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ance of New York with the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 considered at a meeting of the Council of the AUiance held 

 April I r, igo6, based on the plan outlined in my letter to you of 

 February 8, 1906, was unanimously adopted by the Council, 

 delegates from all the societies being present, as follows : 



In order to enforce the further unification of scientific organiza- 

 tion and the development of science in the City of New York, the 

 following arrangements are proposed, made possible by the pres- 

 ent concentration of interest in natural science at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and the increased resources of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences. 



1. Societies organized for the study of any branch of science 

 may become affiliated with the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 without surrendering their own name, or losing their identity or 

 autonomy, by consent of the Council of the Academy. 



2. Members of the affiliated societies may become members of 

 the Academy by paying the Academy's annual fee, but as mem- 

 bers of the affiliated societies they shall be associate members of 

 the Academy, with the rights and privileges of such associate 

 members, except the receipt of its publications, without paying 

 an additional fee. 



3. In order to obtain the right to vote or to hold office in any 

 of the associate societies thus affiliated, or to receive their publi- 

 cations, members of the Academy must pay annual dues to such 

 society as well as those of the Academy, but all other privileges 

 of membership would be included in the Academy's annual 

 dues. 



4. The New York Academy of Sciences, to encourage the 

 work of societies thus affiliated with it by furnishing means for 

 paying distinguished lecturers, by awarding grants to aid scientific 

 investigation by their members, by providing facilities for their 

 meetings at the present place of the Academy, or in other ways 

 that may become practicable. 



5. Each society thus affiliated with the New York Academy 

 of Sciences to have the right to delegate one of its members to 

 the Council of the Academy, this delegate being selected from 

 such members of the society as are also members of the Acad- 

 emy, or being made so by his society's paying his dues while a 

 delegate. 



6. Societies thus affiliated may at their option indicate on 

 their publications their affiliation with the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. 



7. Notices of all meetings or other functions of the Academy 

 and of its sections and of the affiliated societies to be mailed 



