902 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Article 7. Diplomas signed by the President and the Vice- 

 President of the Class to which the member belongs, and countersigned 

 by the Secretaries, shall be given to all the Fellows and Foreign 

 Honorary Members. 



Article 8. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, 

 any Fellow or Foreign Honorary Member shall have rendered himself 

 unworthy of a place in the Academy, the Council shall recommend to 

 the Academy the termination of his membership ; and if three fourths 

 of the Fellows present, out of a total attendance of not less than fifty, 

 at a Stated Meeting, or at a Special Meeting called for the purpose, 

 shall adopt this recommendation, his name shall be stricken from the 

 Roll. 



See Chap, iii.; chap. vi. art. 1; chap. ix. art. 1, 7; chap. x. art. 2. 



CHAPTER HI 



Election of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members 



Article 1. Elections of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members 

 shall be by ballot, and only at the Stated Meetings in January and 

 May. Three fourths of the ballots cast, and not less than twenty, 

 must be affirmative to effect an election. 



Article 2. Nominations to Fellowship or Foreign Honorary 

 Membership in any Section must be signed by two Fellows in that 

 Section. These nominations shall be sent to the Corresponding 

 Secretary accompanied by statements of qualifications and brief 

 biographical data, and shall be retained by him until the first of the 

 following October or February, as the case may be. All nominations 

 then in his hands shall be sent in printed form to every Fellow having 

 the right to vote, with the names of the proposers in each case, and 

 with a request to send to the Corresponding Secretary written com- 

 ments on these names not later than the fifth of November or the 

 fifth of March respectively. 



All the nominations, with the comments thereon, received up to the 

 fifth of November or the fifth of March shall be referred at once to 

 the appropriate Class Committees, which shall report their decisions 

 to the Council at a special meeting to be called to consider nom- 

 inations, not later than two days before the meeting of the Academy in 

 December or April respectively. 



Notice shall be sent to every Fellow having the right to vote, not 

 later than the fifteenth of September or January, of each year, calling 



