104 Letter to the Academy of Berlin. 
the management of its finances, and, above all, the: direc- 
tion of the academy towards objects of public utility, fhall be 
-the province of the directory. Its deliberations fhall be de- 
cided by a plurality of votes. Each member fhall have one,. 
and the prefident two. 
The influence and rights of the directors in their lilies 
feem. alfo to require to be more particularly defined and. re- 
gulated; and the academy will take care to make proyifion 
on this head by an article in its regulations. 
__ The members of the academy fhall be either honorary, or 
ordinary.. The former, not being properly obliged to.en- 
gage in its labours, cannot enjoy any of the lucrative ad- 
vantages of the academy, except in regard to medals,in cafe 
they are prefent. The ordinary members {hall be divided as 
hitherto into four claffes. 
Each clafs fhall be compofed of a direGtor and fix mem- 
bers, which will form a whole of 24 academicians, befides 
the members of the directory. It will be proper to adhere 
in future to that number, and not to admit new members 
but when there are vacancies. There can therefore be no 
new election but when the members of each clafs are below 
fixin number. As at prefent there are clafleswhich haye more, 
it may perhaps be poffible to transfer fome of them to the 
claffes which have not the fixed number, or to thofe which 
have fewer fupernumeraries, in order to eftablith a kind of 
equality between the claffes, and by thefe means to approach 
as near as poffible to the order to be obferved in future. In 
the laft place, the right of eleCting its members fhall be pre-. 
ferved to the academy ; and this eleétion fhall be determined, 
by a plurality of voices of allthe members. I, however, re- 
ferve to myfelf that of confirming or rejecting. 
The Jarge public library at Berlin, as well as the pr 2a 
of natural curiofities, fhall be united in future with the aca- 
demy, and entrufted to its direction. It will be therefore 
neceflary to determine, by a regulating article, the arrange- 
ments to be made in that refpeét ; and as it will be requifite 
that 
