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 under the control of the council. 
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 of 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 am 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. When the 
vacancy 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 of March preced- 
ing the annual or any general meeting of the society. Hach mem- 
ber may then place a mark (x) 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 report to the society. Should this result not be attained, 
then the council may select one or more of the candidates obtaining the 
highest number of votes of the section, and cause the members of the 
society to be advised of the names of the candidates so selected, at least 
one month previous to the date of the annual meeting, when the elec- 
