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REPORT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
shall be divided by the Council into sections" (heretofore called standing com- 
mittees) "representing the principal branches of scientific research;" and that 
"each section shall elect its own chairman" (heretofore appointed by the 
President), "who shall serve for three years." Another amendment pro- 
vides that the annual meeting shall begin on the third Monday (instead of 
the third Tuesday) in April. 
An amended code of rules was presented by the Committee on the Consti- 
tution and Rules; and this was adopted by the Academy on April 21, 1915. 
Minor and formal changes are thereby made in many of the former rules of 
the Academy. The new rules and those which have been substantially modi- 
fied are as follows: 
III. 5. A standing committee of three members called the Program Committee, a local 
conimittee of five members appointed for each meeting, and the Home Secretary, shall 
together constitute the Committee of Arrangements, of which the Home Secretary shall 
be chairman. 
The term of service of the Program Committee shall be three years, one member re- 
tiring annually, the chairman to be designated by the President, 
It shall be the duty of the Program Committee to prepare the scientific program for 
the Annual Meeting and for this purpose it shall be empowered to solicit papers from 
members or others. It shall also be empowered to ascertain the length of time required 
for reading papers to be presented at the scientific sessions of the Academy, and, when it 
appears advisable, to limit the time to be occupied in their presentation or discussion. 
The local committee shall meet not less than two months previous to each meeting. 
It shall prepare the detailed program of each day, and in general shall have charge of all 
business and scientific arrangements for the meeting for which it is appointed except those 
specifically assigned to the Program Committee in the case of the Annual Meeting. 
IV. 1. Each section of the Academy shall elect a chairman to serve for a term of three 
years. If the chairmanship of a section becomes vacant in an interval between stated 
meetings of the Academy the President shall appoint a chairman to serve until the next 
stated meeting, at which time the section shall elect a chairman for a term of three years. 
IV. 2. The chairman of each section of the Academy shall submit to the members of 
his section, not later than November 1 of each year, a ballot containing the names of all 
those persons who received not less than two votes in the nominating ballot of the pre- 
ceding year and of any other persons who were newly proposed for consideration at that 
time. Each member of the section shall be expected to return this ballot to the chairman 
within two weeks with his signature and with crosses placed against the names of those 
persons whom he is prepared to endorse for nomination. Each member may also write 
upon the ballot in a place provided for the purpose any new names which he desires to 
have included in the ballot to be submitted to the section in the following year. The vote 
resulting from this ballot shall be regarded as informal. 
The chairman shall then submit to the members of his section a new ballot showing the 
results of the informal vote; and each member shall be expected to return this ballot to 
the chairman with his signature and with crosses placed against the names of those whom 
he will endorse for nomination. 
The chairman shall then certify to the Home Secretary, prior to January 1, the names 
of those persons who have been voted for on this second ballot by a majority of the mem- 
bers of the section, and shall furnish him a list of the pubhcations of these nominees, as 
required by the Constitution. 
IV. 4. Preference ballots for election of members shall be sealed in a blank envelope 
which shall be inclosed in another bearing the name of the sender and which shall be ad- 
