executive committee. Other meetings may be called at the discretion of 

 the executive committee. 



Sec. fr This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 

 meeting by a three-fourths majority of attending members of at least one 

 year's standing. No question of amendment shall be decided on the day 

 of its presentation. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. On motion, any special department of science shall be assigned to 

 a curator, whose duty it shall be, with the assistance of the other mem- 

 bers interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance a knowl- 

 edge in that particular department. Each curator shall report at such 

 time and place an the Academy shall direct. These reports shall include 

 a brief summary of the progress of the department during the year pre- 

 ceding the presentation of the report. 



2. The president shall deliver a public address on the evening of one of 

 the days of the meeting at the expiration of his term of office. 



:'.. Xo special meeting of the Academy shall be held without a notice 

 of the same having been sent to the address of each member at least fif- 

 teen days before such meeting. 



4. Xo bill against the Academy shall be paid without an order signed 

 by the president and countersigned by the secretary. 



5. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 

 years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the treasurer, 

 shall have their names stricken from the roll. 



6. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi- 

 ness. 



