484 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Of Meetings. 



1. There shall be anuually four stated meetings of the Academy; 

 namely, on the day next preceding the last Wednesday in May (the 

 Annual Meeting), on the second Wednesday in October, on the second 

 Wednesday in January, and on the second Wednesday in March ; to 

 be held in the Hall of the Academy, in Boston. At these meetings 

 only, or at meetings adjourned from these and regularly notified, shall 

 appropriations of money be made, or alterations of the statutes or 

 standing votes of the Academy be effected. 



2. Fifteen Fellows shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 

 business at a stated meeting. Seven Fellows shall be sufficient to 

 constitute a meeting for scientific communications and discussions. 



3. The Recording Secretary shall notify the meetings of the Acad- 

 emy to each Fellow residing in Boston and the vicinity ; and he may 

 cause the meetings to be advertised, whenever he deems such further 

 notice to be needful. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Of the Election of Fellows and Honorary Members. 



1 . Elections shall be made by ballot, and only at stated meetings. 



2. Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be proposed 

 by two or more Resident Fellows, in a recommendation signed by 

 them, specifying the Section to which the nomination is made, which 

 recommendation shall be transmitted to the Corresponding Secretary, 

 and by him referred to the Council for Nomination. No person rec- 

 ommended shall be reported by the Council as a candidate for elec- 

 tion, unless he shall have received a written approval, signed at a 

 meeting of the Council by at least eight of its members. AH nomi- 

 nations thus approved shall be read to the Academy at a stated meet- 

 ing, and shall then stand on the nomination list during the interval 

 between two stated meetings, and until the balloting. No person 

 shall be elected a Resident Fellow, unless he shall have been resident 

 in this Commonwealth one year next preceding his election ; and any 

 Resident Fellow who shall remove his domicile from the Common- 

 wealth, shall be deemed to have abandoned his Fellowship. If any 



