XXIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
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 thirty, but may be increased to forty if any section should so desire, 
in the manner hereinafter indicated. Nominations to fill vacancies 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; but no person 
shall be nominated without his consent has previously been obtained anid 
notified to the Secretary. When a vacancy occurs, the Honorary Secre- 
tary shall, on the fifteenth day of March preceding the annual or any 
general meeting of the Society, transmit to each member of the section 
in which the vacancy has taken place, a printed list of the candidates 
nominated after the last annual meeting and prior to the first of March. 
Each member may then place a mark (X) Opposite the name of the 
candidate for whom he votes, and return the voting paper to the Hon- 
orary Secretary, who shall report to the council at a meeting to be held 
before the annual meeting, the number of votes obtained by each candi- 
date. Should any of these have obtained the 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 candi- 
dates 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 meet- 
ing, when the election may take place by a vote of the members present, 
or the matter be referred back to the section concerned, to select names 
from among the candidates nominated, and recommend them to the 
Society for election. This selection and recommendation by the sec- 
tion shall be made on the first day of the meeting at 2.30 p.m., unless 
otherwise ordered at that time by the section. If there be two or more 
vacancies, the selection shall be made by a separate vote for each vacancy. 
Each section shall have power to increase its number by electing 
one or two new members annually. The proposal to elect additional 
members shall be made by resolution of the section reported to the 
general meeting of the Society, otherwise no such member shall be elected 
for that year. This clause shall cease to operate as soon as the total 
number in any section shall have reached forty. 
II.—Any section may, by resolution reported to the general meet- 
ing, limit the number of members to be elected at the next election time 
or decide that no election shall be held. 
