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to exist some misapprehension on this point: but whilst the Society of Western Artists will work as far as possible in friendly co-operation with local art clubs in matters concerning the advancement of Art interests, the Society can and only does recognize the individual Artist and expressly reserves itself the right to either elect him or reject him without any reference to the fact that some local club sends him as a delegate, unless he is sent by a local group of the members of this Society as one of their own number who is to represent them at our meeting.

The constitution of the Society requires careful revision by a competent committee.  It will have to be printed and furnished to the new Associates and is at present partly mixed with what are properly only the minutes of the organization of the Society.  The constitution of a Society, like ours, can only be the result of a gradual evolution, growing naturally out of the necessities and difficulties which the Society encounters in a new field.  The difficulties of carrying on debates by correspondence of widely separated members, the inevitable procrastination of some, the indifference of others,