STATUTES AND STANDING YOTES. 



STATUTES. 



Adopted May 30, 1854 : amended September 8, 1857, November 12, 1862, 

 May 24, 1864, November 9, 1870, May 27, 1873, January 26, 1876, 

 June 16, 1886, October 8, 1890, January 11, arad J% 10, 1893, May 

 9, and October 10, 1894, March 13, J/m7 10, and May 8, 1895, jH% 

 8, 190], January 8, 1902, May 10, 1905, February 14 anrf J/arc£ 14, 

 1906. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. 



1. The Academy consists of Resident Fellows, Associate Fellows, and 

 Foreign Honorary Members. They are arranged in three Classes, ac- 

 cording to the Arts and Sciences in which they are severally proficient, 

 viz. : Class I. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences ; — Class II. 

 The Natural and Physiological Sciences; — Class III. The Moral and 

 Political Sciences. Each Class is divided into four Sections, viz. : 

 Class I., Section 1. Mathematics and Astronomy; — Section 2. Physics; 

 — Section 3. Chemistry ; — Section 4. Technology and Engineering. 

 Class II., Section 1. Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe; — 

 Section 2. Botany ; Section 3. Zoology and Physiology ; — Section 4. 

 Medicine and Surgery. Class III., Section 1. Theology, Philosophy, 

 and Jurisprudence; — Section 2. Philology and Archaeology; — Sec- 

 tion 3. Political Economy and History; — Section 4. Literature and 

 the Fine Arts. 



2. The number of Resident Fellows shall not exceed two hundred, of 

 whom there shall not be more than eighty in any one of the three classes. 

 Only residents in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be eligible 

 to election as Resident Fellows, but resident fellowship may be retained 

 after removal from the Commonwealth. Each Resident Fellow shall 



