BY-LAWS. 



I. A committee of three, to include the Secretar}', 

 shall be appointed by the Executive Committee to 

 arrange a programme for each meeting. 



II. The following persons shall be considered 

 professionally engaged in natural history within the 

 meaning of Article ii., Section i: — Only those who 

 regularly devote a considerable portion of their time 

 to the advancement of natural histor}^; fi^'^tf those 

 who have published investigations in pure science 

 of acknowledged merit; second, teachers of natural 

 history, officers of museums of natural history, phy- 

 sicians, and others who have essentially promoted 

 the natural-history sciences by original contributions 

 of any kind. 



[The committee appointed to draft this by-law feel that its 

 importance renders it necessary for the by-law to be laid before 

 the society for its action, but by the previous vote of the society 

 the by-law will stand until further action upon it. — Secretary. '\ 



