CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



CONSTITUTION. 



ARTICLE I. 



The Society shall be called the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. 



article II. 



It shall consist of Associate, Corporate, Corresponding, and 

 Honorary Members, and Patrons. 



ARTICLE III. 



All Members shall be chosen by ballot, after having been 

 nominated at a preceding meeting; the affirmative votes of 

 three-fourths of the Corporate Members present shall be nec- 

 essary to a choice. The nomination of Corporate, Correspond- 

 ing and Honorary Members shall proceed from the Council. 

 Any person who shall contribute, at one time, to the funds of 

 the Society, a sum not less than three hundred dollars, shall be 

 a Patron. 



