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hold office in the Academy or serve on the Standing Committees or 

 vote at meetings. 



Article 6. Fellows who pay or have commuted the Annual Dues 

 and Foreign Honorary Members shall be entitled to receive gratis one 

 copy of all Publications of the Academy issued after their election. 



See Chap, x, art. 2. 



Article 7. Diplomas signed by the President and the Vice- 

 President of the Class to which the member belongs, and countersigned 

 by the Secretaries, shall be given to Foreign Honorary Members and 

 to Fellows on request. 



Article 8. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, 

 any Fellow or Foreign Honorary Member shall have rendered himself 

 unworthy of a place in the Academy, the Council shall recommend 

 to the Academy the termination of his membership; and if three 

 fourths of the Fellows present, out of a total attendance of not less 

 than fifty at a Stated Meeting, or at a Special Meeting called for the 

 purpose, shall adopt this recommendation, his name shall be stricken 

 from the Roll. 



See Chap, iii.; chap. vi. art. 1; chap, ix, art. 1, 7; chap. x. art. 2. 



CHAPTER III 



Election of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members 



The procedure in the election of Fellows and Foreign Honorary 

 Members shall be as follows : 



Nominations to Fellowship or Foreign Honorary Membership in any 

 Section must be signed by two Fellows of that Section or by three 

 Fellows of any Sections, and sent to the Corresponding Secretary ac- 

 companied by a statement of the qualifications of the nominee and 

 brief biographical data. 



Notice shall be sent to every Fellow not later than the fifteenth of 

 January in each year, reminding him that all nominations must be in 

 the hands of the Corresponding Secretary before the fifteenth of Feb- 

 ruary following. 



A list of the nominees, giving a brief account of each, with the names 



