CONSTITUTION. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN 

 ASSOCIATION. 



[As Amended at the Third Annual Meeting at Johannesbuni, 1905.] 



I. —OBJECTS. 



The objects of the Association are : — To give a stronger impulse 

 and a more systematic chrection to scientific enquiry ; to promote 

 the intercourse of Societies and individuals interested in Science in 

 different parts of South Africa ; to obtain a more general attention 

 to the objects of pure and applied Science, and the removal of any 

 disadvantages of a public kind which may impede its progress. 



IL— MEMBERSHIP. 



{a) All persons interested in the objects of the Association are 

 eligible for ^Membership. 



{h) The Association shall consist of Permanent Members, here- 

 after called " Members/' and Temporar}' Members, elected for a 

 session, hereafter called " Associates." 



(c) Members and Associates shall be elected directly by the 

 Council, or by the Managing Committee of Council. Associates 

 may also be elected by Local Committees. Members may also be 

 elected by a majority of the Members of Council resident in that 

 centre at which the next ensuing session is to be held. 



{d) The Council shall have the power, by a three-fourths vote, to 

 remove the name of anyone whose Membership is no longer desirable 

 in the interests of the Association. 



III.— PRIVITEGES OF MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES. 



{a) Members shall be eligible for all offices of the Association, and 

 to serve on its Committees, and shall receive gratuitously all ordinary 

 jniblications issued by the Association during the year of their 

 admission, and dvu-ing the years in which they continue to pay, 

 without intermission, their Annual Subscription. 



{&) Associates are eligible to serve on the Local Reception Com- 

 mittee, but are not eligible to hold any other office, and they are not 

 entitled to receive gratuitously the publications of the Association. 



(c) Members may purchase from the Association (for the purpose 

 of completing their sets) any of the Annual Reports of the Associa- 

 tion, at a price to be fixed upon by the Council. 



IV.— SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



{a) The Annual Subscription for Members shall be One Pound, 

 payable first at election, and thereafter on the First of July of each 

 year. After the first session* intending Members shall be required 

 to pay an Entrance Fee of One Pound in addition. 



* The first session was held in Cape Town from 27th April to 2nd May, 1903 



