[ 600 ] 



BY-LAWS 



MEMBEES. 



1. The Association shall consist of Governors, Founders, 

 Life Members, and Annual Members, from whom shall be 

 chosen the Council, Officers, and not more than twenty Vice- 

 Presidents. 



2. A number of Associate Members, not exceeding fifty in 

 all, may be elected from among persons connected with Marine 

 Fisheries or interested in Marine Botany or Zoology. 



COUNCIL. 



3. The affairs of tlie Association shall be conducted and its 

 laboratories managed by a Council consisting of the Governors, 

 the Officers, the Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company 

 for the time being, and fourteen other Members to be chosen 

 annually who shall be eligible for re-election, except that the 

 two senior elected Members of Council according to date of 

 election shall retire each year, and shall not be eligible for re- 

 election until they have been out of office one year. In case of 

 equal seniority the order of retirement shall be determined by 

 lot. None of the above provisions as to retirement shall apply 

 to any one member or officer of each of the three following 

 Government Departments, namely, the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries, the Scottish Fishery Board, and the Board of 

 Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, whom being 

 a member of Council the Association may desire to re-elect as 

 the representative of his Department on the Council. At 

 Meetings of the Council five shall be a quorum. 



4. The Council shall have power to appoint from time to 

 time from among their number such Committees as the 

 Council may deem expedient, and may delegate to such Com- 



