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Publications.
XIX.—The publications of the Club shall be printed at
such times and in such manner as the Council shall
direct.
Preservation
of Natural
Objects and
Antiquities.
XX.—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 perse-
cution ; 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 be
such as can be gathered without disturbing the roots of the
plants, and notes of the habits of birds shall be recorded
instead of collecting specimens either of the birds or of their
eggs. In like manner the Club shall endeavour to cultivate
a fuller knowledge of local antiquities, historical, popular, and
idiomatic, and to promote a taste for carefully preserving the
monuments of the past from wanton injury. [This rule is not
intended to restrict the judicious collecting of specimens by
individual members necessary for their studies.]
Judicious
Collecting.
Copyright XXI.—The copyright in, and the original copy of every
of Papers, paper, after 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 of 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.
MS. of [It is recommended that every paper which is to be read
Papers, before the Club should be written on foolscap paper, on one
side only, with a margin of one inch on each side of
the MS.]