444 HON. MEMBERS, &c. OF THE CAMB. PHIL. SOCIETY.

POST OFFICE.

The POST OFFICE is open every morning at half-past seven from the 6th of March to the 5th of November, and at eight o'clock from the 5th of November to the 6th of March. It closes for the morning mail at a quarter past ten A.M.; for the evening cross mail at nine; and for the London mail at ten o'clock at night.

N.B. The Post Office is in Sidney Street.

CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY For the Encouragement of the Study of History, Architecture, and Antiquities.

COUNCIL, Elected May 29, 1848.

President.

The Rev. ROBERT PHELPS, D.D., Master of Sidney Sussex College.

Treasurer.

Charles Cardale Babington, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., St. John's

College.

Secretary.

The Rev. William Reynolds Collett, M.A., Caius College.

Council.

The Rev. George Elwes Corrie, B.D. St. Catharine's Hall,
Norrisian Professor.

The Rev. Christopher Hand Bennett, M.A. Trinity College.
Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, M.A., St. Catharine's Hall.
The Rev. David James Stewart, M.A. Trinity College.
The Rev. Robert Willis, M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor.
The Rev. Edward Ventris, M.A., St. Peter's College.
The Rev. John Hailstone, M.A., Trinity College.

The Rev. Charles John Ellicott, M.A., St. John's College.
The Rev. Charles Hardwick, M.A., St. Catharine's Hall.
Frederic Thackeray, M.D., Emmanuel College.

The Rev. Joseph Power, M.A., Clare Hall, University
Librarian.

The Rev. John James Smith, M.A., Caius College.

LAWS.

I. THAT the Society be for the encouragement of the study of History, Architecture, and Antiquities; and that such Society be called "THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY."

II. That the object of the Society be to collect and to print information relative to the above-mentioned subjects.

III. That the subscription of each Member of the Society be One Guinea annually; such subscription to be due on the first day of January in each year: on the payment of which he shall become entitled to all the Publications of the Society, during the current year,

IV. That any person who is desirous of becoming a Member of the Society, be proposed by two Members, at any of the ordinary Meetings of the Society, and ballotted for at the next Meeting: but all Noblemen, Bishops, and Heads of Colleges, shall be ballotted for at the Meeting at which they are proposed.

V. That the management of the affairs of the Society be vested in a Council, consisting of a President, (who shall not be eligible for that office for more than two successive years,) a Treasurer, a Secretary, and not more than twelve nor less than seven other Members, to be elected from amongst the Members of the Society who are graduates of the University. Each Member of the Council shall have due notice of the Meetings of that body, at which not less than five shall constitute a quorum.

VI. That the President, Treasurer, and Secretary, and at least three ordinary Members of the Council, shall be elected annually by ballot, at a General Meeting to be held in the month of May; the three senior ordinary Members of the Council to retire annally.

VII. That no Member be entitled to vote at any General Meeting whose subscription is in arrear.

VIII. That, in the absence of the President, the Council at their Meetings shall elect a Chairman, such Chairman having a casting-vote in case of equality of numbers, and retaining also his right to vote upon all questions submitted to the Council.

IX. That the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Society be audited annually by two auditors, to be elected at the Annual General Meeting; and that an abstract of such accounts be printed for the use of the Members.

X.-That the object of the usual Meetings of the Society be, to read communications, acknowledge presents, and transact miscellaneous business.

XI. That the Meetings of the Society take place once at least during each term and that the place of Meeting and all other arrangements, not specified in the Laws, be left to the discretion of the Council.

XII. That any Member be allowed to compound for his future subscriptions by one payment of Ten Guineas.

XIII.-That Members of the Society be allowed to propose Honorary Members, provided that no person so proposed be either resident within the County of Cambridge, or a Member of the University.

XIV. That Honorary Members be proposed by at least two Members of the Society, at any of the usual Meetings of the Society, and ballotted for at the next Meeting.

XV. That nothing shall be published by the Society, which has not been previously approved by the Council, nor without the author's name being appended to it.

XVI. That no alteration be made in these Laws, except at the Annual General Meeting or at a Special General Meeting called for that purpose, of which at least one week's notice shall be given to all the Members; and that one month's notice of any proposed alteration be communicated, in writing, to the Secretary, in order that he may make the same known to all the Members of the Society.

It is requested that all Communications intended for the Society and the names of Candidates for admission, be forwarded to the Secretary, Caius College, or to the Treasurer, St. John's College.

Subscriptions received by the Treasurer, or by his Bankers, Messrs. Mortlock and Son, Cambridge; or at the Bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, London, "To the Cambridge Antiquarian Society's account with Messrs. Mortlock and Son, Cambridge."