October 16, 1876. 



C. V. Riley, President, in the chair. 



Eleven members present. 



Judge Holmes, chairman of the Committee to whom was in- 

 trusted the work of devising means for the promotion of the study 

 of Archaeology, reported the following amendment to the Consti- 

 tution, under which a Section on Archaeology could be organized : 

 Article VII. — Of Sections. 



Section i. To encourage and promote special investigations in any 

 branch of science, members of the Academy may form sections, which 

 shall be constituted as herein provided. 



Sec. 2. For the formation of a section, written application shall be 

 made to the Academy, at a regular meeting, by not less than six active 

 members. On the approval of this application, by the affirmative votes of 

 two-thirds of the members present at the next regular meeting, the section 

 shall be established, and the names of the petitioners shall be recorded on 

 the minutes as its founders. 



Sec. 3. Sections may increase the number of their members by elec- 

 tion, and may also appoint correspondents ; but only members and corre- 

 spondents of the Academy shall be elected members or correspondents of 

 any of its sections. 



Sec 4. The officers of each section shall be a chairman, a secretary, 

 and a curator, who shall be elected by its members at the first meeting of 

 the section, and subsequently at the first meeting in January of each year. 



Sec 5. The collections and books of each section are the common 

 property of the Academy. Donations of books and specimens made to or 

 for any section, shall be received as donations to the Academy for the use 

 of that section. 



Sec 6. A report of the proceedings of each section shall be submitted 

 to the Academy at least once every month. Papers read before any sec- 

 tion with a view to publication by the Academy, shall take the same course 

 as papers read before the Academy. 



Sec 7. On all points not herein provided for, each section shall be 

 governed by the constitution, by-laws, orders, and usages of the Academy. 



Judge Holmes also presented the following resolutions, which 

 were unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Academy of Science has learned with profound 

 regret of the decease of Moses M. Pallen, M.D., one of the founders of 

 the Academy, and for twenty years an active and worthy member, who 

 departed this life, in this city, on the 24th of September last, in the sixty- 

 seventh year of his age, and that we desire in this manner to record our 

 respect for the memory of our lamented associate. Dr. Pallen was born in 

 King and Queen's County, in the State of Virginia, in 1S10, and graduated 



