Constitution 147 



ARTICLE IX 

 The Nominating Committee shall be composed of three 

 Trustees, to whom shall be first submitted the names of any 

 persons proposed as candidates for election to membership in 

 the Board of Trustees. The Committee shall report on such 

 candidates from time to time, as it may deem to be for the 

 interest of the Museum. A fortnight before the annual meet- 

 ing they shall prepare and mail to each member of the Board of 

 Trustees a list of the candidates for officers and Trustees 

 to be balloted for at the said meeting. 



ARTICLE X 

 Nine Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 

 of business, but five Trustees meeting may adjourn and trans- 

 act current business, subject to the subsequent approval of a 

 meeting at which a quorum shall be present. 



ARTICLE XI 

 By-Laws may be made from time to time by the Trustees 

 providing for the care and management of the property of the 

 Corporation and for the government of its affairs, and may 

 be amended at any meeting of the Trustees by a vote of a 

 majority of those present, after a month's notice in writing of 

 such proposed amendment. 



ARTICLE XII 



The incorporators of The American Museum of Natural 

 History shall be designated as Founders of the Museum. 



Any person contributing or devising $50,000 in cash, securi- 

 ties or property to the funds of the Museum may be elected a 

 Benefactor of the Museum. 



Any person contributing $25,000 in cash, securities or 

 property to the funds of the Museum may be elected an 

 Associate Founder of the Museum, who after being so elected 

 shall have the right in perpetuity to appoint the successor in 

 such associate foundership. 



Any person contributing $10,000 to the funds of the Museum 

 may be elected an Associate Benefactor of the Museum, who 

 after being so elected shall have the right in perpetuity to 

 appoint the successor in such associate benefactorship. 



