STATUTES AND STANDING YOTES. 



STATUTES. 



Adopted May 30, 1854 : amended September 8, 1857, November 12, 1862, 

 May 24, 1864, November 9, 1870, .May 27, 1873, January 26, 1876, 

 June 16, 1886, October 8, 1890, January 11, and May 10, 1893, May 

 9, and Ocfokr 10, 1894, March 13, Jpn7 10, and May 8, 1895, May 

 8, 1901, January 8, 1902, JJ% 10, 1905, February 14 arcd J/arc/i 14, 

 1906, January 13,1909. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. 



1. The Academy consists of Resident Fellows, Associate Fellows, and 

 Foreign Honorary Members. They are arranged in three Classes, ac- 

 cording to the Arts and Sciences in which they are severally proficient, 

 viz.: Class I. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences; — Class II. 

 The Natural and Physiological Sciences; — Class III. The Moral and 

 Political Sciences. Each Class is divided into four Sections, viz. : 

 Class I., Section 1. Mathematics and Astronomy; — Section 2. Physics; 

 — Section 3. Chemistry ; — Section 4. Technology and Engineering. 

 Class II., Section 1. Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe; — 

 Section 2. Botany ; Section 3. Zoology and Physiology ; — Section 4. 

 Medicine and Surgery. Class III., Section 1. Theology, Philosophy, 

 and Jurisprudence; — Section 2. Philology and Archaeology; — Sec- 

 tion 3. Political Economy and History ; — Section 4. Literature and 

 the Fine Arts. 



2. The number of Resident Fellows residing in the Commonwealth 

 of Massachusetts shall not exceed two hundred, of whom there shall not 

 be more than eighty in any one of the three classes. Only residents in 

 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be eligible to election as Resi- 

 dent Fellows, but resident fellowship may be retained after removal from 



