1891.] 



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Boston, Mass. ; N. H. Colony Historical Society, New Haven, 

 Conn. ; Society of Natural Science?, Buflfalo, N. Y. ; Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Pennsylvania, Dr. Bushrod W. James, Messrs. 

 B. S. Lyman, MacCalla & Company, Philadelphia ; Oommissao 

 Geographica e Geologica, San Paulo, Brazil. 



The following decease of members was announced : 



Prof. J. A. Froude, London, England, October 20, 1894, 

 get. 77. 



Col. Garrick Mallery, Jr., Washington, D. C, October 25, 

 1894, set. 63. 



Dr. William Goodell, Philadelphia, October 27, 1894, aet. 65. 



On motion the President was authorized to appoint at his 

 leisure a suitable person to prepare the obituary notice of Dr. 

 Goodell. 



The consideration of the amendments to the Laws, post- 

 poned from the last meeting, came up as the stated business of 

 the Society. 



On motion, the consideration of the pending amendments 

 v^as resumed. 



Dr. Greene moved that the further consideration of Articles 

 1-5 inclusive, Chapter I, be indefinitely postponed, which 

 motion was carried, ayes 16, nays 7. 



Sections 6 and 7, Chapter I, were put to a vote and carried 

 as follows : 



Section 6. Such members as reside witliin thirty miles of the hall of 

 the Society, and such other members as desire to vote at the meetings and 

 elections, shall pay an admission fee of ten dollars, and annually there- 

 after, on the first Friday of January, a contribution of five dollars. The 

 pajnnent of one hundred dollars at one time, by a member not in arrears, 

 shall exempt him from all future annual payments. 



Section 7. Members-elect, residing within thirty miles of the hall, 

 shall lose the right of membership unless they subscribe the Laws and 

 pay their admission fee within one year after their election. Any mem- 

 ber liable to an annual contribution, who shall neglect or refuse to pay 

 the same for the terra of two years, shall be notified by the Treasurer in 

 writing, on or before the second Friday in January after such default, 

 that his rights as a member are suspended ; and, in case the said arrears, 

 together with the contribution due on the first Friday in January after 

 such notice, shall not be paid to the Treasurer on or before tlie said last- 

 named day, the membership of such defaulting member shall be forfeited, 



