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Pe FIOLOCGICAL FOURN AZ. 
Vor, 1. -SEPTEMBER, 1890. No. 7. 
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CON STITUTION 
OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
The proposed amendment, if adopted, will in time bring the so- _ 
ciety into line with the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. It is substantially the same as the principle set forth in- 
the circular of that great organization, issued preliminary to their 
meeting at Indianapolis in August of the present year: 
“Any person interested in science and advanced education can become a member _ 
of the Association on being proposed by two members and elected by the Council. 
From the members nominations are made for fellows, who must be persons who are __ 
professionally engaged in science, or who have by their labors advanced some branch _ 
of science; and from the fellows the officers of the Association are elected. _ The ob- ey 
ject of this arrangement is to keep the management of the Association strictly in 
the hands of active workers in science, while at the same time the large number of 
_ persons interested in all that advanced education calls forth may feel that they are i 
welcome, and that the way is open to their election as fellows, if they belong to 
the group of advanced workers in any department of science.” 
‘The amendment applies of course, only to those who shall be 
. he safiet admitted; those who came into the society in earlier times, 
from a generous desire to help it'to a larger usefulness, and who, i 
‘not properly considered scientists, have imbibed. something of the 
spirit which animates them, will remain in full fellowship. 
_Ina very different relation to the society stand the large numb 
of persons now clamoring for admission. While the Academ 
truggling and poor, they stood aloof and stigmatized the mer 
“fossils” and “ cranks,” and playfully quoted * The Society 
Stanislaus;” now that its prosperity is assured, they 
: wrest by force ot numbers its contro 
