VIII TRANSACTIONS OF THli: 



practice. Papers read shall be limited to twenty minutes, after 

 which the subject shall be thrown open for discussion, remarks 

 thereon to be limited to five minutes for each speaker. 



Article XIV. — Publications. 



The address of the President, provided in Article VII, and the 

 transactions of the Society, shall be printed and published annually 

 or at such periods and in such form as may be determined by the 

 Council. 



Article XV. — Fees and Dues. 



The admission fee shall be five dollars, which shall exempt the 

 member from the payment of dues during the year in which he is 

 elected. The annual dues thereafter shall be three dollars, to be paid 

 prior to the election in January. The names of members failing 

 to pay their dues one month after written notice from the Treas- 

 urer, as provided in Article XI, shall be dropped from the roll, 

 unless from absence of the member from Washington or other satis- 

 factory explanation, the Council shall otherwise determine. 



Article XVI.— 6^///^. 



It shall be the duty of all members to seek to increase and per- 

 fect the materials of anthropological study in the national collec- 

 tions at Washington. All gifts of specimens, books, pamphlets, 

 maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings shall be received by 

 the Curator, who shall exhibit them before the Society at the next 

 regular meeting after their reception, and shall make such abstract 

 or entry concerning them, m a book provided by the Society, as 

 will secure their value as materials of research ; after which all 

 archaeological and ethnological materials shall be deposited in the 

 National Museum, in the name of the donor and of the Society ; 

 all crania and somatic specimens, in the Army Medical Museum; 

 all books, pamphlets, photographs, clii)pings, and abstracts, in the 

 archives of the Society. 



Article XVII. — Amendinents. 



This constitution shall not be amended except by a three-fourths 

 vote of the active members present at the annual meeting for the 

 election of officers, and after notice of the proposed change shall 



