﻿STATUTES 



AND 



STANDING VOTES 



OP THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



{Adopted May 30th, 1854, and amended September 8th, 1857.) 



CHAPTER I. 



Op Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. 



1. The Academy consists of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. They are arranged 

 in three classes, according to the Arts and Sciences in which they are severally proficient, viz. : 

 Class I. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Class II. The Natural and Physiological 

 Sciences ; Class III. The Moral and Political Sciences. Each Class is divided into four Sec- 

 tions, viz. : Class I. Section 1. Mathematics ; Section 2. Practical Astronomy and Geodesy ; 

 Section 3. Physics and Chemistry ; Section 4. Teclmology and Engineering. Class II. Sec- 

 tion 1. Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe ; Section 2. Botany ; Section 3. Zoology 

 and Physiology ; Section 4. Medicine and Surgery. Class III. Section 1. Philosophy and Juris- 

 prudence ; Section 2. Philology and Archaeology ; Section 3. Political Economy and History ; 

 Section 4. Literature and the Fine Arts. 



2. Fellows resident in the State of Massachusetts can alone vote at the meetings of the 

 Academy.* They shall each pay to the Treasurer the sum of five dollars on admission, and an 

 aimual assessment of two dollars, with such additional sum, not exceeding three dollars, as the 

 Academy shall, by a standing vote, from time to time determine. 



* The number of Resident Fellows is limited by the Charter to 200. 



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