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Sec. ?,. The members who are actively ensaged in scientific worlc, 

 wlio liave recognized standing as scientific men, and who have been mem- 

 bers of the Academy at least one year, may be recommended for nom- 

 ination for election as follows by three fellows or members personally 

 acquainted with their work and character. Of members so nominated a 

 number not exceeding five in one year may, on recommendation of the 

 Executive Committee, be elected as fellows. At the meeting at which 

 this is adopted, the members of the Executive Committee for 1894 and 

 fifteen others shall be elected fellows, and those honorary members 

 shall become honorary fellows. Honorary fellows may be elected on 

 account 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. 



ARTICLE III. 



Section 1. 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, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Press Secre- 

 tary, Editor, and Treasurer, who sliall perform the duties usually per- 

 taining 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 meml)ers to be a committee 

 which shall prepare the programs and have charg(? of the arrangements 

 for all meetings for one year. 



Sec. 2. Tlie annual meeting of the Academy shall be held in tlie 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 

 Executive Committee. Other meetings may be called at the discretion of 

 the Executive Committee, shall constitute the council of the Academy, 

 and represent it in the transaction of any necessary business not espe- 

 cially provided for in this constitution, in the interim between general 

 meetings. 



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

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

 one year's standing. No question of amendment shal be decided on tiie 

 day of its presentation. 



BY-LAWS. 



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

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



