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Amendments of the Constitution. — The following amendments 

 of Article VI of the Constitution, which were proposed by the 

 Treasurer and which had been duly presented at the twenty second 

 meeting, were adopted by unanimous vote of the members present : 



XIII. 1 New section — 2. Privileges of membership begin with 

 payment of dues. Candidates for membership, if elected, shall 

 not be entitled to any of the privileges of membership before they 

 pay the dues for the fiscal year in which their election occurs. 



XIV. Substitute for former section 2 : Section 3. Penalty 

 for non-payment of dues. Members in arrears for dues for a 

 period of three consecutive years shall thereupon forfeit their 

 membership, but may be reinstated by the Council. 



Twenty fourth meeting. 



Carnegie Institution 's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold 

 Spring Harbor ; Long Island, New York. June 22 > 1907. Presi- 

 dent Flexner in the chair. 



Members present: Atkinson, Beebe, Carrel, Davenport, Don- 

 aldson, Ewing, Field, Flexner, Gibson, Gies, Hatcher, Lusk, 

 Meltzer, Meyer, Shaffer, Wallace, Wadsworth. 



Members elected : C. H. Bunting, Rufus I. Cole, Charles W. 

 Duval, William W. Ford, Frederick P. Gay, Isaac F. Harris, 

 James W. Jobling, Oskar Klotz, Paul A. Lewis, Thomas B. Os- 

 borne, H. T. Ricketts. 



Amendments X, XI and XII were given on page 89 of Volume III of the 

 Proceedings. Amendment X is included in recommendation 5 of the " special report 

 of the council." The numerals before the amendments at the bottom of page 89 of 

 Volume III of the Proceedings should have been XI and XII respectively. 



