200 BY-LAWS OF THE 
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 its discretion. 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 Nomi- 
nations, 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 committees 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 pre- 
sent business at any meeting at which a majority of those present 
shall not be fellows. 
CHAPTER VI.—Of Committees. 
1. The Committee on Finance shall audit all accounts against the 
Academy, and shall have the duties and powers of a Committee of 
Ways and Means. They shall report on financial questions re- 
ferred to them, whenever called upon to do so by the Academy or 
the Council. 
2. Committees for Special Purposes may be appointed when re- 
quired. 
CHAPTER VII.—Of Sections. 
1. Sections of special branches of science may be established or 
abolished by the Academy upon the recommendation of the Council 
and one month’s notice. 
2. Sections shall be organized with at least a Chairman and a 
Secretary, and these officers may take charge of the meeting of 
their section during the presentation of its scientific busines.s 
