446 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Article 7. Diplomas signed by the President and the Vice- 

 President of the Class to which the member belongs, and countersigned 

 by the Secretaries, shall be given to Foreign Honorary Members and 

 to Fellows on recjiiest. 



Article 8. If, in the opinion of a majority of the entire Council, 

 any Fellow or Foreign Honorary Member or Resident Associate shall 

 have rendered himself unworthy of a place in the Academy, the 

 Council shall recommend to the Academy the termination of his 

 membership; and if three fourths of the Fellows present, out of a 

 total attendance of not less than fifty at a Stated Meeting, or at a 

 Special jNIeeting called for the purpose, shall adopt this recommenda- 

 tion, his name shall be stricken from the Roll. 



See Chap, iii.; chap. vi. art. 1; chap. ix. art. 1, 7; chap. x. art. 2. 



CHAPTER HI 



Election of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members 



Article 1. Elections of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members 

 shall be made by the Council in xVpril of each year, and announced 

 at the Annual Meeting in May. 



Article 2. Nominations to Fellowship or Foreign Honorary 

 Membership in any Section must be signed by two Fellows of that 

 Section or by three voting Fellows of any Sections; but in any one 

 year no Fellow may nominate more than four persons. These nomi- 

 nations, with statements of qualifications and brief biographical data, 

 shall be sent to the Corresponding Secretary. 



All nominations thus received prior to February 15 shall be forth- 

 with sent in printed form to ever^^ Fellow having the right to vote, 

 with the names of the proposers in each case and a brief account of 

 each nominee, and with the request that the list be returned before 

 March 15, marked to indicate preferences of the voter in such manner 

 as the Council may direct. 



All the nominations, with any comments thereon and with the 

 results of the preferential indications of the Fellows, recei\ed by 

 March 15, shall be referred at once to the appropriate Class Commit- 

 tees, which shall report their decisions to the Council, which shall 

 thereupon have power to elect. 



Persons nominated in any year, but not elected, may be placed on 

 the preferential ballot of the next year at the discretion of the Council, 



