462 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



memoirs submitted to the Academy shall be referred, and to whom 

 the printing of memoirs accepted for jmblication shall be intrusted. 



5. Tbe Committee on the Library, of three Fellows, who shall 

 examine the Library, and make an annual report on its condition 

 and management. 



6. An Auditing Committee, of two Fellows, for auditing the 

 accounts of the Treasurer. 



CHAPTER Y. 



Of the Secretaries. 



1. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspond- 

 ence of the Academy, recording or making an entry of all letters 

 written in its name, and preserving on file all letters which are 

 received; and at each meeting he shall present the letters which 

 have been addressed to the Academy since tbe last meeting. With 

 the advice and consent of the President, he may effect exchanges 

 with other scientific associations, and also distribute copies of the 

 publications of the Academy among the Associate Fellows and For- 

 eign Honorary Members, as shall be deemed expedient; making 

 a report of his proceedings at the Annual Meeting. Under the 

 direction of the Council for Nomination, he shall keep a list of 

 the Fellows, Associate Fellows, and Foreign Honorary Members, 

 arranged in their Classes and in Sections in respect to the special 

 sciences in which they are severally proficient; and he shall act 

 as secretary to the Council. 



2. The Recording Secretary shall have charge of the Charter 

 and Statute-book, journals, and all literary papers belonging to the 

 Academy. He shall record the proceedings of the Academy at its 

 meetings; and after each meeting is duly opened, he shall read the 

 record of the preceding meeting. He shall notify the meetings of 

 the Academy, and apprise committees of their appointment. He 

 shall post up in the Hall a list of the persons nominated for elec- 

 tion into the Academy; and when any individual is chosen, he 

 shall insert in the record the names of the Fellows by whom he 

 was nominated. 



3. The two Secretaries, with the Chairman of the Committee of 

 Publication, shall have authority to publish such of the proceedings 

 of the Academy as may seem to them calculated to promote the 

 interests of science. 



