16 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Article XV. — Fees and Dues. 



The admission fee to be paid by members elect shall be five 

 dollars, and the annual dues, to be paid on the first of January, 

 shall be three dollars. The names of members failing to pay their 

 dues one month after written notice from the Treasurer, as pro- 

 vided in Article XI, shall be dropped from the roll, unless from 

 absence of the member from Washington or other satisfactory ex- 

 planation, the Council shall otherwise determine. 



Article XVI. — Gifts. 



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 gifts of specimens, books, pamphlets, 

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

 the Curator, who shall exhibit them before the Society at the next 

 regular meeting after their reception, and shall make such abstract 

 or entry concerning 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 Museum, in the name of the donor and of the Society ; 

 all crania and somatic specimens, in the Army Medical Museum ; 

 all books, pamphlets, photographs, clippings, and abstracts, in the 

 archives of the Society. 



Article XVII. — Amendments. 



This constitution shall not be amended except by a three-fourths 

 vote of the active members present at the annual meeting for the 

 election of officers, and after notice of the proposed change shall 

 have been given in writing at a regular meeting of the Society, at 

 least one month previously. 



Article XVIII. — Order of Business. 

 The order of business at each regular meeting shall be : 

 i. Reading the minutes of the last meeting. 



2. Report of the Council upon membership. 



3. Report of the Curator. 



4. Reading of papers and discussions. 



5. Notes and queries. 



