CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN NATURE-STUDY SOCIETY 



Article i — Name and Objects 

 The objects of the American Nature-Study Society are, by 

 publications and by national and local meetings : ( I ) to pro- 

 mote critical investigation of all phases of nature-study (as dis- 

 tinguished from technical science) in schools, especially all 

 studies of nature in elementary schools; and (2) to work for the 

 establishment in schools of such nature-study as has been demon- 

 strated valuable and practicable for elementary education. 

 Article II — Members and Fees 



Any person interested in any phase of nature-study or ele- 

 mentary science may become a member upon election by the 

 Council. A school or library may be enrolled as a member and 

 be represented at meetings by one of its officers. 



There shall be no admission fee. The annual dues shall be 

 one dollar, payable before February first, or upon election to mem- 

 bership. The official publications of the Society shall be sent 

 without charge to members not in arrears for dues. Members 

 residing outside of the United States shall pay the necessary 

 foreign postage on publications mailed. The name of any 

 member two years in arrears for annual dues shall be omitted 

 from the list of members, but may be restored by payment of 

 arrearages or by re-election. 



Article III — Patrons and Life Members 

 Members paying twenty dollars at one time shall be en- 

 rolled as life members exempt from annual dues. Any person 

 paying to the Society one hundred dollars shall be permanently 

 enrolled as a patron and entitled to all the privileges of members. 

 All monies collected from life members and patrons shall, under 

 direction of the Council, be invested as a permanent fund and 

 only the income used for expenses of the Society. 



Article IV — Officers 

 1. The officers shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a 

 Secretary-Treasurer, an Editor (when the Society assumes finan- 

 cial control of an official journal), ten Directors elected by general 

 vote of the Society, and additional Directors elected by sectional 

 organizations as provided for in Article VI. The President, 

 Vice-Presidents and Secretary-Treasurer shall constitute an 

 Executive Committee for the transaction of routine business 

 authorized by the Council. All the officers together shall consti- 

 tute a Council with the following duties : Consider and report 



