CONSTITUTION 
OF 
THE MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE * 
ARTICLE I. 
This Society shall be known as “The Michigan Academy of Science.” 
ARTICLE II : Objects. 
The objects of this Academy shall be scientific research and the diffusion 
of knowledge concerning the various depart ments of science. 
ARTICLE III: Membership. 
The Academy shall be composed of Resident Members, Corresponding 
Members, Honorary Members, Patrons and Affiliated Societies. 
1. Resident Members shall be persons who are interested in scientific work 
and resident in the State of Michigan. 
2. Corresponding Members shall be persons interested in science, and not 
resident in the State of Michigan. 
3. Honorary Members shall be persons distinguished for their attainments 
in science, and not resident in the State of Michigan, and shall not exceed 
twenty-five in number. 
4. Patrons shall be persons who have bestowed important favors upon the 
Academy, as defined in Chapter I, Paragraph 4 of the By-Laws. 
5. Resident Members alone shall be entitled to vote and hold office in the 
Academy. 
6. An affiliated society shall be a society accepted by the Council of the 
Academy, subject to ratification by the Academy at its next regular meeting 
as having as a principal object the promotion of scientific research in some 
line or lines, or the diffusion of scientific results in Michigan. Such a Society 
shall qualify as a member exactly as an individual member and shall ex- 
orcise its rights of membership through a delegate duly certified by the sec- 
retary of said society. Said delegate shall have all the rights of any resident 
member, except that the publications of the Academy shall be sent to the 
affiliated society as such as long as the dues of said society are paid and the 
secretary of the Academy not notified of the selection of a successor, and in 
case such society contains not less than eight resident members of the Academy 
such delegate shall ex officio be a member of the Council of the Academy, as 
*The history of the Academy will be found in full in the First. Annual Report. 
