Ordinary Meeting, 2009 May 27

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Ordinary Meeting, 2009 May 27

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 seventh meeting of the 119th Session and announced that the minutes of the previous meeting were on display at the back of the lecture theatre. He went on to announce that 47 new members were proposed for election, and those 57 new members who had been proposed at the previous meeting were approved by the audience and declared duly elected. Mr Nick James, Papers Secretary, reported that one paper had been approved for publication in the Journal:

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The President announced that the next Ordinary Meeting would be held as a part of the Association's Exhibition Meeting on Saturday June 27 at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. The next meeting to be held in Burlington House would be the Association's Annual General Meeting on October 28. In the meantime, the Variable Star Section would be holding its Annual Meeting at the University of Cardiff on June 13 and there would be an Out-of-London weekend at the University of Leeds over the weekend of September 4-6. Announcing a change to the advertised programme, the President then introduced the evening's first speaker, Mr Fraser Lewis, a PhD student at the University of Cardiff working on the Faulkes Telescope Project. The President expressed his gratitude to Mr Lewis for agreeing to present this talk in place of his PhD supervisor at short notice.