FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 149 



ARTICLE V. 



SCIENTIFIC COUXCII.. 



Sec. 1. The Executive Committee shall annually npjioint a Scientific Council 

 of not more than ten nienihers, and shall fill all vacancies. Members of the 

 Council shall hold office until their successors are appointed. 



Sec 2. The duties of the Council shall be to act as an advisory board in all 

 matters pertaining to the scientific administration of the Society, and especially 

 as to the scientific features of the Park, the promotion of zoology by publications 

 and otherwise, and the preservation of the native fauna of America. 



Sec 3. Four members, including the Chairman, shall constitute a quorum. 

 The Chairman shall be elected annually by the Council. The Chairman of the 

 Executive Committee and the Secretary of the Society shall be members ex-officio 

 of the council. 



ARTICLE VI. 



MEMBERS. 



Sec 1. The present members and such others as shall become associated 

 with them, under the conditions prescribed by the By-Laws, shall be members of 

 this Society as long as thej' shall comply with the By-Laws. 



Sec X?. Members failing to comply with these By-Laws, or for other good 

 and suflicient cause, may be expelled from the Society by the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



Sec 3. Candidates for membership shall be projiosed and seconded by mem- 

 bers of the Society. The name, occupation, and place of residence of every 

 member as proposed sliall be submitted for election to the Board of Managers or 

 the Executive Committee, and such person, when elected, shall become a member 

 upon payment of the annual dues, or of the fees as prescribed below. 



Sec. 4. There shall be a class known as Fellows, which shall consist of 

 members of the Society who have rendered marked services to science, and shall 

 be chosen by the Executive Committee. The iirivileges and dues of Fellows shall 

 be, in all respects, the same as those of regular members of the Society. 



Sec. 5. The annual dues shall be ten dollars, payable in advance, on the 

 first day of May of each year, but the Executive Committee may remit the dues 

 for the current year in the case of members elected between January 1st and May 

 1st of each year. The classes of membership shall be as follows: 



Sec 6. The payment of '^200 at one time shall constitute any member a Life 

 Member. 



A member who has paid annual dues for a period of five years may there- 

 after, at any time, upon the payment of the difference between the amount of 

 dues already paid and ^200, become a Life Member, but such payment shall be 

 not less than $100. 



Sec 7. The payment of .$1,000 at one time, or in the case of a Life Member, 

 of $800, shall constitute any memiier a Patron. 



Sec 8. The payment of $:2,500 at one time, or in the case of a Patron of 

 $1,500, or of a Life Member of $'2,:>00, shall constitute any member an Associate 

 Founder. 



Sec 9. Any memlier who shall donate to the Society $5,000, or property 

 of equal value, or any Associate Founder who shall donate $:J,500, or any Patron 

 who shall donate $4,000, may be elected by the Board of Managers or Executive 

 Committee a Founder. 



