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of the cabinets. Each Curator shall have his particular depart- 
ment allotted to him when elected. All regulations made by the 
Curators shall be reported to the Council, and approved of by the 
Academy, before such regulations shall come into operation. 
6. The Curator having charge of any division of the collection, 
shall alone be authorized to select duplicate specimens from such 
division for the purpose of exchange or donation ; but no ex- 
change or donation shall be made, except such as is authorized by 
a vote of the Society. 
7. The increase and improvement of the collections being the 
inducement to exchange, it shall be the duty of the Curators to 
report to the Society all such opportunities to exchange as would 
favor this object. 
CHAPTER V.—Of the Council, 
1. The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Acad- 
emy, shall hold the same offices in the Council. In the absence 
of any of them, officers pro tempore may be appointed. 
2, The Council shall meet at least once a month, within ten 
days preceding the regular business meeting of the Academy. 
Minutes shall be kept of its proceedings, which may be called for 
at any business meeting, upon a vote of the Academy. Matters 
of a strictly personal nature, however, need not be entered on the 
minutes of the Council. 
3. Five members of the Council, a majority of whom shall be 
fellows, shall constitute a quorum; but the Council may appoint 
an Executive Committee, or business may be transacted at a regu- 
larly called meeting of the Council at which less than a quorum is 
present, subject to the written approval of a majority of the Coun- 
cil, subsequently given to the Secretary, and recorded by him with 
the minutes. 
4. The Council shall prepare all business referred to it by the 
Academy, and may present any other business at itsdiscretion. It 
shall frame its own rules and regulations, and determine the time 
and place of its meetings. 
5. The Council shall organize within itself a Committee on 
Nominations, a Committee on Publication, and a Committee on 
the Library, to whom, in the intervals of the meetings of the 
Council, all matters pertaining to these several subjects shall be 
referred. Their action shall always be subject to the revision of 
the Council. The names of the persons composing these com- 
mittees shall be kept publicly posted in the rooms of the Academy. 
6. All business prepared by the Council shall be presented to 
the Academy by the Recording Secretary, or, in his absence, by 
some other officer of the Council. But the Council may decline 
to present business at any meeting at which a majority of those 
present shall not be fellows. 
