96 STATUTES OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



CHAPTER YIII. 

 Of Meetings. 



1. There shall be annually four stated meetings of the Academy ; namely, on the day next 

 preceding the last Wednesday in Alay (the Annual Meeting), on the second Wednesday in October, 

 on the second Wednesday in January, and on the second AVednesday in March ; to be held in the 

 Hall of the Academy, in Boston. At these meetings only, or at meetings adjourned from these and 

 regularly notified, shall appropriations of money be made, or alterations of the statutes or standing 

 votes of the Academy be effected 



2. Fifteen Fellows shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at a stated meet- 

 in". Seven Fellows shall be sufficient to constitute a meeting for scientific communications and 

 discussions. 



3. The Kecording Secretary shall notify the meetings of the Academy to each Fellow residing 

 in Boston and the vicinity ; and he may cause the meetings to be advertised, whenever he deems 

 such further notice to be needful. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Of the Election of Fellows and Honoraet Members. 



1. Elections shall be made by ballot, and only at stated meetings. 



2. Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be proposed by two or more Resident 

 FeUows in a recommendation signed by them specifying the section to which the nomination is 

 made, which recommendation shall be transmitted to the Corresponding Secretary, and by him 

 referred to the Council for nomination. No person recommended shall be reported by the Council 

 as a candidate for election, unless he shall have received a written approval, signed at a meeting of 

 the Council by at least eight of its members. All nominations thus approved shall be read to the 

 Academy at a stated meeting, and shall then stand on the nomination list during the inten^al 

 between two stated meetings, and until the balloting. No person shall be elected a Resident 

 Fellow, unless he shall have been resident in this Commonwealth one year next preceding his 

 election ; and any Resident Fellow, who shall remove his domicile from the Commonwealth, shall 

 be deemed to have abandoned his Fellowship. If any person elected a Eesideut Fellow shall neglect 

 for one year to pay his admission fee, his election shall be void ; and, if any Resident Fellow shall 

 neglect to pay his annual assessments for two years, provided that his attention shall have been 



