722 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



and no report shall in any case be published by any member in a news- 

 paper as an account of the proceedings of the Academy, without the 

 consent and approval of the Council previously given." 



It was 



Voted, to adopt the third and fourth recommendations of the 

 Committee on Policy, read at the meeting of February 8tli, with 

 the addition of the words "(United States)" after the word 

 American in line one of Recommendations 4, as follows : 



"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 : 'TUe American 

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

 the original intention of the Academy." 



" To place all American (United States) members in one list, all to 

 have the right of attending meetings, presenting papers, and taking 

 part in discussions. 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 pub- 

 lications if desired. American members residing outside of Massachu- 

 setts also to have these additional rights on payment of corresponding 

 fees. All American members to be called Fellows, and their names to 

 be published in one list, subdivided into Classes and Sections as at 

 present, but without indicating which are paying and which non-paying 

 members." 



The Corresponding Secretary presented proposed alterations of 

 the Statutes to accord with the recommendations of the Com- 

 mittee on Policy just adopted, together with other alterations 

 recommended by the Council, and moved that they be referred 

 to a Committee. 



The President referred the proposed alterations of the Statutes 

 to a Committee consisting of H. H. Edes and W. M. Davis. ^ 



Dr. Ernst said that as the adoption by the Academy of the 

 several recommendations of the Committee on Policy necessi- 

 tated so many alterations in the Statutes, other changes might, 

 in consequence, suggest themselves to the Committee ; and he 



1 Professor Davis, having been called to Europe soon after his appointment, 

 resigned from the Committee, whereupon the President appointed Professor 

 Elihu Thomson and Dr. Henry Lefavour to serve with Mr. Edes. 



