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2. To amend the statutes in accordance with the bill now before the 

 Legislature, then to increase the Massachusetts membership by 20 or 

 25 a year until we have perhaps 300 such members ; and thereafter to 

 increase membership as the Academy shall then determine. 



3. To amend the statutes so that we may gradually increase the 

 American membership outside of Massachusetts to such a number — 

 for example, 300 or 400 — as shall justify our name : "The American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences " ; and thus in some measure return to 

 the original intention of the Academy. 



4. To place all American members in one list, all to have the right 

 of attending meetings, presenting papers, and taking part in discus- 

 sions. All Massachusetts members to pay an annual fee, and to have 

 the further rights of voting on the affairs of the Academy, publishing 

 in the publications of the Academy and receiving the publications if 

 desired. American members residing outside of Massachusetts also to 

 have these additional rights on payment of corresponding fees. All 

 American members to be called Fellows, and their names to be pub- 

 lished in one list, subdivided into Classes and Sections as at present, 

 but without indicating which are paying and which non-paying 

 members. 



5. That the functions of the Council be enlarged, in order to give it 

 supervision over all the affairs of the Academy, not otherwise speci- 

 fied by the statutes. 



6. That a committee of five, including the President and the Record- 

 ing Secretary, be appointed to take charge of meetings. 



Note. Recommendations 5 and 6 were reported to the Academy 

 November 9th, 1910. 



If the above recommendations are adopted by the Academy, pro- 

 posed alterations of the statutes will be submitted, for reference to a 

 committee. 



The President reported that the Committee on endowment — 

 Messrs. C. P. Bowditch, E. C. Clarke, and the President — had 

 been promised four thousand dollars vs^ithout effort on the part 

 of the Committee, and he saw no reason why an endowment of 

 fifty thousand dollars might not be raised. 



On motion of W. M. Davis, seconded by A. G. Webster, it was 



Voted, To adopt the first recommendation of the Committee 

 on Policy, as follows : — 



" Accept the offer of the Agassiz heirs, whereby we secure a 

 dignified and comfortable home, with the probability of increased 



