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XVII.—Minutes "shall be kept of the proceedings at all Meetings of the Club
and of those at all Meetings of the Council, and the Minutes of each Meeting of
the Club (except Field Meetings) shall be read as the first business at the next
Meeting (other than a Field Meeting), whether Annual or Ordinary, of the Club.
And in like manner the Minutes of each Meeting o the Council shall be read at
the next Meeting of the Council.
XVIII.—At the Ordinary Meetings the following business shall be
transacted :—The Minutes of the last Meeting shall be read, and, if approved, con-
firmed ; contributions to the Club since the last Meeting announced ; Certificates
for new Members read ; Ballots tor new Members taken ; specimens exhibited,
and remarks made on the same ; communications and papers read and discussed,
and any other business which the Chairman or Secretary may think it desirable to
bring before the Meeting, transacted. After which the Meeting shall resolve
itself into a Conversazione.
XIX.—The Annual General Meeting shall be held in the month of March,
at which the Report of the Council on the affairs of the Club, and the Balance-
sheet duly signed by the Auditors (to be appointed as provided by Rule XX.),
shall be read. Printed lists of Members nominated for election as President,
Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant-Secretary, librarians, and Members of the
Council, having been distributed, and the Chairman having appointed two or
more Members to act as Scrutineers, the Meeting shall then proceed to ballot
for such elections. If from any cause these elections, or any of them, do not
take place at this Meeting, they shall be made at the next Ordinary Meeting of
the Club.
XX.—The accouuts of the Club shall be made up to the 31st December
in each year, and shall be audited by two Members, one to be appointed by
the Council and one by the Members at the Ordinary Meeting in November or
December.
XXI.—The Field Meetings shall be under the entire control of the Council,
who may appoint a Secretary or Secretaries for their arrangements and Lecturers,
and make such other arrangements as they may deem best for the comfort of the
Members and their friends.
XXII.—The copyright in, and the original copy of every paper, alter having
been read before the Club, shall be considered as the property of the Club, if
there shall be no engagement with its author to the contrary. But if the Club
shall decline or omit to publish any paper for six calendar months after it shall
have been read before the Club, such paper and the copyright therein shall remain
and be the property of the author, the Club, however, having the right to take
and retain for its own use one or more copy or copies of such paper. And the
non-publication by the Club or any such paper for the period above-mentioned
shall constitute or be sufficient evidence of an engagement to the effect
above-mentioned with the author of the paper.
XXIII.—The publications of the Club shall be printed at such times and in
such manner as the Council shall direct.
XXIV.—The Club shall strongly discourage the practice of removing rare
plants from the localities where they are to be found or of which they are
characteristic, and of risking the extermination of birds and other animals by
wanton persecution ; and shall use its influence with landowners and others for
the protection of the same, and to dispel the prejudices which are leading to their
destruction. The rarer botanical specimens collected at the Field Meetings shall