646 PROCEEDINGS OF BOSTON MEETING. 



specified in the By-Laws, Chapter II, Clause 4. The Auditors shall examine the 

 accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer, and any member or members of the 

 Council may be present during the examination. The report of the Auditors shall 

 be rendered to the Society before the adjournment of the meeting, and the Society 

 shall take appropriate action. 



Chapter VI. 



OF PUBLICATIONS. 



1. The publications are in charge of the Council and under its control. 



2. One copy of each publication shall be sent to each Fellow, Correspondent and 

 Patron, and each author shall receive thirty (30) copies of his memoir. 



Chapter VII. 



OF THE PUBLICATION FUND. 



1, The Publication Fund shall consist of moneys paid by the general public for 

 publications of the Society, of donations made in aid of publication, and of the 

 sums paid in commutation of dues, according to the By-Laws, chapter I, clause 2. 



2. Donors to this fund, not Fellows of the Society, in the sum of two hundred 

 dollars, shall be entitled, without charge, to the publications subsequently appear- 

 ing. 



Chapter VIII, 



of order of business. 



1. The Order of Business at Winter Meetings shall be as follows : 



(1) Call to order by the presiding officer. 



(2) Introductory ceremonies. 



(3) Report of the Council (including reports of the officers). 



(4) Appointment of the Auditing Committee. 



(5) Declaration of the vote for officers, and election by the meeting in case 



of failuV-e to elect by the Society through transmitted ballots. 



(6) Declaration of the vote for Fellows. 



(7) Deferred business. 



(8) New business. 



(9) Announcements. 



(10) Necrology. 



(11) Reading of scientific papers. 



2. At an adjourned session the order shall be resumed at the place reached on 

 the previous adjournment, but new business will be in order before the reading of 

 scientific papers. 



3. At the Summer Meeting the items of business under numbers (3), (4), (5), 

 (10) shall be omitted. 



4. At any Special Meeting the order of business shall be numbers (1), (2), (3), 

 (9), followed by the special business for which the meeting was called. 



