Council and the main working body, and conduct the business 

 of the Academy. 



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 $io. 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 — The Annals^ The Transactions and The Me?noirs. 

 All 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 1834 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 secvu'e 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 1,000. 

 The Memoirs are issued in quarto form and are adapted to pa- 



