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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 all the Fellows and Foreign Honorary 

 Members. 



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

 any Fellow or Foreign Honorary Member 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 Meeting called for the purpose, shall 

 adopt this recommendation, 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 by ballot, and only at the Stated Meetings in January and 

 May. Three fourths of the ballots cast, and not less than twenty, 

 must be affirmative to effect an election. 



Article 2. Candidates must be proposed in writing by two Fellows 

 of the Section for which the proposal is made. These signed nomina- 

 tions shall be sent to the Corresponding Secretary and shall be retained 

 by him until the fifteenth of the following October or February, as 

 the case may be, when all nominations then in his hands shall be imme- 

 diately sent in printed form to every Fellow having the right to vote, 

 with the names of the proposers in each case, and with a request to send 

 to the Corresponding Secretary written comments on these names not 

 later than the fifth of November or the fifth of March respectively. 



All the signed nominations, with the comments thereon, received up 

 to the fifth of November or the fifth of March shall be sent at once to 

 the appropriate Class Committees, which shall report their decisions 

 to the Council at a special meeting to be called to consider nom- 

 inations, not later than two days before the meeting of the Academy in 

 December and April respectively. 



Article 3. All nominations approved by the Council shall be read 

 to the Academy at a meeting in December or in April, or be sent to the 



