Each Curator shall be requested to attend at the Monthly Meetings 
of the Members (as was formerly done), to examine and report 
upon the objects belonging to his department, which may have been 
received since the preceding Meeting. In case of unavoidable absence 
from ill health or other cause, a Curator may request another Member 
to supply his place. 
The Curators shall be requested to state to the Council, from time 
to time, whatever they may deem fit to mention or suggest in respect 
of the state of the Collections : as 
Their state of completeness or deficiency ; 
The manner in which they are exhibited; 
The state of nomenclature, &c. 
For the purpose of making such statements, they shall be empowered 
to attend the Monthly Council Meetings, due notice of the times of 
holding these Meetings being communicated to them. 
A reference may be made to them before the purchase of Books, 
Instruments, Natural or Artificial Curiosities, &c., for their opinion as 
to the suitableness of such purchases. 
The Curators shall be provided with personal Keys of the Cases in 
their departments, and are encouraged to explain the objects under their 
care to strangers of eminence who may be accredited to them for the 
purpose. 
