CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS IX 



There shall also be elected at the same time a Finance Com- 

 mittee of three. 



Article V. The officers named in Article IV shall consti- 

 tute a Council, which shall be the executivie body of the Academy 

 with general control over its affairs, including the power to 

 fill ad interim any vacancies that may occur in the offices. Past 

 Presidents of the Academy shall be ex-officio members of the 

 Council. 



Article VI. Societies organized for the study of any branch 

 of science may become allied with the New York Academy of 

 Sciences by consent of the Council. Members of allied societies 

 may become Active Members of the Academy by paying the 

 Academy's annual fee, but as members of an allied society they 

 shall be Associate Members with the rights and privileges of other 

 Associate Members, except the receipt of its publications. Each 

 allied society shall have the right to delegate one of its members, 

 who is also an Active Member of the Academy, to the Council of 

 the Academy, and such delegate shall have all the rights and 

 privileges of other Councilors. 



Article VII. The President and Vice-Presidents shall not 

 be eligible to more than one re-election until three years after 

 retiring from office ; the Secretaries and Treasurer shall be eligi- 

 ble to re-election without limitation. The President, Vice-pres- 

 idents, and Secretaries shall be Fellows. The terms of office of 

 elected Councilors shall be three years, and these officers shall be 

 so grouped that two, at least one of whom shall be a Fellow, shall 

 be elected and two retired each year. Councilors shall not be 

 eligible to re-election until after the expiration of one year. 



Article VIII. The election of officers shall be by ballot, 

 and the candidates having the greatest number of votes shall 

 be declared duly elected. 



Article IX. Ten members, the majority of whom shall be 

 Fellows, shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Academy 

 at which business is transacted. 



Article X. The Academy shall establish by-laws, and may 

 amend them from time to time as therein provided. 



Article XI. This constitution may be amended by a vote of 

 not less than three-fourths of the fellows and three-fourths of 



