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[Annual Meeting. 
Report of the Secretary and Librarian, J. Walter Fewkes. 
Since the last report of the Secretary the Society has remod- 
elled its Constitution and By-laws in order to adapt them to 
certain new requirements necessary to perfect the plan of a Nat- 
ural History Garden and Aquaria. Among important changes 
which have been made are the consolidation of Associate and 
Corporate membership and the introduction of a new class known 
as Garden members. The election of all members by the Council 
is an important change which it is hoped may facilitate elections 
and lead to a great increase in the number of members. Every 
step which has been taken in the change from the old Constitu- 
tion and By-laws to the new By-laws has been adopted with no 
great opposition from the members of the Society or Council. 
Much of the work necessitated by this change has naturally fallen 
upon the Secretary whose steps have been guided by the deliber- 
ations of the various committees which have had the matter in 
charge, and by the instructions of the Council. 
A pamphlet containing the revised By-laws to which a list of 
members is appended has been printed and sent to every member 
of the Society. A revised list of members was very much needed 
as the preceding one had become somewhat antiquated and was 
almost out of print. A new set of Standing Rules for the Coun- 
cil has also been prepared and is now under consideration. The 
several changes necessitated by the adoption of the new By-laws 
have increased the routine work in the Secretary’s office to about 
double what it was in former years. We can nbw judge fairly 
well of the workings of the new By-laws, and it may be said with 
confidence that they give every evidence of being well adapted to 
the future needs of the Society in the new departure upon which 
it is about to enter. 
During the summer the Secretary spent three months at Zuni 
Pueblo, New Mexico, engaged in studies of the linguistic and 
religious ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians. Some of the 
results of his studies, and those of his assistant, Mr. J. G. Owens, 
were presented at meetings of the Society and of the National 
Academy which met in our rooms in November. Some of these 
studies are published in the Journal of American Ethnology and 
Archaeology of which the Secretary is editor. 
