Executive Proceedings. ( 2 59) %9 



" 5. Instruct the Council to report not only on the eligibility 

 of each candidate for membership but also on the desirability of 

 each candidate's election." 



Treasurer's report. — The main items of the treasurer's report 

 were the following : 



Expenditures, including the deficit of 1905 ($33.16) $339. 96 



Receipts 3° 2 -59 



Deficit $ 37-37 



Increase of deficit $ 4.21 



Sixteenth meeting. 



Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. April 18, ipo6. 

 President Flexner in the chair. 



Members present: Atkinson, Auer, Beebe, Buxton, Calkins, 

 Dunham, Emerson, Field, Flexner, Foster, Gibson, Gies, Herter, 

 Lee, Levene, Lusk, Meltzer, Meyer, Murlin, Noguchi, Opie, Parker, 1 

 Pratt, 1 Salant, Schwyzer, Sherman, Terry, Wolf, Wood. 



Members elected : Charles R. Bardeen, G. H. A. Clowes, N. B. 

 Foster, J. H. Kastle, Ralph S. Lillie, D. T. MacDougal, J. J. R. 

 Macleod, Robert M. Yerkes. 



Amendments of the Coiistitution. — The following amendments 

 of the Constitution, which had been duly presented at the fifteenth 

 meeting, were adopted by a unanimous vote of the members 

 present : 



Amendment X. — Change Article VII (on quorum) to read as 

 follows : " Twenty members (instead of ' a majority of the resident 

 members ') shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business." 



Amendment XL — Offered at the request of the Librarian and 

 intended to abolish the office of Librarian : 



(a) Eliminate subsection D of Section 3 of Article III. (" It 

 shall be the duty of each member to present to the Librarian one 

 copy of every publication of his researches.") 



(b) Remove " a Librarian " from Section i of Article V. (List 

 of officers.) 



(c) Strike out subsection C of Section 5 of Article V, on the 

 duties of the Librarian. 



