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45. General Regulations of the Linnean Society of Paris * 
—Art.I. The Linnean Society of Paris is composed of 
Resident members; of Auditors; and of Honorary and Cer- 
responding members throughout the world. It annually elects 
a President, and two Vice Presidents. The Secretary is 
perpetual. 
The Honorary members have a special right of eligibility 
to all offices of the institution, and when in Paris, have aseat 
and vote in all meetings of the mother Society. There ex- 
ist seventy-one honorary members 
The Auditors are selected among those persons whose 
pursuits are not confined to natural sciences, and who can by 
their literary talents, practical skill, and liberal services, add 
lustre and celebrity to the object of the Institution. These, 
with the corresponding members, who are very numerous, 
have also the privilege of a seat and vote. The numberis, 
thought to be nearly seven hundred. 
The 5th Class is that of the ladies, associées libres. They 
have seats at the two general and public meetings of the 
24th May, and 28th of December, and once every three, 
months. The task of ornamenting the Linowan Hall, and 
the arrangements of the annual festival, are exclusively com- 
mitted to their care. ‘They are twenty-four in number. 
Art. I]. Seven or more Corresponding members, re- 
siding in any distant city, or district, are priviliged to organize 
themselves as a colony or branch of the Linnzan Society of 
Paris, and adopt such regulations as they please, not incon- 
sistent with those of the Parent Society, who appoint their 
President as an Honorary member, and perpetual in his of- 
fice. With him and the Secretary of the section, the official 
correspondence, and the scientific communications, are ex- 
changed. The sections are allowed also to elect resident as- 
sociates in their own district ; and from these, by their una- 
nimous vote, they may choose or present Honorary or Cor- 
ponding members of the Paris institution, from which being 
elect, they are entitled to a diploma. 
Art. Tf. All Linnean members are obliged to contribute 
for the general stock of useful knowledge, of improvements 
* Forwarded, together with an account of the hail-rod, by Dr. F. 
Pascalis, President of the New-York Section of the Limnzan Society ff 
Paris, for insertion in this Journal. : 
