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MEMBEESHIP. 



Members are classified as active members, correspond- 

 ing members, honorary members and patrons. Active 

 membership is limited to persons interested in science, 

 though they need not of necessity be engaged in scientific 

 work, and they alone conduct the affairs of the Academy, 

 under its constitution. Persons not living in the city or 

 county of St. Louis who are disposed to further the 

 objects of the Academy, by original researches, contribu- 

 tions of specimens, or otherwise, are eligible as corre- 

 sponding members. Persons not living in the city or 

 county of St. Louis are eligible as honorary members by 

 virtue of their attainments in science. Any person con- 

 veying to the Academy the sum of one thousand dollars 

 or its equivalent becomes eligible as a patron. 



Under the By-Laws, resident active members pay 

 annual dues of six dollars. Non-resident active members 

 pay annual dues of three dollars only. Patrons and 

 honorary and corresponding members are exempt from 

 the payment of dues. Each patron, honorary member, 

 and active member not in arrears is entitled to one copy 

 of each publication of the Academy issued after his 

 election. 



Since the organization of the Academy, 1,324 persons 

 have been elected to active membership, of whom, on 

 December 31, 1913, 304 were carried on the list. Six 

 patrons, Mr. Edwin Harrison, Mrs. Eliza McMillan, Mr. 

 William Northrop McMillan, Mr. Henry W. Eliot, Mr. 

 William Keeney Bixby and Mr. Edward Mallinckrodt, 

 have been elected. Elections to honorary membership 

 number 14 (page vi), and 225 persons (Vol. X., p. xii) 

 have been elected to corresponding membership. 



OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT. 



The officers, who are chosen from the active members, 

 consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Recording 

 and Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, Librarian, 

 three Curators and two Directors. The general business 



