CONSTITI'TIOX. 



Section 1. This Association shall be called the Indiana Academy of 

 Science. 



Sec. 2. The objects of this Academy shall be scientific research and the 

 diffusion of knowledge concerning the various departments of science. 



Sec. 3. Members of this Academy shall consist of three classes, active, 

 non-resident and honorary. Any person engaged in any department of 

 scientific work, or in original research in any department of science, shall 

 be eligible to active membership. Active members may be annual or life 

 members. Annual members may be elected at any meeting of the Acad- 

 emy; they shall sign the constitution, pay an admission fee of two dollars, 

 and thereafter, an annual fee of one dollar. Any person who shall at one 

 time contribute fifty dollars to the funds of this Academy, maybe elected 

 a life member of the Academy, free of assessment. Xon-resident mem- 

 bers may be elected from those who have been active members but who 

 have removed from the state. Honorary members may be elected on ac- 

 count of special prominence in science, on the written recommendation of 

 two members of the Academy. In any case, a three fourths vote of the 

 members present shall elect to membership. Applications for member, 

 ship in any of the foregoing classes shall be referred to a committee on ap- 

 plications for membership, who shall consider such application and re- 

 port to the Academy before the election. 



Sec. 4. The officers of this Academy shall be chosen by ballot at the 

 annual meeting, and shall hold office one year. They shall consist of a 

 president, a vice president, secretary, assistant secretary, and treasurer, 

 who shall perform the duties usually pertaining to their respective offices, 

 and in addition, with the ex-presidents of the Academy, shall constitute 

 an executive committee. The president shall, at each annual meeting, 

 appoint two members to be a committee which shall prepare the pro- 

 grammes and have charge of the arrangements for all meetings for one 

 year. 



Sec. 5. The annual meeting of this Academy shall be held in the city 

 of Indianapolis, within the week following Christmas of each year, unless 

 otherwise ordered by the executive committee. There shall also be a 

 summer meeting at such time and place as may be decided upon by the 



