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to the Society all business proposed for a general vote and man- 

 age the business of the Society according to the constitution and 

 by-laws. The term of office for the President and Vice-Presi- 

 dents shall be one year, for the Secretary-Treasurer and Editor 

 two years, and for the Directors two years (five of the first 

 Directors shall be elected for one year and five for two years). 



2. Election of Officers. The Council shall make nomina- 

 tions for all offices and publish them in the official journal 

 before November fifteenth of each year. Members and fellows 

 shall have the right to suggest nominations by mail, and any name 

 thus receiving at least twenty-five votes before October fifteenth 

 shall be published with the nominations by the Council. The 

 annual election shall be held in the last week of December, at a 

 stated meeting if such is ordered by the Council to be held at 

 that time ; otherwise by ballots to the Secretary. Members unable 

 to attend any meeting of the Society shall have the right to mail 

 their ballot to the Secretary. All ballots mailed must reach the 

 Secretary before December twentieth, in order to be counted at 

 the annual election. A majority of the ballots voted by mail and 

 in person shall be sufficient for election. 



Any section of the Society, as provided for in Article VI, 

 consisting of more than one hundred members may elect a dele- 

 gate to serve two years as a Director in the Council of the Society. 



In case of vacancies the Council shall appoint officers for 

 unexpired terms. 



Article V — Official Publications 



All official communications approved for publication by the 

 Council shall be published in The Nature-Study Review, 

 which shall be sent free of charge (except foreign postage) to 

 all members whose annual dues have been paid. This journal 

 shall continue to be published privately and on the personal 

 responsibility, financial and editorial, of its Editor or Editors, 

 until the annual income of the Society justifies the Council in 

 assuming the management and publication as the official organ 

 of the Society. Until such official management, the Secretary- 

 Treasurer of the Society shall, before February first of each 

 year, pay to the Editor the estimated cost (not to exceed eighty 

 cents and foreign postage) of the annual subscription for each 

 member whose dues have been paid, provided that the Editor 

 contracts to return at the end of the year any unexpended 

 balance to the Treasurer of the Society. 



