BY-LAWS. 



Chapter l.—Of Members and Fellows. 



1. Persons elected to resident membership shall pay their initiation 

 fees within three months from date of election, or said election shall 

 be void. No member in arrears shall be eligible as a fellow. 



2. A resident member or fellow removing from the city, and not 

 in arrears, may become a corresponding' member; and a corre- 

 sponding member who removes to the city may become a resident 

 member on paying' the initiation fee. The Recording- and Corre- 

 sponding- Secretaries shall have power to arrange the transfer, and 

 shall notify the Treasurer. 



3. Only persons engaged in the pursuit of some branch of science 

 shall be eligible to corresponding membership. 



Chapter II. — Of Original Subscriptions. 



1. Every holder (whetlier original subscriber, transferee, or lega- 

 tee) of a receipt for the sum of one hundred dollars, paid into the 

 treasury of the New York Lyceum of Natural History towards the 

 liquidation of the debt incurred by the erecting of the building 

 formerly the property of the Lyceum, in Broadway, in this city, 

 shall be entitled for himself and his family to free admission to such 

 public lectaves as may be delivered on its behalf, which the members 

 have a right to attend. He shall be entitled to the use of the books 

 of the Library, in accordance with the regulations of the Academy. 



Chapter III. — Of Patrons and Life- Members. 



1. Any person, by contributing, at one time, two hundred and 

 fifty dollars to the fund for the general purposes of the Academy, 

 becomes a patron, and shall, during life, be entitled to the same 

 privileges as an original subsci'iber, and shall be entitled to one 

 copy of all the publications of the Academy appearing subsequent 

 to the date of the payment. 



