CXXIV THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
4. Division into Sections. 
The society shall consist of the four following sections: 
1. French Literature, History, Archeology, Sociology, Political 
Economy and allied subjects. 
2. English Literature, History, Archeology, Sociology, Political 
Economy and allied subjects. 
3. Mathematical, Chemical and Physical Sciences. 
4. Geological and Biological Sciences. 
5. Officers. 
The officers of the Society shall be a president, a vice-president, 
an honorary secretary and an honorary treasurer, to be elected by the 
whole society; a president, a vice-president and a 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 retire- 
ment 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 
afterwards until successors are appointed. 
6. Members. 
The Fellows shall be persons resident in the Dominion of Canada, 
or Newfoundland, who have published original works or memoirs of 
merit, or have rendered eminent services to literature or science. 
The number of Fellows in each section shall be limited, as follows: 
Section I. forty; Section II. forty; Section III. forty; Section IV. fifty. 
Nominations to fill vacancies in the membership of the Society, 
which may occur by death or by the operation of By-Law 8, may be 
made at any time, and each nomination paper shall be signed by three 
members of the section to the membership of which the candidate is 
nominated. No person shall be nominated whose consent to that end 
has not previously been obtained. Only those candidates nominated 
on or before the fifteenth day of February shall be eligible for election 
at the next ensuing annual meeting. 
Any candidate whose name shall have been in a previous list of 
candidates, but who shall not have been elected, shall, if his proposers, 
or any of them, so request in writing before the fifteenth of February 
immediately preceding an election, be a candidate at such election, and 
his name shall be placed in alphabetical order with those of the new 
