STATUTES 



AND 



STANDING VOTES 



of Tin: 



AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



{Adopted May 30, 1854: amended September 8, 1857, JV5 her 12, 1862, May 24, 1864, 



November 9, 1870, February 11, 1873, and January 26, 1876.) 



CHAPTER I. 



Of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. 



1. The Academy consists of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. They are arranged in 

 three classes, according to the Arts and Sciences in which they are severally proficient, viz. : 

 Class I. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Class II. The Natural and Physiological 

 Sciences ; Class III. The Moral and Political Sciences. Each Class is divided into four Sections, 

 viz. : Class I. Section 1. Mathematics ; Section 2. Practical Astronomy and Geode.-y ; Section 3. 

 Physics and Chemistry ; Section 4. Technology and Engineering. Class II. Section 1. Geology, 

 Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe ; Section 2. Botany ; Section 3. Zoology and Physiology ; 

 Section 4. Medicine and Surgery. Class III. Section 1. Philosophy and Jurisprudence ; Section 2. 

 Philology and Archaeology; Section 3. Political Economy and History; Section 4. Literature and 

 the Fine Arts. 



2. Fellows resident in the State of Massachusetts can alone vote at the meetings of the 

 Academy. 1 They shall each pay to the Treasurer the sum of ten dollars on admission, and an 

 annual assessment of ten dollars, with such additional sum, not exceeding five dollars, as the 

 Academy shall, by a standing vote, from time to time determine. 



3. Fellows residii 

 Associate Fellows. Thev shall 



suished as 



The 



