Present: The President (Brig. Anselm Dorrington), the Secretary, and thirty-eight Fellows. (For attendance list see Schedule A; for the schedule of disputes regarding the attendance list see Schedule B.)

Apologies: Eleven received. Five contained typographical errors. Two were submitted in pencil. The Chair ruled, after consultation, that the pencilled apologies were inadmissible. The Chair was overruled by the Secretary, on a point of order. The pencilled apologies were admitted. The Chair noted the matter for the President's attention; the Chair was the President.

Minutes of the previous meeting: Read by the Secretary. Disputed by Mrs Foulkes (#00264a). Mrs Foulkes had also disputed the minutes at the previous meeting, in their reading by the same Secretary. The Secretary observed that Mrs Foulkes had disputed the minutes of every meeting in 1962 to date. Mrs Foulkes confirmed that this was so. The dispute was minuted as such; the substance of the dispute was deferred to the Errors Committee, which had not, at the time of writing, met since 1958.

Item 1. The Vocative case in modern English correspondence. The Chair invited Prof. Maud Blandford (#00270) to introduce the motion. Prof. Blandford spoke for one hour and twelve minutes. At the conclusion of her remarks, the Chair invited the seconder. The seconder, Mr Wedderburn (#00299), rose, was recognised, and was about to speak when Mrs Foulkes raised a point of order regarding the placement of the comma in Mr Wedderburn's name on the order paper. The point was upheld. The order paper was withdrawn for amendment. The meeting adjourned for fifteen minutes.

Item 1, continued. Meeting reconvened. Mr Wedderburn rose. The Chair recognised him. Mrs Foulkes raised a further point of order: the order paper, as amended, had introduced a hyphen which was, in her view, redundant. The point was upheld. The order paper was withdrawn for further amendment. The meeting adjourned for a further fifteen minutes.

Item 1, continued. Meeting reconvened. Mr Wedderburn rose. The Chair recognised him. Mr Wedderburn observed that the time was now 9.42 p.m. and that he had forgotten the substance of his remarks. The Chair invited him to confer with Prof. Blandford. Prof. Blandford had departed.

Item 1, deferred. The motion was deferred to the next Extraordinary Meeting.

Any Other Business. None of substance.

Date of next meeting: Tuesday, 30th October, 7.00 p.m. The Curator's note: this was the eighteenth Extraordinary Meeting of 1962. There would, in time, be one more.