154 MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



2. Donors to this fund, not Members of the Academy, in the sum of 

 twenty-five dollars, shall be entitled without charge, to the publications 

 subsequently appearing. 



CBOAPTER VIII: Order of Business. 



1. The Order of Business at the Winter [Annual] Meetings shall be 

 as follows: 



(1) Call to order by the Presiding Officer. 



(2) Introductory ceremonies. 



(3) Statements by the President. 



(4) Report of the Council. 



(5) Report of the Treasurer, and appointment of the Auditing Committee. 



(6) Election of officers of tlie next ensuing Administration. 



(7) Election of Members. 



(8) Announcement of the hour and place for the Address of the retiring 

 President. 



(9) Necrologieal notices. 



(10) Miscellaneous announcements. 



(11) Business motions and resolutions, and dlsiwsal thereof. 



(12) Reports of committees, and disposal thereof. 



(13) Miscellaneous motions and resolutions. 



(14) Presentation of memoirs. 



2. At an adjourned session, the order shall be resumed at the place 

 reached on the previous adjournment, but new announcements, motions 

 and resolutions, will be in order before the resumption of the business 

 pending at the adjournment of the last preceding session. 



3. At the Summer [Field] Meeting, the items of business under 

 numbers (5), (6), (<S). (9), siiall be omitted. 



4. At any Special Meetincj the Order of Business shall be (1), (2), (3), 

 (7), (10), followed by the special business for which the meeting was called. 



CHAPTER IX. Amendments. 



These By-Laws may be amended by a majority vote of the members 

 present at any regular meeting, provided that notice of the substance 

 of the proposed amendment has been given at a previous regular meet- 

 ing. [Amended, April 1, 1897, by striking out the last eighteen words.] 



