202 BY-LAWS OF THE 
CHAPTER X.—Of the Publication Fund. 
1. Contributions may be received towards establishing a Publica- 
tion Fund; all such contributions shall be invested in United 
States or in New York State securities, and the income thereof be 
applied toward defraying the expense of the scientific publications 
of the Academy. 
2. Contributors to this fund in the sum of one hundred dollars, 
or more, at one time, shall be entitled to one copy of all the scien- 
tific publications of the Academy appearing subsequently to the 
date of the payment of their contribution. 
CHAPTER XI.—Of the Museum.* 
1. All donations shall have the names of the donors affixed 
thereto. 
2. All members shall have access to the Museum, subject to the 
regulations of the Academy. 
3. All deposited specimens shall be labelled with the name of the 
depositor, and, while they remain as such, shall be exclusively under 
the control of the Academy, and subject to the same uses and regu- 
lations as the specimens belonging to it. 
4. No person, making a deposit of specimens, shall be allowed to 
remove them without giving a receipt for the same to the Curator 
in charge. 
5. No specimen contained in the Museum shall be loaned, unless 
by special permission of the Academy. 
6. The Curators shall arrange, in systematic order, all the speci- 
mens belonging to the Museum, and keep a catalogue of the same; 
and shall report, on the fourth Monday in February in each year, 
the state of the property confided to their charge. 
CHAPTER XII.—Of the Library. 
1. The Library shall be under the control of the Librarian and 
the Library Committee. 
2. No book shall be purchased, or other expense incurred for the 
Library, except by a recommendation to that effect signed by a 
majority of the Library Committee, and ratified by the Council. 
3. The Library Committee shall designate such books as ought 
not to be removed” from the rooms of the Academy, which shall 
1 This chapter has been practically suspended, on account of the destruc- 
tion of the Museum by fire. 
2 By the present rule, no book can be so removed without special permis- 
sion from the Council. 
