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member shall be selected by the Academy to furnish a bio- 
graphical notice of the deceased at the next stated session. 
If such notice be not then furnished, another member shall 
be selected by the Academy in place of the first, and so on 
until the duty is performed. 
X. The deaths of such eminent scientific men of the 
country as have taken place since the last session of the 
Academy shall be announced by the President. The names 
shall be selected by the Council. 
XI. All discussions as to the claims and qualifications of 
candidates, whether at meetings of the Sections, the Classes, 
or the Academy, will be held strictly confidential, and re- 
marks and criticisms then made may be communicated to no 
person who was not a member of the Academy at the time 
of the discussion. 
ON SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, 
; D REPORTS. 
XH. An analysis of the memoirs and reports read in the 
meetings of the Classes shall be given by the Secretaries of 
the Classes to the Home Secretary for publication in the 
proceedings of the Academy. For any failure in this duty, 
the delinquent officer shall be impeached by the Home Sec- 
retary. 
XIII. The Secretaries shall receive memoirs at any time, 
and report the date of their reception at the next session. 
_ But no memoir shall be published unless it has been 
before the Academy, Class, or Section, and ordered to es 
published by the Academy. Papers shall be published 19 
the order in which they were registered, but papers whit 
have not been sent to the Secretary within a month from 
1¢ time of their reading shall not be published without @ 
