FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 149 



ARTICLE V. 



SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL. 



Sec. 1. The Executive Committee shall annually appoint a Scientific Council 

 of not more than ten meml)ers, and shall fill all vacancies. Members of the 

 Council shall hold office until their successors are appointed. 



Sec. 2. The duties of the Council shall be to act as nn advisory board in all 

 matters pertaining- to the scientific administration of the Society, and esjiecially 

 as to the scientific features of the Park, the ]:)romotion of zoology by publications 

 and otherwise, and the preservation of the native fauna of America. 



Sec 3. Four members, including the Chairman, shall constitute a quorum. 

 The Chairman shall be elected annually by tlie Council. The Chairman of the 

 Executive Committee and the Secretaiy of the Society shall be members ex-offic'w 

 of the council. 



ARTICLE VI. 



JME3IBERS. 



Sec. 1. The ]iresent members and such others as shall become associated 

 with them, under the conditions prescribed by the By-Laws, shall lie members of 

 this Society as long as they shall com])!}' with the By-Laws. 



Sec 2. Members failing to comply with these By-Laws, or for other good 

 and sufficient cause, may be expelled from the Society by the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



Sec 3. Candidates for membership shall l)e proposed and seconded by mem- 

 bers of the Society. The name, occupation, and place of residence of every 

 member as proposed shall be submitted for election to the Board of Managers or 

 the Executive Committee, and such person, when elected, shall become a member 

 upon payment of the annual dues, or of the fees as jirescribed below. 



Sec 4. There shall be a class known as Fellows, which shall consist of 

 members of the Society who have rendered marked services to science, and shall 

 be chosen by the Executive Committee. The privileges and dues of Fellows shall 

 be, in all respects, the same as those of regular members of the Society. 



Sec 5. The annual dues shall be ten dollars, payable in advance, on the 

 first day of May of each year, but tlie Executive Committee ma_v remit the dues 

 for the current year in the case of members elected between January 1st and May 

 1st of each year. The classes of membership shall be as follows: 



Sec. 6. The payment of $200 at one time shall constitute any member a Life 

 Member. 



A member ^^•ho has paid annual dues for a period of five years may there- 

 after, at any time, u]>on the payment of the difference between the amount of 

 dues already paid and $200, become a Life Member, but such payment shall be 

 not less than $100. 



Sec 7. The payment of $1,000 at one time, or in the case of a Life Member, 

 of $800, shall constitute any member a Patron. 



Sec 8. The payment of $2,500 at one time, or in the case of a Patron of 

 $1,500, or of a Life Member of $2,300, shall constitute any member an Associate 

 Founder. 



Sec 9. Any member who shall donate to the Society $5,000, or proj^erty 

 of equal value, or any Associate Founder who shall donate $2,500, or any Patron 

 who shall donate $4,000, may be elected by the Board of Managers or Executive 

 Committee a Founder. 



