ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Article XIII. — Meetings. 



The regular meetings of the Society shall be held on the first and 

 the third Tuesday of each month from October to June, inclusive. 

 An annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the 

 third Tuesday of January in each year, at which only active mem- 

 bers who are not in arrears for fees shall be entitled to vote. The 

 business of the Society shall be conducted in accordance with the 

 established rules of parliamentary practice. Papers shall be lim- 

 ited to twenty minutes, after which the subject shall be thrown open 

 for discussion, remarks thereon to be limited to five minutes for 

 each speaker. At the first meeting in February the retiring presi- 

 dent shall deliver an address upon the work of the Society during 

 the preceding year. Ten active members present at any meeting 

 shall constitute a quorum. 



Article XIV. — Visitors. 



Members may invite strangers interested in Anthropology to at- 

 tend any meeting except the annual election ; but a resident of the 

 District of Columbia shall not be invited more than once during a 

 year, except with the consent of the Council. 



Article XV. — Fees. 



Each member, on joining, shall pay the sum of two dollars, and 

 two dollars for each year thereafter, commencing with the first of 

 January ensuing. The names of members failing to pay their fees 

 one month after written notice from the Treasurer, as provided in 

 Article XI, shall be dropped from the roll. 



Article XVI. — Donations. 



It shall be the duty of all members to seek to increase and per- 

 fect the materials of anthropological study in the national collec- 

 tions at Washington. All donations of specimens, books, pamph- 

 lets, maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings, shall be received 

 by the Corresponding Secretary and delivered to the Curator, who 

 shall exhibit them before the Society at the next regular meeting 

 after their reception, and shall make such abstract or entry con- 

 cerning them, in a book provided by the Society, as will secure 

 their value as materials of research ; after which all archaeological 

 and ethnological materials shall be deposited in the National 



