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45. General Regulations of the Linnean Society of Paris.* 
—Art. I. The Linnwan Society of Paris is cempced of 
Resident members ; of Auditors; and of Hono rary and Cor- 
responding members throughout the world. It annually elects 
a President, and two Vice Presidents. The Secretary is 
perpetual. 
The Honorary members have a special right of eligibility 
to all offices of the institution, and when in Paris, have a seat 
and vote in all meetings of the mother Society. There ex- 
ist seventy-one honorary members 
#he Auditors are selected among those persons wa 
ear an are not confined to natural sciences, and who 
with the dinesnending Faakohe who aré very numerous, 
have also the Pimin ys of a seat and vote. The number is 
the arrangements of the annual festival, are exclusively com- 
mitted to their care. They are twenty-four i n number. 
Art. I]. Seven or more Corresponding members, re- 
siding in any distant city, or district, are priviliged to organize 
themselves as a colony or branch of the Linnean Society o 
Paris, and adopt such regulations as they. please, not incon- 
sistent with those of the Parent Society, who appoint t their 
President as an Honorary member, and perpetual in his 
fice. With him and the Secretary of the section, the official 
correspondence, and the scientific communications, are ex- 
changed. The sections are allowed also to elect resident as- 
sociates in their own district ; and from these, by their una- 
nimous vote, they may choose or present Honorary or Cor- 
ponding members of the Paris institution, from which being 
elect, they are entitled to a diploma. 
AK: If]. All Linnean members are obliged to contribute 
for the general stock of useful knowledge, of improvements 
* Forwarded, ther with an account of the hail-rod, by Dr. F. 
Pascalis, President af the the New-York Section of the Linnean iety of 
Paris, for insertion in this Journal. 
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