240 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [8 :6— Sept., 1912 



News and Notes 



The publisher of the magazine must certify to the postal 

 authorities in order to get the second class rates that the sub- 

 scription list is ''paid in advance." The Review has been lenient 

 heretofore. It is now in financial position to change its policy. 

 The date of expiration of your subscription is now on your label. 

 If you desire the magazine please pay before the old subscription 

 expires. This is the last issue that will be sent to any who have 

 not paid in advance. 



Article III of our constitution provides that "Members pay- 

 ing twenty dollars at any one time shall be enrolled as life mem- 

 bers exempt from annual dues. Any person paying to the So- 

 ciety one hundred dollars shall be permanently enrolled as a 

 patron and entitled to all the privileges of members. All moneys 

 collected from life members and patrons shall, under the direction 

 of the Council, be invested as a permanent fund and only the 

 income used for expenses of the Society." Since the last issue 

 we have enrolled our first life members. They are: Miss Cecelia 

 Baldwin McElroy and Seth Bunker Capp, both of Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



The Annual Election of the Society will occur in Decem- 

 ber at which time a president, five vice-presidents, five directors 

 and the secretary-treasurer are to be elected. B. M. Davis is now 

 President. The Vice Presidents are M. A. Bigelow, Anna B. 

 Comstock, S. Coulter, D. J. Crosby, F. L. Holtz. The Directors 

 whose terms expire this year are E. B. Babcock, Otis W. Caldwell, 

 Anna B. Comstock, J. Dearness, Ruth Marshall. The Constitution 

 (Article IV) provides: "The Council shall make nominations 

 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." Any 

 members having nominations to make will please send the namei 

 to the editor who is also the Secretary-Treasurer. 



B. M. Davis, the president, sent in one list of fifty new sub- 

 scribers to the Review this summer. J. Dearness of Ontario also 

 turned in a goodly number. 



