THE SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOPHYSICISTS 
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
(As amended 1935) 
I NAME 
This Association shall be called the “Society of Petroleum Geophysicists.”’ 
II OBJECT 
The object of this Association is to promote the science of geophysics especially as 
it relates tc petroleum geology and to the discovery and production of oil and natural 
gas and associated minerals. 
III MEMBERSHIP 
A. Members 
I. 
Any geophysicist of recognized standing shall be eligible to membership, whether 
or not he is engaged in petroleum geophysics or in geophysical prospecting. 
. Any physicist, mathematician, geologist, or engineer of recognized standing who 
is investigating a geophysical problem or problems shall be eligible to member- 
ship. 
. Any geologist of recognized standing who is not a geophysicist of recognized 
standing, but who is acting as chief, or division chief in charge of geophysical 
surveying, shall be eligible to membership. 
B. Associates 
I. 
Any geophysicist, geologist, engineer, mathematician, or physicist who is a 
graduate of an institution of recognized scientific standing who is engaged in 
geophysics and who is not eligible to membership shall be eligible to associate 
membership. 
. Any person who is not a graduate of an institution of recognized scientific stand- 
ing and who is not eligible to membership and who has shown ability in a routine 
phase of geophysical work and who is in a position of responsibility in geo- 
physical surveying shall be eligible to associate membership. 
. Any representative or employee of a firm or corporation engaged in supplying 
equipment or supplies to the geophysical prospecting industry, provided such 
individual is the graduate of an institution of recognized scientific standing, or 
provided otherwise that such individual is qualified by adequate technical 
experience shall be eligible to associate membership. 
. Associate members shall be known as associates. 
. Associates shall enjoy all the privileges of membership in the Society, save that 
they shall not hold office, sign applications for membership, or vote; neither 
shall they have the privilege of advertising their affiliation with the Society in 
professional cards or professional reports or otherwise. 
. The executive committee may advance to active membership, without the 
formality of application for such change, those associates who have, subsequent 
to election fulfilled the requirements for active membership. 
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