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TROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OP 
Art. XIX. Papers from any Department designed for publi- 
cation in the Proceedings or in the Journal of the Academy, 
shall take the course provided in these By-Laws (Chapter X.), 
except that each Department may refer papers read before it 
to a special committee, which shall report to the Academy at 
the meeting for business next succeeding its appointment, which 
report shall be treated as if it emanated from a special com- 
mittee of the Academy. 
The papers of each Department shall be paged and entitled 
in such manner as to permit the Proceedings, as well as the 
Journal, of each Department, to be bound in separate volumes 
and appropriately labelled. 
Art. XX. On all points not provided for in this Chapter, 
each Department shall be governed by the Charter, By-Laws and 
usages of the Academy. 
Art. XXI. The Department A. shall be denominated the 
Biological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. 
Chapter XI. Art. viii. shall be amended so as to insert 
2. Proceedings and Reports from Departments in their 
order of precedence, 
next after the line 
1. Minutes of the last meeting for business shall be read." 
And also so as to change the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to 
read 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 
Dr. Hammond offered the following : 
Resolved, That those members of the Academy who have signed the 
memorial offered January 26th, since the record, be added to those 
already recorded as founders of the Biological Department ; which was 
adopted. 
Dr. LeConte moved that a committee be appointed for the purpose 
of drafting a series of By-laws for the government of the Committee on 
Proceedings, which was appointed — to consist of Drs. LeConte, Busch- 
enberger and Wilson. 
Mr. Yaux oflfered the following: 
Resolved, That the Library Committee be authorized to dispose of the 
French Hiatorical Documents, at such price as they deem proper, it 
opportunity offer; which was adopted. 
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