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until the expiration of a month after their receipt; such byelaw being, in the opinion 
of the Member in question, an infringement of the privileges of Membership under 
Rule 14c. 
“ It is obvious that, although the Rule 14e does not actually define the power of 
the Council to prescribe restrictive regulations as to the issue of ordinary books and 
periodicals, the spirit of the Rule, in conjunction with Rule 48 a, is, that the Council 
are to frame such regulations as seem to them desirable for the proper management of 
the Library, in the interests of the Society. 
“ The Council have under consideration the desirability of reducing the time that 
weekly periodicals shall remain on the Library table, to a fortnight. They would, how¬ 
ever, remind Members that the Society’s Library is essentially a Library of reference. 
The Society have not the means, nor is it an object, to make it fulfil the functions of a 
Circulating Library or Book Club. The Council are desirous of furthering the conve¬ 
nience of Members as far as possible in making use of the Library; but, in view of the 
great risk of loss that is run in letting out unbound numbers of serial periodicals and 
scientific Journals, and the difficulty of replacing many of them, if lost, the Council are 
of opinion that the facilities for taking such from the Library should be restricted as 
far as possible.” 
In reply to questions from some of the members present as to whether 
it was to be inferred from the last paragraph of the Notice that the Council 
proposed to restrict the privileges of members in taking books and periodi¬ 
cals from the Library, the Chairman explained that the Council had no such 
intention, that the object of the paragraph was to remind Members of the 
Society that their Library was distinctively one of reference, and that there¬ 
fore it was of the highest importance to preserve their series of scientific 
journals as jserfect as possible, and to appeal to Members to bear this in mind 
in making use of the Library, because the breaks in series caused by the 
losses that would probably be entailed upon the Library by attempting to 
use it as a Look Club greatly impaired the special value of the Library 
and were exceedingly difficult to make good. 
After some discussion, the meeting unanimously approved of the 
proposed amendment. 
The Council announced that Mr. J. C. Douglas had been appointed 
a member of the Finance Committee and Major H. S. Jarrett of the Philo¬ 
logical Committee. 
The Secretary reported that Mr. W. A. Bion had been confirmed in 
his appointment as Assistant Secretary. 
Dr. Hoebnle exhibited and described four coins, kindly presented to the 
Society by F. S. Growse, Esq., Magistrate of Bulandshahar. They were 
