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The Society's Medal



12. —The Council (but not a committee of the Council) shall have power to

alter and add to the Rules, from time to time, in any manner they may think

fit. Five to form a quorum at any meeting of the Council.


13. —The Council shall have power to expel any Member from the Society

at any time without assigning any reason.


14. —Neither the office of Scrutineer nor that of Auditor shall be held for

two consecutive years by the same person.


15. —The Scrutineer shall not reveal to any person how any Member shall

have voted.



The Society’s Medal



RULES


The Medal may be awarded at the discretion of the Committee to any

Member who shall succeed in breeding, in the United Kingdom, any species of

bird which shall not be known to have been previously bred in captivity in Great

Britain or Ireland. Any Member wishing to obtain the Medal must send a detailed

account for publication in the Magazine within about eight weeks from the date

of hatching of the young, and furnish such evidence of the facts as the Executive

Committee may require. The Medal will be awarded only in cases where the

young shall live to be old enough to feed themselves, and to be wholly independent

of their parents. No medal can be given for the breeding of hybrids, or of local

races or sub-species of species that have already been bred.


The account of the breeding must be reasonably full so as to afford

instruction to our Members, and must appear in the Avicultural Magazine before

it is published or notified elsewhere. It should describe the plumage of the young,

and be of value as a permanent record of the nesting and general habits of the species .

These points will have great weight when the question of awarding the Medal

is under consideration.


In every case the decision of the Committee shall be final.


The Medal will be forwarded to each Member as soon after it shall have been

awarded as possible.



