full and comprehensive statements as circumstances will allow, covering the 

 status of their departments with especial reference to the work proposed 

 by the Institution in the Pacific Ocean. 



ARTICLE IX 



THE HONORS OF THE INSTITUTION 



1 . On recommendation of the President, accompanied by the written 

 endorsement of not less than three-fourths of the members of the Honorary 

 Scientific Council for the time being, the Board of Trustees may direct that 

 the Institution take official recognition of any distinguished service to 

 science. 



2. Such recognition shall take the form of diplomas, medals, or any 

 special form the Trustees may direct, but shall in every case be accom- 

 panied by a document which wath other facts shall state the nature of the 

 service the recipient has rendered to science, and shall bear such devices as 

 may from time to time be agreed upon by the Trustees, and shall be 

 signed by the President of the Institution, the Chairman and the Secretary 

 of the Board of Trustees, the Chairman of the Scientific Council and such 

 other members of the Institution as they may mutually agree upon. 



3. In recognition of financial assistance given in trust to the Pacific 

 Scientific Institution or any of its departments for the forwarding of its 

 work, the Trustees shall, in accordance with the Charter of Incorporation of 

 the Institution, establish and recognize the following classes of contributors: 



(a) The person or persons contributing to the general establishment 

 and maintenance of the Institution a sum sufficient in the judgment of the 

 Trustees to establish the Institution, shall be known ever after as the 

 FOUNDERS of the Pacific Scientific Institution. 



(b) Persons or institutions making substantial contributions to the 

 same general object at a later period, shall be styled the BENEFACTORS 

 of the Pacific Scientific Institution. 



(c) Persons or institutions providing from lime to time the equipment 

 of any one of the departments of the Institution to be established, and at 

 the same time providing a sufficient endowment with which to maintain the 



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