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LAWS. 
a Special Meeting convened under the last law, and in either case 
after fourteen days' notice to each Member specifying the nature of 
the proposed alteration, one-half of the Lecturing Members being 
required to constitute a Special Meeting competent for the purpose. 
LECTURES. 
52. On the first Thursday in October the session shall commence 
with an address from the President, or an}- retrospects of the 
progress of Science, Literature, or Art, or a lecture. 
53. Controversial Theology, Practical Medicine, and the Political 
Topics of the day, are excluded from the lectures and discussions. 
54. Every Lecturer is required to prepare a summary of his 
intended lecture, which shall be read at the meeting preceding 
that at which the lecture is to be delivered, and also at the 
commencement of the lecture. 
55. Every Lecturer shall have the privilege of introducing 
gratuitously, on the evening of his lecture, six persons, provided 
the same persons be not so admitted oftener than three times during 
the session. 
56. Papers by Honorary or Corresponding Members may be read 
by the authors, or by any Member selected by them for the purpose. 
57. Unpublished papers or essays by persons not members of the 
Society, must be read by the Author or by a Lecturing Member. 
DISCUSSIONS. 
58. Immediately on the close of a lecture the summary of its 
contents shall be read, when the Society shall proceed to the 
discussion of it, after which the summary of the next lecture 
shall be read. 
59. The speakers shall stand whilst speaking, and address them- 
selves to the Chairman. 
No dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money shall or may be 
divided or made between any of the Members of the Society. 
