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meeting. The officers shall serve one year, or until their successors 

 are elected. 



Article V. — The Council. 



All business of the Society, except the election of officers at the 

 annual meeting, shall be transacted by the Council, five members of 

 which shall constitute a quorum. 



The Council shall meet one half-hour before the regular sessions 

 of the Society, and at such other times as they may be called to- 

 gether by the President. They may call special meetings of the 

 Society. 



Article VI. — The Sections. 



For active operations the Society shall be divided into four sec- 

 tions, as follows : Section A, Somatology ; Section B, Sociology ; 

 Section C, Philology, Philosophy, and Psychology ; Section D, 

 Technology. The Vice-Presidents of the Society shall be ex officio 

 chairmen of these sections respectively, and shall be designated by 

 the President to their sections after their election. It shall be the 

 duty of these sections to keep the Society informed upon the pro- 

 gress of research in their respective fields, to make special investiga- 

 tions when requested by the Council, to announce interesting dis- 

 coveries, to collect specimens, manuscripts, publications, newspaper 

 clippings, etc., and in everyway to foster their divisions of the 

 work. 



All papers presented to the sections shall be referred to the Coun- 

 cil, and through it to the Society. 



Article VII. — The President. 



The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents, 

 shall preside over the meetings of the Society and of the Council, 

 and shall appoint all committees in the Council and in the Society. 

 At the first meeting in February the retiring President shall deliver 

 an address to the Society. 



Article VIII. — The Vice-Presidents. 



The Vice-Presidents shall respectively preside over the sections 

 to which they have been designated, and represent such sections in 

 the Council and in the Society. 



Each of the Vice-Presidents shall deliver an address during the 

 year upon such subject within his department as he may select. 



