20. A General Meeting shall be held annually in January, to receive the report of the Council on the state of the Society, and to deliberate thereon; and to discuss and determine such matters as may be brought forward by the Council relative to the affairs of the Society. These propositions having been previously read as a whole shall then be considered paragraph by paragraph. Also, to elect the Officers for the ensuing year. The Chairman shall cause to be read the regulations relating to the Anniversary General Meetings; he shall cause to be distributed a sufficient number of balloting-lists, according to the Form No. 5 in the Appendix; and he shall appoint two or more Scrutineers, from among the Fellows present, to superintend the ballot during its progress, and to report the results to the Meeting: the ballot shall close at the expiration of one hour. No rule shall be altered unless two-thirds of the voters concur in the proposed change. 21. Each Fellow voting must deliver his balloting-list, folded up, to one of the Scrutineers, who shall immediately put it into the balloting-box. And the name of the Fellow so delivering his list shall be taken down by the Secretary, or by some person appointed to do so. [Sidenote: Special General Meetings.] 22. The Council shall call a Special General Meeting of the Society when it seems to them necessary, or when required by any ten Fellows so to do. 23. Every such requisition, duly signed by ten or more Fellows, must specify, in the form of a Resolution, the object intended to be submitted to the Meeting. 24. The requisition, the motion, and the notice of the Special Meeting, shall be suspended in the Library one week, and a copy sent to all Fellows one week previous to such Meeting; and at the Meeting, the discussion shall be confined to the object specified in the motion. [Sidenote: Ordinary General Meetings.] 25. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on Tuesdays in each month from November to June, both inclusive; and a printed card of such Meetings shall be delivered to each Fellow before the commencement of the session. 26. Business shall commence at Eight o’clock in the evening precisely, when the minutes of the preceding Ordinary Meeting shall be read. 27. At the Ordinary Meetings, the order of business shall be as follows:--The minutes of the last Meeting shall be real aloud by one of the Secretaries, and if found correct, shall be signed by the Chairman; the presents made to the Society since their last meeting shall be announced; communications shall be announced and read; after which, the persons present shall be invited by the Chairman to deliver aloud, from their places, their opinions on the communications which have been read, and on the specimens or drawings which have been exhibited at that meeting.