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Resident Membership is not restricted to specialists, but is 
open to those who take a general interest in science and desire 
to promote the work of the Academy by their subscriptions. 
The Initiation Fee is $5, and the annual dues are $10. Pay- 
ment of these confers upon Members full privileges and the 
right to all publications. By payment of $100 a Member may 
become a Life Member, commuting his annual dues. Donors 
of $250 become Patrons, and have all the privileges of Life or 
Resident Members. © 
Resident and Corresponding Members are elected as fol- 
lows: The candidates are proposed publicly, in writing, at any 
meeting, by a Fellow or Member; and the nominations, together 
with the name of the person making them, are referred to the 
Council; if approved, the candidates may be elected by ballot at 
any succeeding business meeting. 
PUBLICATIONS. ; 
The publications of the Academy at present consist of three 
series— Zhe Annals, The Transactions and The Memoirs. 
Both are distributed to Members and Fellows, and are circulated 
in exchange for the publications of nearly all the foreign Acad- 
emies and learned Societies. The Annals opened in 1824 and 
are now in the ninth volume of the second series; altogether 
nineteen volumes have been issued. They contain the longer 
contributions and reports of researches, and have given world-wide 
reputation to the Academy. The Transactions were begun in 
1881; they contain a record of the meetings, including abstracts 
of the shorter papers, and are now in the thirtieth volume. 
The Transactions appear regularly in signatures, or are sent in 
complete octavo volumes at the end of the year, according to the 
wishes of Members. Under the present system of printing, an 
author can secure immediate publication and distribution of a 
discovery in which it is important to establish priority. The 
present edition of both the Annals and Transactions is 1000. 
The Memoirs are issued in quarto form and are adapted to pa- 
pers requiring large plates or tabulations. They were begun in 
the current year and one number has been already issued. 
