Ordinary Meeting, 2008 May 28

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Ordinary Meeting, 2008 May 28

held at the Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London SE1

Roger Pickard, President

Ron Johnson, Hazel Collett and Nick James, Secretaries

The President opened the sixth meeting of the 118th Session and invited Mrs Hazel Collett, Meetings Secretary, to read the minutes of the previous meeting, which were approved by the audience and duly signed. The President announced that 8 new members were proposed for election, and put to members the election of the 12 new members who had been proposed at the previous meeting; these were approved and declared duly elected. Mr Nick James, Papers Secretary, reported that seven papers had been approved for publication in the Journal:

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The President announced that the next Ordinary Meeting would be held during the Association's annual Exhibition Meeting on Saturday June 28 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. He then introduced the evening's first speaker, Prof. Paul Hewitt of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.