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all further fees or assessments, may be obtained by a Fellow 
on payment of one hundred dollars, by a Member on payment 
of seventy-five dollars, or by an Associate on payment of 
fifty dollars. But any Member or Associate, in event of his 
election to a higher class of membership, must then pay such 
additional sum as will make his total payments for life member- 
ship equal to the amount required for the class to which he is 
elected. In default of such payment his life membership 
lapses; but in that event there shall be credited toward his 
future annual assessments, any excess there may be in the 
amount he has already paid for life membership over that 
which he otherwise would have paid as annual assessments 
during the time he has held life membership. 
Section 7. Any person desirous of furthering the aims of 
the Union may become a Patron thereof on payment of the 
sum of five hundred dollars, and his name shall be perpetu- 
ally inscribed upon the records of the Union. 
Article VI. Of Scientific Communications and Publications. 
Section t. The Union may publish, under the direction of 
the Council, a serial Journal of Ornithology, called ‘The Auk,’ 
and such reports, proceedings, memoirs, and other works on 
Ornithology as the Council may authorize. 
Section 2. Communications on Ornithology may be read at 
the Stated Meetings of the Union, by any member, or for him 
by any other member, notice of the same having been previ- 
ously given to the Secretary. 
Section 3. Any member may read a paper for a person who 
is not a member, and shall not be considered responsible for 
the facts or opinions expressed by the author, but shall be 
held responsible for the appropriateness of the paper. Persons 
who are not members may read papers on invitation of the 
President, and with the approval of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments. 
Section 4. The Secretary shall receive at any time scientific 
papers for presentation at the Stated Meetings, and shall 
report the date of their reception at the next Stated Meeting. 
