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of the cabinets. Each Curator shall have his particular depart- 

 ment allotted to him when elected. All regulations made by the 

 Curators shall be reported to the Council, and approved of by the 

 Academy, before such regulations shall come into operation. 



6. The Curator having charge of any division of the collection, 

 shall alone be authorized to select duplicate specimens from such 

 division for the purpose of exchange or donation ; but no ex- 

 change or donation shall be made, except such as is authorized by 

 a vote of the Society. 



7. The increase and improvement of the collections being the 

 inducement to exchange, it shall be the duty of the Curators to 

 report to the Society all such opportunities to exchange as would 

 favor this object. 



Chapter V. — Of the Council. 



1. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Acad- 

 emy, shall hold the same offices in the Council. In the absence 

 of any of them, officers /r<7 tempore may be appointed. 



2. The Council shall meet at least once a month, within ten 

 days preceding the regular business meeting of the Academy. 

 Minutes shall be kept of its proceedings, which may be called for 

 at any business meeting, upon a vote of the Academy. Matters 

 of a strictly personal nature, however, need not be entered on the 

 minutes of the Council. 



3. Five members of the Council, a majority of whom shall be 

 fellows, shall constitute a quorum ; but the Council may appoint 

 an Executive Committee, or business may be transacted at a regu- 

 larly called meeting of the Council at which less than a quorum is 

 present, subject to the written approval of a majority of the Coun- 

 cil, subsequently given to the Secretary, and recorded by him with 

 the minutes. 



4. The Council shall prepare all business referred to it by the 

 Academy, and may present any other business at its discretion. It 

 shall frame its own rules and regulations, and determine the time 

 and place of its meetings. 



5. The Council shall organize within itself a Committee on 

 Nominations, a Committee on Publication, and a Committee on 

 the Library, to whom, in the intervals of the meetings of the 

 Council, all matters pertaining to these several subjects shall be 

 referred. Their action shall always be subject to the revision of 

 the Council. The names of the persons composing these com- 

 mittees shall be kept publicly posted in the rooms of the Academy. 



6. All business prepared by the Council shall be presented to 

 the Academy by the Recording Secretary, or, in his absence, by 

 some other officer of the Council. But the Council may decline 

 to present business at any meeting at which a majority of those 

 present shall not be fellows. 



