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the Academy at its regular annual meeting. The officers 

 thus elected shall enter upon their duties at the adjourn- 

 ment of the meeting. 



ARTICLE VI, MEETINGS. 



1. Meeting. The Annual Meeting shall be held dur- 

 ing the Thanksgiving recess, the place being determined 

 by the Executive Committee and announced by circular at 

 least thirty days before the meeting. The details of the 

 daily session of each meeting shall be arranged by the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, and announced in the official program 

 immediately before the meeting. 



2. Field Meeting. A field meeting may be called at 

 the option of the Executive Committee. 



3. Special Meeting. A special meeting of the 

 Academy may be called by the Executive Committee upon 

 the written request of twenty Resident Members. 



4. Quorum. Fifteen Resident Members shall consti- 

 tute a quorum for the transaction of business. 



ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS. 



1. Members not less than fifteen in number may by 

 special permission of the Academy unite to form a Section 

 for the investigation of any branch of Science. Each Sec- 

 tion shall bear the name of the science which it represents, 

 thus: The Section of Geology of The Ohio Academy of 

 Science. 



2. Each Section is empowered to perfect its own 

 organization as limited by the Constitution and By-Laws 

 of the Academy. 



ARTICLE VIII, AMENDMENTS. 



1. This Constitution may be amended at any annual 

 meeting by a three-fourths vote of all Resident Members 

 voting, provided that the substance of the amendment shall 

 have been submitted at a preceding Annual Meeting. 



