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Sec. 38. The members who are actively engaged in scientific work, 
who have recognized standing as scientific men, and who haye been mem- 
bers of the Academy at least one year, may be recommended for nom- 
ination for election as follows by three fellows or members personally 
acquainted with their work and character, Of members so nominated a 
number not exceeding five in one year may, on recommendation of the 
Executive Committee, be elected as fellows. At the meeting at which 
this is adopted, the members of the Executive Committee for 1894 and 
fifteen others shall be elected fellows, and those honorary members 
shall become honorary fellows. Honorary fellows may be elected on 
account of special prominence in science, on the written recommendation 
of two members of the Academy. In any case a three-fourths yote of 
the members present shall elect. 
ARTICLE III. 
Section 1. The officers of this Academy shall be chosen by ballot at 
the annual meeting, and shall hold office one vear. They shall consist of 
a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Press Secre- 
tary, Editor, and Treasurer, who shall perform the duties usually per- 
taining to their respective offices and in addition, with the ex-Presidents 
of the Academy, shall constitute an Executive Committee. The President 
shall, at each annual meeting, appoint two members to be a committee 
which shall prepare the programs and have charge of the arrangements 
for all meetings for one year. 
Sec. 2. The annual meeting of the Academy shall be held in the city 
of Indianapolis within the week following Christmas of each year, unless 
otherwise ordered by the Executive Committee. There shall also be a 
summer meeting at such time and place as may be decided upon by the 
Pxecutive Committee. Other meetings may be called at the discretion of 
the Executive Committee, shall constitute the council of the Academy, 
and represent it in the transaction of any necessary business not espe- 
cially provided for in this constitution, in the interim between general 
meetings. 
Sec. 3. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 
meeting by a three-fourths majority of the attending members of at least 
one year’s standing. No question of amendment shal. be decided on the 
day of its presentation. 
BY-LAWS. 
1. On motion, any special department of science shall be assigned to 
a curator, whose duty it shall be, with the assistance of the other mem- 
