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Director shall be the official medium of communication between the Board, or its 

 Committees, and the scientific staff and maintenance force. 



Sec. 2. There shall be four scientific departments of the Museum — Anthropol- 

 ogy, Botany, Geology, and Zoology, each under the charge of a Curator, subject to 

 the authority of the Director. The Curators shall be appointed by the Board upon 

 the recommendation of the Director, and shall serve during the pleasure of the 

 Board. Subordinate staff officers in the scientific departments shall be appointed 

 and removed by the Director upon the recommendation of the Curators of the 

 respective Departments. The Director shall have authority to employ and remove 

 all other employees of the Museimi. 



Sec. 3. The Director shall make report to the Board at each regular meeting, 

 recounting the operations of the Museum for the previous month. At the Annual 

 Meeting, the Director shall make an Annual Report, reviewing the work of the 

 Museum for the previous year, which Annual Report shall be published in pamphlet 

 form for the information of the Trustees and Members, and for free distribution 

 in such number as the Board may direct. 



ARTICLE VII. 



AUDITOR. 



Section i . The Board shall appoint an Auditor, who shall hold his office during 

 the pleasure of the Board. He shall keep proper books of account, setting forth the 

 financial condition and transactions of the Corporation, and of the Museum, and 

 report thereon at each regular meeting, and at such other times as may be required 

 by the Board. He shall certify to the correctness of all vouchers for the expenditure 

 of the money of the corporation. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



COMMITTEES. 



Section i. There shall be six Committees as follows: Finance, Building, Audit- 

 ing, Pension, Administration, and Executive. 



Sec. 2. The Finance, Auditing and Pension Committees shall each consist of 

 three members, and the Building and Administration Committees shall each consist 

 of five members. All members of these five Committees shall be elected by ballot 

 by theBoard at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold office for one year, and until their 

 successors are elected and qualified. In electing the members of these Committees, 

 the Board shall designate the Chairman and Vice-Chairman by the order in which 

 the members are named in the respective Committee; the first member named shall 

 be Chairman, the second named the Vice-Chairman, and the third named, Second 

 Vice-Chairman, succession to the Chairmanship being in this order in the event of 

 the absence or disability of the Chairman. 



Sec. 3. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President of the Board, 

 the Chairman of the Finance Committee, the Chairman of the Building Committee, 

 the Chairman of the Administration Committee, the Chairman of the Auditing 

 Committee, the Chairman of the Pension Committee, and two other members of the 

 Board to be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting. 



Sec 4. Four Members shall constitute a quorum of the Executive Committee; 

 three members shall constitute a quorum of the Administration Committee, and 

 in all other standing Committees, two members shall constitute a quorum. In the 

 event that, owing to the absence or inabiHty of members, a quorum of the regularly 



