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Should this proposed amendment be carried, associates who have 

 paid dues at the old rate for 1899, will not be required to pay any- 

 more for this year. Associates paying after the receipt of this 

 notice will be required to pay $1.00. At present there are more 

 than one hundred active members on our list. None of these will 

 be dropped from the active list and no more will be added until 

 the number falls below one hundred. When this occurs, active 

 members will be elected from the associate list in the order in 

 which they were admitted to the Chapter. 



Amendments to the Constitution of the Linnaean Fern Chapter. 



The number of the Bulletin containing the Constitution has 

 become so rare that some of our readers have never seen it. It 

 has therefore been decided to reprint the Constitution in the forth- 

 coming Annual Report. Before this can be done it seems necessary 

 to make a few changes in it to bring it up to date, and these are 

 embodied in the following amendments, which members will vote 

 upon at once. 



Art. III. — Strike out Sections 2, 3 and 4, and insert as fol- 

 lows : 



"Sec 2. Membership shall consist of Active and Associate 

 members. 



"Sec. 3. Active membership shall consist of not more than 

 one hundred members. Vacancies in the Active membership shall 

 be filled by the Executive Council, who shall elect such members 

 from those in the Associate class in the order of their admission 

 to the Chapter. 



"Sec 4 Applications for Associate membership shall be 

 made to the Secietary, who shall report such applications to the 

 Executive Council. The Executive Council shall have full power 

 to elect, and one adverse ballot shall exclude. 



"Sec. 5. Regular dues shall be one dollar annually, payable 

 in January of each year." 



In Sec. 5, strike out " 5 " and insert "6." Also strike out the 

 word "six" in the first line and insert "two." 



Art. IV. — Strike out the first three lines and insert, "mem- 

 bers are expected to report quarterly to the President the results 

 of their studies. He shall." 



Art. VIII.— Sec. 2. Strike out the words, " In good standing.' 



Every Active member may vote upon these amendments. 

 Those not voting will be counted in the affirmative. Voting ends 

 Feb. 1, 1899. All votes should be addressed to the new Secretary, 

 Will R. Maxon, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New 

 York City. 



