STATUTES AND STANDING VOTES. 



STATUTES. 



Adopted May 30, 1854: amended September 8, 1857, November 12, 1862, May 

 24, 1864, November 9, 1870, May 27, 1873, January 26, 1876, June 16, 

 1886, October 8, 1890, January 11 and May 10, 1893, May 9 and October 

 10, 1894, MircA 13, April 10 and May 8, 1895, May 8, 1901, and January 

 8, 1902. 



CHAPTER I. 



Op Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. 



1. The Academy consists of Resident Fellows, Associate Fellows and 

 Foreign Honorary Members. They are arranged in three Classes, 

 according to the Arts and Sciences in which they are severally proficient, 

 viz. : Class I. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences ; — Class II. 

 The Natural and Physiological Sciences ; — Class III. The Moral and 

 Political Sciences. Each Class is divided into four Sections, viz. : 

 Class I., Section 1. Mathematics and Astronomy ; — Section 2. Physics; 

 — Section 3. Chemistry ; — Section 4. Technology and Engineering. 

 Class II., Section 1. Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe ; — 

 Section 2. Botany ; — Section 3. Zoology and Physiology ; — Section 4. 

 Medicine and Surgery. Class III., Section 1. Philosophy and Juris- 

 prudence : — Section 2. Philology and Archeology ; — Section 3. 

 Political Economy and History; — Section 4. Literature and the Fine 

 Arts. 



2. The number of Resident Fellows shall not exceed two hundred. 

 Only residents in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be eligible 

 to election as Resident Fellows, but resident fellowship may be retained 

 after removal from the Commonwealth. Each Resident Fellow shall 

 pay an admission fee of ten dollars and such annual assessment, not ex- 

 ceeding ten dollars, as shall be voted by the Academy at each annual 



