8 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



The sections may meet separately for the reading and discussion of 

 papers, and for business, at such times and places as may be fixed by 

 the sections imder the control of the council. 



In the' intervals between meetings, papers for wliich immediate 

 publication is important, may be submitted to any section in the man- 

 ner and under the conditions hereinafter prescribed, and discussed by 

 correspondence among the members of the section. 



5. Officers. 



The officers of the society shall be a president and vice-president, 

 with an honorary secretary and a treasurer, to be elected by the whole 

 society; besides a president, vice-president and secretary to each section, 

 to be elected by each section. The elections shall be annual. 



The council of the society shall consist of the officers so elected, 

 and of ex-presidents, during three years from the date of their retirement 

 from the office of president, and of such ex-members of the council, not 

 exceeding four in number, as may be selected by the council itself. The 

 ex-members, so elected, shall continue in office for three years, and after- 

 wards until successors are appointed. 



6. Members (as Amended in 1899 and 1900). 



The Fellows shall be persons resident in the Dominion of Canada. 

 or in Newfoundland, who have published original works or memoirs of 

 merit, or have rendered eminent services to literature or to science. 



The number of members in each section shall be in general limited 

 to twenty-five, but may be increased to thirty if any section should so 

 desire, in the manner hereinafter indicated. Nominations to fill vacan- 

 cies in any section may be made at any time in writing by any three 

 members of that section, and the nomination papers shall be lodged with 

 the honorary secretary, who shall make a record of them. Wlien the 

 vaxîancy occurs, the honorary secretary shall notify the members of the 

 section in which it has taken place, and transmit to each a printed list 

 of the candidates nominated, on the fifteenth day bf March preceding 

 the annual or any general meeting of the society. Each member may 

 then place a mark (-f-) opposite the name of the candidate for whom he 

 votes, and return the voting paper to the honorary secretary, who shall 

 report to the council at a meeting, to be held before the annual meeting, 

 the number of votes obtained by each candidate. Should any of these 

 have obtained a majority of the whole section, the council shall so re- 

 port to the society. Should this result not be attained, then the council 



