By-Laws.] 296 [February 18, 



shall be appointed by the Society at a stated meeting, to bring in at 

 a subsequent meeting one or more nominations of persons to fill each 

 such vacancy; but additional nominations may also be made in any 

 other way. 



"Article 2. No person shall be elected to any office until his 

 nomination has been under consideration by the Society for at least 

 two weeks." 



And, in consequence, that Sections II to X of the By-Laws 

 become Sections III to XI, respectively. 



Section II. Articles 7 and 8. 

 That the words ' Committees on Departments of the Museum ' be 

 substituted for the word ' Committees,' where this word occurs for 

 the first time in each of these Articles. 



Section V. Article 2. 



That the word ' of ' be changed to ' on ' after the word ' Commit- 

 tee.' 



Section VI. Article 1. 



For the words ' Committee on Publications,' read ' Publishing 

 Committee.' 



February 18, 1874. 



The President in the chair. Fifty-seven persons present. 



The following papers were read : — 

 On Amber in North America. By Dr. H. A. Hagen. 



It may, perhaps, not be inopportune to draw" the attention of 

 American geologists to an American paper published fifty years ago, 

 and treating of an interesting geological fact in a very interesting 

 manner, and nevertheless almost entirely overlooked since, at least 

 by all foreign naturalists. 



