1884.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 261 



Chapter I, Article 6, of the By-Laws was amended by the addi- 

 tion of the following : — " Neither the building occupied by the 

 society, nor any part of the site or ground pertaining thereto, shall 

 be sold, leased, encumbered or charged in any manner whatever, 

 nor shall any apartment or space in the Academy or adjacent 

 ground be assigned or appropriated permanently to the exclusive 

 use of any person or to the accommodation of any special collection 

 or collections, unless the proposition in this connection be in 

 writing, signed by at least five members, presented at a stated 

 meeting of the Academy, referred to the Council for examination 

 and report — which report shall be considered as special business, 

 to be acted upon at a subsequent stated meeting, to be held at 

 least twenty-six da3'^s after that at which the report of the Council 

 has been read, the date to be fixed by resolution ; but no action shall 

 be taken thereon until after full notice thereof and of said date shall 

 be given to the members by advertisement once a week, for three 

 weeks in two daily newspapers of general circulation in Phila- 

 delphia, and by written or printed notice by mail or otherwise to 

 all the members whose residences or places of business shall 

 be known to the Recording Secretar}'. At such meeting the 

 measure proposed may be considered and adopted b^^ two-thirds 

 of the members present at that meeting, or at any subsequent 

 adjourned meeting for that purpose, provided that at least eighty 

 members be present and vote ; and provided also that nothing in 

 this article shall be so construed as to change, alter or repeal 

 Art. 5, Chapter XI, or release the curators from the charge and 

 care of collections, as provided for in these by-laws." 



Chapter XVI, Article 4, of the By-Laws was amended as 

 follows : — In the third line, after the word " inclusive," insert the 

 words " except Article 6, Chap. I " and add the followings words 

 or paragraph : — "Article 6, Chap. I, may be amended, altered or 

 repealed by two-thirds, upon a yea, and nay vote of not less than 

 eighty members, at a meeting called to consider that special 

 business, after advertisement and individual notification of the 

 members, in manner and form specified in said article, but not 

 otherwise." 



The following were elected members : — George Fales Baker, 

 W. B. Scott, Edmund J. James, and H. LaBarre Jayne. 



The following were elected correspondents : — G. Yom Rath, 

 of Bonn, and Geo. E. Dobson, of London. 



The following were ordered to be printed : — 



