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council (i) shall vote upon the names of all 

 candidates for membership and the chairman 

 shall notify the secretary of all persons elected 

 to membership; (2) to present a plan of work 

 to the association at the annual meeting, said 

 plan of work being subject to the approval of 

 the association; (3) and to draw orders on the 

 treasurer, to meet expenses of the association 

 not otherwise provided for. 



ARTICLE VI — ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



Sec. 7. The election of officers shall be 

 held annually at the annual meeting. 



Sec. 2. The officers of this association shall 

 be elected by a majority vote of the active 

 members voting, and shall be chosen from 

 among the active members. 



ARTICLE VII — OFFICIAL ORGAN. 



Sec. I . The official organ of this association 

 shall be the magazine know as the Oregon 

 Naturalist. 



Sec. 2. It shall contain all reports and 

 proceedings of this association. 



ARTICLE VIII — MEETINGS. 



An annual meeting of this association shall 

 be held at a convenient time and place, during 

 the month of December of each year; place of 

 said meeting to be decided by the members, 

 at the preceeding annual meeting, and time to 

 be designated by the jtresident. 



ARTICLE IX — EXPULSIONS. 



Any member who shall be detected in any 

 fraudulent acts whatsoever, shall, upon con- 

 viction thereof be expelled by a two thirds vote 

 of the members present at any annual meeting. 



ARTICLE X — AMENDMENTS. 



All proposed amendments to this constitution 

 shall be presented at the regular annual meet- 

 ing and may be adopted by a two thirds vote 

 of all active members present. 



BY-LAWS. 



Sec. I. Each active member shall be re- 

 quired to send to the secretary, or to sucli per- 

 son as the president may direct, any notes he 

 may have upon the family of birds which is 

 under special consideration 



Sec. 2. Associate members are expected to 

 furnish notes on the family of birds which is 



under special consideration whenever they are 

 able to do so. 



Sec. 3. Applications for membership shall 

 be sent to the secretaiy, who shall forward the 

 same to the council. 



Sec. 4. The president shall have the power 

 to appoint an editor, to assist the secretary, 

 who shall have charge of the space assigned to 

 the Official Organ. 



Sec. 5. 'I'he membership fee of all members 

 shall be fifty cents; this shall cover all dues to 

 the first of January after initiation. 



Sec. 6, The annual dues of ail members 

 shall be fifty cents, payable January first of each 

 year. 



Sec. 7. The Oregon Naturalist shall be 

 sent free to all members, who are not in 

 arrears. 



Sec. 8. The constitution and by-laws of 

 of this association shall he kept by the secre- 

 tary. Each member shall be entitled to copies 

 free of charge. 



Sec. 9. Ail papers presented at the annual 

 nieeting shall become the property of the 

 association, and shall be filed wii li the se.-;retary. 



Sec. 10. The by laws niiy he amended 

 under the sanie conditions as the constitution. 



Kansas City, Mo., Aug., 30, 1896. 

 [To "The Oregon Naturalist."] 



During this summer I have been studying 

 the common fire-fly, Sanipyris tto^liluca. 

 Works on entomology give but a very meager 

 account of the anatomy of its light -bearing 

 organs and give also a jiaucity of information 

 of the nature of the light produced by them. I 

 have studied its organs of light with the aid of 

 the micro.scope and the peculiar light with the 

 spectroscope. I am working on a spectroscopic 

 chart of the light of the fire-fly. 



The study of light is engaging the attention 

 of physicists all over the world. I believe that 

 the study of the light of the fire-fly is just as 

 important as that of the electric light and may 

 be a link to tts .solution, for the drift of thought 

 is in the direction of producing light without 

 heat. 



Dr. Theodore W. Schaefer. 



