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Mr. Syle moved that the Council be invited to consider the desirability of making the meetings at Tokiô monthly, and added that it might be a question whether it would not be well to have a Local Secretary.
Sir Harry Parkes thought this was much too important a matter to be left to the Council. The Annual General Meeting to receive accounts &c., would shortly be held, and he considered that this would present a suitable opportunity for the discussion of this question.
M. Aston suggested that the advertisement of the meetings should also state the heads of the questions to be brought forward.
Mr. Ayrton repeated the suggestion he made last year that notice of the meeting should be printed on post cards and sent to every member.
Sir Harry Parkes said that the Council had considered this suggestion, which was a very excellent one, but that besides the labour of having 150 post cards addressed there was the question of what it would cost to have them printed. The Society is neither numerous nor rich. The members of the German Society pay $10 entrance and $25 a year, while those of this Society pay no entrance fee and only $5 a year.
Dr. Murray thought that the time had arrived to increase the subscription. He considered it impossible and absurd to attempt to carry on this Society with a subscription of only $5. He therefore proposed that in future the subscription be fixed at $10.
Mr. Aston seconded this motion, which will be brought before the Annual Meeting already referred to.
Some discussion then took place about the date of the next Meeting, but it was decided not to change it from the fixed date, namely 14th July.
The Meeting then adjourned.