CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



[.'}s amended at the I'oiirtecnth Annual Meeting at Maritzburg. 1916.] 



I.— OBJECTS. 



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

 impulse and a more systematic direction 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. 



II.— MEMBERSHIP. 



(rt) All persons interested in the objects of the Association 

 are eligible for Membership. 



{h) Institutions. Societies, Government Departments and 

 Public Bodies are eligible as " Institutional Members." 



(c) The Association shall consist of (a) Life Members, (b) 

 Ordinary Members (both of whom shall be included under the 

 term "Members"), (c) Institutional Members, and (d) Tem- 

 porary Members, elected for a session, hereinafter called " Asso- 

 ciates." 



{d) Members, Institutional Members, and Associates shaH 

 be elected directly by the Council, but Associates may also be 

 eleqted 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. 



{€) The Council shall have the power, by a two-thirds vote, 

 to remove the name of a member of any class whose Membership 

 is no longer desirable in ithe interests of the Association. 



III.— PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES. 



(a) Life Members shall be eligible for all offices of the 

 Association, and shall receive gratuitously all ordinary publica- 

 tions issued by the Association. 



(&) Ordinary Members shall be eligible for all offices of the 

 Association, and shall receive gratuitously all ordinary publica- 

 tions issued by the Association during the year of their admission, 

 and during the years in which they continue to pay, without inter- 

 mission, their Annual Subscription. 



(c) Institutional Members shall receive gratuitously all 

 ordinary publications of the Association on the same conditions 

 as ordinary members ; and each Institutional Member shall be 

 entitled to send one representative to the Annual Session of the 

 Association. 



