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Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at 

 the city of Albany, this eighth day of April, in the year one thousand nine 

 hundred and two. 



John T. McDonough, 



Secretary of State. 



CONSTITUTION. 



Adopted, April 24, 1902, and Amended at Subsequent Times. 



Article I. The name of this Corporation shall be The New York 

 Academy of Sciences. Its objects shall be the advancement and diffusion 

 of scientific knowledge, and the center of its activities shall be in the City of 

 New York. 



Article II. The Academy shall consist of five classes of members, 

 namely: Active Members, Fellows, Associate Members, Corresponding 

 Members and Honorary Members. Active Members shall be the members 

 of the Corporation who live in or near the City of New York, or who, ha\ang 

 removed to a distance, desire to retain their connection with the Academy. 

 Fellows shall be chosen from the Active Members in virtue of their scientific 

 attainments. Corresponding and Honorary Members shall be chosen from 

 among the men of science of the world who have attained distinction as 

 investigators. The number of Corresponding Members shall not exceed 

 two hundred, and the number of Honorary Members shall not exceed fifty. 



x\rticle III. None but Fellows and Active Members who have paid 

 their dues up to and including the last fiscal year shall be entitled to vote or 

 to hold office in the Academy. 



Article IV. The officers of the Academy shall be a President, as many 

 Vice-Presidents as there are sections of the Academy, a Corresponding 

 Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, a Librarian, an Editor, six 

 elected Councilors and one additional Councilor from each allied society 

 or association. The annual election shall be held on the third Monday in 

 December, the officers then chosen to take office at the first meeting in 

 January following. 



There shall also be elected at the same time a Finance Committee of three. 



Article V. The officers named in Article IV shall constitute a Council, 

 which shall be the executive body of the Academy with general control over 

 its affairs, including the power to fill ad interim any vacancies that may 

 occur in the offices. Past Presidents of the Academy shall be ex-officio 

 members of the Council. 



Article VI. Societies organized for the study of any branch of science 



