YALE INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE 



"ART. VIII. Each member of this association shall contribute trien- 

 nially five dollars, until he shall have made three pecuniary contributions, 

 to constitute a fund for the association ; except those who when elected 

 were not members of any department of Yale College, of whom shall be 

 required only the first triennial fee. And any member who shall neglect 

 payment, shall forfeit his membership, until the said payment be made. 

 All the funds shall be entrusted to the senior member of the board of 

 Curators. 



" ART. IX. There shall be annually, as soon as the funds will admit, 

 three premiums offered for the encouragement of scientific merit, viz., 

 thirty dollars for the most valuable communication made to the association 

 during the year, twenty dollars for the second in merit, and ten for the 

 third, to be awarded by the board of Curators, and presented in scientific 

 books or instruments. 



" ART. X. There shall be a catalogue published triennially containing 

 the names of all those who have fulfilled the conditions of membership, 

 with an account of the communications received from each, and a summary 

 of the affairs of the association. 



"ART. XI. The annual meeting of the association shall be held on the 

 last Wednesday in November, at which time the Curators shall report on 

 the affairs of the association generally ; the association shall then also elect 

 a Secretary and proceed to the admission of members. Other meetings 

 may be held by the call of the Curators, and may be adjourned to any day 

 by two-thirds of the members present. 



" ART. XII. There shall be an address on some subject connected with 

 the objects of this association, delivered at such place as the association 

 may appoint, on the first Wednesday in January, by an appointment made 

 one year previous. 



"ART. XIII. Every member of the association shall be entitled to a 

 copy of each of its published documents, which it shall be the duty of the 

 Secretary to forward to them. 



" ART. XIV. This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds 

 of the association at any annual meeting." 



This was the period in which Dana produced the treatise 

 on Mineralogy, which was augmented and revised at in- 

 tervals during the remainder of his life. As this was the 

 first and perhaps the most original of all his writings, 

 everything which throws light upon its origin is of in- 

 terest. I remember well how anxious Dana was at a 

 certain time to see the first and the last edition of Lin- 

 naeus, in order that he might trace from their sources the 

 conclusions of that student of the system of nature. So 



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