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expressed the hope that it would feel warranted in incorporating 

 in its report such further changes as it may deem expedient. 

 Whereupon it was 



Voted, That the Committee be authorized and requested to act 

 in accordance with Dr. Ernst's suggestion. 



It was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the Publication 

 Fund, five hundred (500) dollars for use of the Publication 

 Committee during the present year. 



It was also 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the General Fund, 

 twenty (20) dollars for General expenses. 



William Wallace Campbell, of Mt. Hamilton, Cal. , was elected 

 an Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 1 (Mathematics and 

 Astronomy). 



The President reported that the Charter of the Academy had 

 been further amended by the Massachusetts Legislature as 

 follows : 



[Chapter 47.] 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



In the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eleven. 

 An Act Relative to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 

 eral Court assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows : — 



Section 1. Section four of chapter forty-six of the acts of the year 

 seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, as amended by section one of 

 chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen 

 hundred and ten, is hereby further amended by striking out the word 

 "three," in the last line, and inserting in place thereof the word : — 

 four, — so as to read as follows : — Section 4. That the fellows of the 

 said academy may from time to time elect such persons to be fellows 

 thereof as they shall judge proper ; and that they shall have full power 

 and authority from time to time to suspend, expel or disfranchise any 

 fellow of the said academy who shall by his conduct render himself 

 unworthy of a place in that body, in the judgment of the academy ; 

 and also to settle and establish the rules, forms and conditions of 

 election, suspension, expulsion and disfranchisement ; provided, that 

 the number of the said academy, who are inhabitants of this state, 



