828 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Articles 2 and 3 of Chapter III, concerning Elections, are herewith 

 submitted in a new draft, which substitutes the word "nominations" 

 for "candidates"; provides that nominations shall be accompanied 

 by statements of the qualifications of nominees and brief biographical 

 data; that nomination papers shall be retained by the Corresponding 

 Secretary until the first instead of the fifteenth of October or Febru- 

 ary; that the Fellows shall be notified not later than the fifteenth 

 instead of the thirtieth of September and January that the time limit 

 for making nominations will expire on the first instead of the fifteenth 

 of the following month; and strikes out the provisions for reading 

 nominations at the December and April meetings and posting them 

 in the Hall. There are also a few, slight, verbal changes in no way 

 affecting the provisions of the Chapter as they now stand. 



Articles 3 and 4 of Chapter IV should be amended by striking out 

 the requirement that the Recording Secretary shall send to the Fellows 

 with any Independent Nominations for office which may be made, a 

 list of the Regular Nominations, which have been previously mailed 

 to them. There are also two slight verbal changes. 



Article 2 of Chapter VI should be amended by striking out the 

 requirement to post in the Hall a list of nominations to Fellowship; 

 and specifically pro\dding that the Report of the Nominating Com- 

 mittee shall be sent by the Recording Secretary to the Fellows at 

 least three weeks before the Annual Meeting. 



Article 5 of Chapter XI should be amended by striking out the 

 reference to the present requirement that nominations to Fellowship 

 shall be read to the Academy. 



A draft of these six Articles as they will read if the recommendations 

 of this Report are adopted is hereto annexed. 



The Committee is unanimously of opinion that the proposed 

 amendment to Article 1 of Chapter IV, providing that the President 

 and Vice-Presidents shall not be elected for more than three years in 

 succession, is inexpedient and should not be adopted. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Elihu Thomson. 

 Henry Lefavour. 

 Henry H. Edes. 

 Boston, 12 April, 1916. 



