and upon payment of a diploma fee of five dollars, a handsomely 

 engraved diploma shall be furnished in lieu thereof. 



Akt. YI. The library and museum shall be exclusively for 

 reference ; all donations made to either are regarded to have been 

 presented on condition that they shall not he loaned for any pur- 

 jjose, unless otherwise directed by the donor; but books may be 

 presented to the library, reserving to the donor only, the right to 

 borrow them. 



Art. VII. The officers of the Section shall be a Director, a 

 Vice-Director, a Recorder, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Con- 

 servator, "who shall be elected by ballot at the stated meeting in 

 December. 



CHAPTER 11. 



OF MEMBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. 



Art. I. No person is eligible to become a member or corres- 

 pondent of this Section, unless already a member or corres- 

 pondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Art. II. Any member or correspondent of the Academy 

 may become a member or correspondent of the Conchological 

 Section, either by addressing a -written notice to its Director or 

 by election. 



Art. III. Every candidate for admission into the Section by 

 election shall be nominated in Avriting at any meeting, by 

 at least two members of the Section, who shall record his name 

 and place of residence appropriately, and he shall be balloted 

 for at any one of the three meetings next subsequent, but after 

 that time the nomination shall be considered void. 



Art. IV. No member shall be entitled to the privileges of 

 membership until he shall have paid to the Treasurer or Recorder 

 the fee of initiation, and signed the following obligation : 



In becoming a member of the Conchological Section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, I promise to 

 conform myself to its laws and regulations, and in testimon y 

 thereof I hereunto subscribe my name. 



Art. V. If any member shall not sign the above declaration, 

 and pay the fee of initiation within six months after the date of 

 his admission ; or when any member shall neglect to pay his 



