Sec. 3. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 

 meeting by a three-fourtlis majority of the attending members of at least 

 one year's standing. No question of amendment sliall be decided on tlie 

 day of its pi-esentation. 



BY-LAWS. 



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

 a curator, whose duty it shall he. with the assistance of the other members 

 interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance knowledge in 

 that particular department. Each curator shall report at such time and 

 place as the Academy shall direct. These reports shall include a brief sum- 

 mary of the progress of the department during the ,vear preceding the 

 presentation of the report. 



2. The President shall deliver a public address on the morning of one 

 of tlie days of the meeting at the expiratinn of his term of office. 



:>. The Press Secretary shall attend to the securing of proper news- 

 liapcr reports of the meetings and assist the Secretary. 



4. No 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 tifteen 

 days before such meeting. 



5. No bill against the Academy shall lie paid without an order signed 

 liy the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 



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

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

 sh.-ill have their names stricken from the roll. 



7. Ten memljers shall constitute a <juorum for the transaction of 

 business. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 

 AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1S95.] 



"Whereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered scientific 

 association, has embodied in its constitution a provision that it will, upon 

 the reciuest of the Governor, or of the several departments of the State 



