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RULES. 
1. The Society shall be called The Natural History and Science 
Society of Western Australia. 
2. The object of the Society shall be the study of Science in all its branches 
to be promoted by periodical meetings and field excursions, by the collection and 
preservation of specimens, by Lhe formation of a library and the publication of a 
journal. 
3. The Society shall consist of (3) Honorary Members, (b) Ordinary Members 
who may be Lite Members, and (c) Junior Members. Membership shall be open 
to both sexes. 
4. Honorary Members shall be persons not resident in Western Australia, who 
are distinguished for their attainments in and who have rendered signal service to 
Science. They shall be nominated and seconded by ordinary members and shall 
only be elected by the unanimous vote of those present at the meeting next fol- 
lowing that whereat they were nominated. They shall be entitled to all the 
privileges of membership except voting and shall be limited in number to twelve. 
5. (1) Ordinary Members shall be persons over the age of 21 years who are 
interested in the study of Science. (2) They shall be nominated and seconded in 
writing to the Council. Their nominations shall then be submitted at a meeLing 
of the Society, and they shall be ballotted for at the next following. (3) Three 
dissentient votes or J of those voting shall debar a candidate from admission to 
the Society and any such person so debarred from becoming a member shall not 
be renominated for a period of six months. 
6. Junior members shall be tinder the age of 21 years and their election shall 
be governed by the rules applying to ordinary members. They shall be entitled 
to all the privileges of membership except that of voting. 
7. Ordinary members shall pay an annual subscription of 10s 6d., or may 
become Life members on payment of ten guineas at any one time. Junior mem- 
bers shall pay an annual subscription of five shillings. 
8. The financial and business year of the Society shall begin on the 1st July, 
on which date all subscriptions for the ensuing year become due. 
9. The management of the Society shall be vested in a Council consisting of a 
President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and five ordinary mem- 
bers, all of whom shall be elected annually by the members of the Society at the 
Annual General Meeting. 
10. The Council shall have the control of all the properly of the Society, shall 
be responsible for the due observance of all the rules of the Society ; shall frame, 
rescind and alter Bye-laws, in accordance with these rules, and shall decide any 
matter not covered by the rules or Bye-laws; shall appoint from time to time from 
its ranks a Librarian’and Editors of the journal, and may by a two-thirds vote of 
the whole Council remove any name from the Members’ Roll, with or without 
assigning reasons for such action. 
