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Sec. 4. The academy shall be divided by the council into standing committees 

 representing the principal branches of scientiric research. A member may be 

 assigned to more than one of these committees. The president of the academy 

 shall appoint, subject to the approval of the council, a member of each committee 

 as its chairman, who shall be responsible for the work of the committee. 



Nominations to membership in the academy shall be made in writing, approved 

 by a majority of the members of the committee on the branch of research in which 

 the person nominated is eminent, or by a majority of the council in case there is no 

 committee on the subject. The nominations shall be sent to the home secretary 

 by the chairman of the committee before January i of the year in which the 

 election is to be held, and each nomination shall be accompanied by a list of the 

 principal contributions of the nominee to science. This list shall be printed by 

 the home secretary for distribution among the members of the academy. 



Sec. 5. Election of members shall be held at the annual meeting in Wash- 

 ington in the following manner : There shall be two ballots — a preference ballot, 

 which may be prepared either before or at the annual meeting and must be trans- 

 mitted to the home secretary, and a final ballot to be taken at the meeting. 



Preference ballot.— JLach member may inscribe on a ballot not more than 10 

 names of nominees selected from the submitted list. A list of the nominees shall 

 then be prepared, on which the names shall be entered in the order of the number 

 of votes received by each. In case two or more nominees should have the same 

 number of votes on this preference list, the order in which they shall be placed 

 on the list shall be determined by a majority vote of those present. 



Final ballot. — A vote shall first be taken on the nominee who appears first on 

 the preference list, and he shall be declared elected if he receive two-thirds of the 

 votes cast and not less than 20 votes in all, provided that the number of members 

 of the academy be not 150 or over, in which case to be declared elected he must 

 receive four-fifths of the votes cast and not less than 25 votes in all. A vote shall 

 then be taken in similar manner on the nominee standing second on the prefer- 

 ence list, and so on until all the nominees on the preference list shall have been 

 acted on, or until 10 nominees shall have been elected. 



Not more than 10 members shall be elected at one annual meeting. 



Before and during elections a discussion of the merits of nominees will be 

 in order. 



The election of members may be suspended at any time by a majority vote 

 of the members present. 



Sec. 6. Every member elect shall accept his membership, personally or in 

 writing, before the close of the next stated meeting after the date of his election. 

 Otherwise, on proof that the secretary has formally notified him of his election, 

 his name shall not be entered on the roll of members. 



