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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 
or Intermediate Meeting shall be read aloud by one of the 
Secretaries, and, if found correct, shall be signed by the Chair- 
man ; 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 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 or Inter- 
mediate Meetings, either as introductory lectures upon subjects 
proper to be afterwards discussed, or as the results of discus- 
sions 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 not necessarily printed nor the discussions re- 
ported,* 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. 
