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Sec. 3. The members who are actively engaged in scientific work, 
who have recognized standing as scientific men, and who have been 
members of the Academy at least one year, may be recommended for 
nomination for election as fellows by three fellows or members per- 
sonally acquainted with their work and character. Of members so 
nominated a number not exceeding five in one year may, on recom- 
mendation of the Executive Committee, be elected as fellows. At the 
meeting at which this is adopted, the members of the Executive Com- 
mittee for 1894 and fifteen others shall be elected fellows, and those 
now honorary members shall become honorary fellows. Honorary fel- 
lows 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 vote 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 year. They shall con- 
sist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Press 
Secretary, Editor, and Treasurer, who shall perform the duties usually 
pertaining to their respective offices and in addition, with the ex-Presi- 
dents of the Academy, shall constitute an Executive Committee. The 
President shall, at each annual meeting, appoint two members to be a 
conamittee 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 Indianapoiis 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 Executive Committee. Other meetings may be called at the dis- 
cretion of the Executive Committee. The past President, together with 
the officers and Executive Committee, shall constitute the council of the 
Academy, and represent it in the transaction of any necessary business 
not especially provided for in this constitution, in the interim between 
general meetings. 
SEc. 2. 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 shall 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 
members interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance 
knowledge in that particular department. Each curator shall report at 
such time and place as the Academy shall direct. These reports shall 
include a brief summary of the progress of the department during the 
year preceding the presentation of the report. 
