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Scientific Proceedings (124). 



Section j. Nominations. — A. At each annual meeting there 

 shall be elected a Nominating Committee consisting of seven 

 members from as many different scientific institutions, to serve 

 for the ensuing year. For the term ending with the annual 

 meeting in 1922, this committee shall be appointed by the Presi- 

 dent. For all ensuing terms, candidates for service on this com- 

 mittee shall be nominated by a primary vote of the whole Society 

 and elected, by ballot, by the members in attendance at the an- 

 nual business meetings. The Secretary of the Society shall act 

 as the secretary of this committee. 



B. Every member of the Society shall be eligible to member- 

 ship in the Nominating Committee, but no one shall be eligible 

 to serve more than two terms in succession. 



C. It shall be the duty of the Nominating Committee to 

 present to the Secretary of the Society, before the March meet- 

 ing, at least one nomination for each of the elective offices. 



Section 4. Election. — A. It shall be the duty of the Secre- 

 tary to forward to all the members of th e Society, with the pre- 

 liminary announcements of the April meeting, an official ballot 

 giving a list of all nominations made regularly by the Nominating 

 Committee, with spaces for the insertion of independent votes 

 for the officers and for the primary nominations for members in 

 the new Nominating Committee. With the presentation of this 

 list, the Secretary shall notify the members of the Society that 

 each may participate in the election of all the officers and in the 

 primary nomination of members of the Nominating Committee. 



The Secretary shall present to the tellers, appointed by the 

 President to take charge of the election, all signed ballots for- 

 warded by absent members or received from members in attend- 

 ance. 



B. At each annual business meeting, immediately after the an- 

 nouncement of the returns of the primary nominations for mem- 

 bership in the Nominating Committee, the members present shall 

 elect, from those thus formally put in primary nomination, the 

 members of the new Nominating Committee, at least Jour of whom 

 shall be resident members. The term of office shall be for the 

 ensuing year. 



