Sec. 3. This constitution may be altered or amended at any annual 

 meeting by a three-fourths majority of the attending members of at least 

 one year's standing. No question of amendment shall be decided on the 

 day of its presentation. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. On motion, any special department of science shall be assigned to 

 a curator, whose duty it shall be, with the assistance of the other members 

 interested in the same department, to endeavor to advance knowledge in 

 that particular department. Each curator shall report at such time and 

 place as the Academy shall direct. These reports shall include a brief 

 summary of the progress of the department during the year preceding the 

 presentation of the report. 



2. The President shall deliver a public address on the morning of one 

 of the days of the meeting at the expiration of his term of office. 



3. The Press Secretary shall attend to the securing of proper news- 

 paper reports of the meetings and assist the Secretary. 



4. No special meeting of the Academy shall be held without a notice 

 of the same having been sent to the address of each member at least fifteen 

 days before such meeting. 



5. No bill against the Academy shall be paid without an order signed 

 by the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 



6. Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two 

 years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the Treasurer, 

 shall have their names stricken from the roll. 



7. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of 

 business. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORTS 



AND PAPERS OF THE INDIANA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



[Approved March 11, 1895.] 



Whereas, The Indiana Academy of Science, a chartered scientific 



association, has embodied in its constitution a provision that it will, upon 



the request of the Governor, or of the several departments of the State 



