BY-LAWS. 
CHAPTER I.—Of Members and Fellows. 
1. Persons elected to resident membership shall pay their initiation 
fees within three months from date of election, or said election shall 
be void. No member in arrears shall be eligible as a fellow. 
2. A resident member or fellow removing from the city, and not 
in arrears, may become a corresponding member; and a corre- 
sponding member who removes to the city may become a resident 
member on paying the initiation fee. The Recording and Corre- 
sponding Secretaries shall have power to arrange the transfer, and 
shall notify the Treasurer. 
3. Only persons engaged in the pursuit of some branch of science 
shall be eligible to corresponding membership. 
CHAPTER II.—Of Original Subscriptions. 
1. Every holder (whether original subscriber, transferee, or lega- 
tee) of a receipt for the sum of one hundred dollars, paid into the 
treasury of the New York Lyceum of Natural History towards the 
liquidation of the debt incurred by the erecting of the building 
formerly the property of the Lyceum, in Broadway, in this city, 
shall be entitled for himself and his family to free admission to such 
public lectures as may be delivered on its behalf, which the members 
have aright to attend. He shall be entitled to the use of the books. 
of the Library, in accordance with the regulations of the Academy. 
CHAPTER III.—Of Patrons and Life-Members. 
1. Any person, by contributing, at one time, two hundred and 
fifty dollars to the fund forthe general purposes of the Academy, 
becomes a patron, and shall, during life, be entitled to the same 
privileges as an original subscriber, and shall be entitled to one 
copy of all the publications of the Academy appearing subsequent. 
to the date of the payment. 
