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committees shall be appointed immediately 

 after the annual election of the President, to 

 serve until their successors are designated. 



Sec. 3. The committees of the Society and of 

 the Board of Managers shall be appointed by 

 the President except when otherwise provided. 

 The President shall be a member ex officio of 

 every committee. 



Article VI. — Finances. 



Section i. The fiscal year of the Society 

 shall begin on the first day of January. 



Sec. 2. The annual dues of members shall be 

 two dollars, payable in January. 



Sec. 3. Fellows shall pay an initiation fee of 

 ten dollars on notice of election. 



Sec. 4. Members or fellows may commute 

 annual dues and acquire life membership by 

 the payment at one time of fifty dollars. 



Sec. 5. Members or fellows whose dues re- 

 main unpaid on March i shall be notified by 

 the Treasurer that unless the dues are paid 

 within one month they will be in arrears and 

 not entitled to vote at the annual meeting, to 

 receive the publications of the Society, or to 

 purchase lecture tickets on members' terms. 

 Members or fellows one year in arrears shall, 

 after formal notification, be regarded as having 

 withdrawn from the Society. 



Sec. 6. The funds of the Society may be in- 

 vested and loans may be negotiated in the in- 

 terests of the Society, and any other financial 

 business germane to the purposes of the 

 Society may be transacted, by the Board of 

 Managers. 



Article VII. — Meetings. 



Section i. Regular meetings of the Society 

 shall be held on alternate Fridays from No- 

 vember until May. 



Sec. 2. Special meetings may be ordered by 

 the Board of Managers or called by the Presi- 

 dent. 



Sec. 3. The annual meeting shall be held in 

 the District of Columbia on the second Friday 

 in January. 



Sec. 4. Twenty members or fellows shall 

 constitute a quorum. 



Sec. S. Regular meetings of the Board of 

 Managers shall be held on the same days as 

 the regular meetings of the Society; special 

 meetings may be held at the call of the Presi- 

 dent or on notice signed by five members of 

 the Board : Provided, That for any of its own 

 meetings the Board may substitute meetings 

 of the Executive Committee. 



Sec. 6. Lectures and lecture courses may be 

 provided by the Board of Managers. Free ad- 

 mission to such lectures shall not be a preroga- 

 tive of membership, but tickets shall be sold to 

 members and fellows on more favorable terms 

 than to non-members : Provided, That each 

 life member who acquired life membership 

 prior to the year 1901 shall be entitled to two 

 admissions to each lecture and course. 



Article VIII. — Publications. 



The Society shall publish a journal or peri- 

 odical under the title. The National Geographic 

 Magazine, which shall be sent to all members 

 and fellows of the Society not in arrears, and 

 may be placed on sale. 



Article IX. — Amendments. 



These By-Laws may be amended by a two- 

 third vote of the members present at any reg- 

 ular meeting, provided the proposed amend- 

 ments are reported by the Board of Managers, 

 and provided that notice thereof has been sent 

 to all members of the Society not less than ten 

 nor more than sixty days before the meeting. 

 The publication of proposed amendments in 

 The National Geographic Magazine shall be 

 deemed a notice within the meaning of this 

 article. 



THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY 



Friday, December 13, 1907 — "The Land of 

 the Incas." Mrs Harriet Chalmers Adams, 

 author of "The City that was Exchanged for 

 New York," "East Indians in the New World," 

 in the National Geographic Magazine for 

 June and July, 1907. Illustrated. 



December 14, 1907 — Annual Banquet. The 

 New Willard. 



Friday, December 20, l907^"The Second 

 Peace Conference at The Hague." Hon. John 

 W. Foster, formerly Secretary of State. 



Friday, January 3, 1908 — "The Geography of 

 Mars." Percival Lowell, LL.D., Director of 

 the Lowell Observatory, of Flagstaff, Arizona. 



Friday, January 10, igo8 — Annual Meeting, 



Reports and Elections. "Two Thousand Miles 

 on Muleback through the Andean Won- 

 derland." Hon. John Barrett, Director of the 

 International Bureau of American Republics. 

 Illustrated. 



Friday, January 17, 1908 — "A Camel Trip in 

 the Salt and Sand of Chinese Turkestan." 

 Mr Ellsworth Huntington, of Yale University, 

 author of "The Pulse of Asia." Illustrated. 



Friday, January 24, 1908 — "The Pelicans of 

 America : An Account of Field Studies of the 

 White Pelican in the Western States and in 

 Northwest Canada, and of the Brown Pelican 

 in Florida." Mr Frank M. Chapman, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. Illus- 

 trated. 



