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" Chapter III. — Of Nominations of Officers. 



"1. At the stated meeting in March the President shall appoint 

 from the next retiring Councillors a Nominating Committee of three 

 Fellows, one for each Class. 



"2. It shall be the duty of this Nominating Committee to prepare a 

 list of candidates for the offices of President, Vice-Presidents, Corre- 

 sponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, Coun- 

 cillors, and the Standing Committees which are chosen by ballot ; and 

 to cause this list to be sent by mail to all the Resident Fellows of 

 the Academy not later than four weeks before the Annual Meeting. 



" 3. Independent nominations for any office, signed by at least five 

 Resident Fellows and received by the Recording Secretary not less 

 than ten days before the Annual Meeting, shall be inserted in the 

 call for the Annual Meeting, which shall then be issued not later 

 than one week before that meeting. 



" 4. The Recording Secretary shall prepare for use in voting at the 

 Annual Meeting a ballot containing the names of all persons nomi- 

 nated for office under the provisions given above. 



" 0. When an office is to be filled at any other time than at the An- 

 nual Meeting, the President shall appoint a Nominating Committee, in 

 accordance with the provisions of Section 1, which shall announce its 

 nomination in the manner prescribed in Section 2 at least two weeks 

 before the time of election. Independeb„, nominations, signed by at 

 least five Resident Fellows, and received by the Recording Secretary 

 not later tlian one week before the meeting for election, shall be inserted 

 in the call for that meeting." 



Chapter III. of the present Statutes, Section 1, change the word 

 "Vice-President" to "Senior Vice-President present," and insert 

 at the end of the section, " Length of continuous membership in the 

 Academy shall determine the seniority of the Vice-Presidents." 



C. L. Jackson, 



S. H. SCUDDER, 



F. W. Putnam, 



Committee. 



The following report was presented and adopted : — 



Report of the Committee to consider the Circular of the Royal Society 

 in regard to a Catalogue of Scientific Publications. 



The Committee finds itself fully in sympathy with the desire of 

 the Royal Society to improve the methods of cataloguing scientific 



