MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 163 



CONSTITUTION 



OF 



THE MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.* 



ARTICLE I. 

 This Society sliall be kiioAvn as ''The ^Michigan Academy op Science.^^ 



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ARTICLE II: Objects. 



The objects of this Academy shall be scientific research aud the diffu- 

 sion of knowledge concerning- the various departments of science. 



ARTICLE III: Membership. 



The Academy shall be composed of Resident Members, CoiTesponding 

 Memhers, Honorarji Afembers, Patrons and Affiliated Societies. 



1. Resident Members shall be persons Avho are interested in scientific 

 work and resident in the State of Michigan. 



2. Corresponding Members shall be pei'sons interested in science, and 

 not resident in the State of Michigan. 



3. Honorary Members shall be j^ersons distinguished for their attain- 

 ments in science, and not resident in the State of ^lichigan, and shall 

 not exceed twenty-five in number. 



4. Patrons shall be persons Avho have bestowed important favors upon 

 the Academy, as defined in Chapter I, Paragraph 4 of the By-Laws. 



5. Resident Members alone shall be entitled to vote and hold office in 

 the Academy. 



6. An affiliated society shall be a society accepted by the Council of 

 the Academy, subject to ratification by the Academy at its next regular 

 meeting as having as a principal object the promotion of scientific re- 

 search in some line or lines, or the diffusion of scientific results in 

 Michigan. Such a Society shall qualify as a member exactly as an 

 individual member and shall exercise its right of membership through a 

 delegate duly certified by the secretain- of said society. Said delegate 

 shall have all the rights of any resident member, except that the publi- 

 cations of the Academy shall be sent to the affiliated society as such 

 as long as the dues of said society are paid and the secretary of the 

 Academy not notified of the selection of a successor, and in case such 

 society contains not less than eight resident members of the Academy 

 such delegate shall ex-officio be a member of the Council of the Academy, 

 as hereafter provided. And hereafter in this constitution and by-laws 



*The history of the Academy will be found in the First Annual Report. 



