of the Ordinary 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. At the Ordinary Meetings no question relating to the 
Rules or General Management of the affairs of the Society 
shall be introduced, discussed or determined. 
§ V. Bye-Laws (Council Meetings). 
1. The Council shall meet at least once every month from 
November to June inclusive, or in any other month and on 
such days as they may deem expedient. And the President or 
any three members of the Council may at any time call a 
Special Meeting, to which the whole Council shall be sum- 
moned. 
