1426 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
Article III.— Membership. 
The Academy shall include four classes of members, viz.: life mem¬ 
bers, honorary members, corresponding members, and active members, 
to be elected by ballot. 
obtained by the payment of one hundred dollars and election by the 
Academy. Life members shall be allowed to vote and to hold office. 
2. Honorary members shall be elected by the Academy and shall be 
men who have rendered conspicuous services to science, arts, or letters. 
3. Corresponding members shall be elected from those who have been 
active members of the Academy, but have removed from the state. By 
special vote of the Academy men of attainments in science or letters 
may be elected corresponding members. They shall have no vote in 
the meetings of the Academy. 
4. Active members shall be elected by the Academy or the council 
and shall enter upon membership on the payment of an initiation fee 
of two dollars which shall include the first annual assessment of one 
dollar. The annual assessment shall be omitted for the president, 
secretary, treasurer, and librarian during their term of office. 
Article IV.— Officers. 
The officers of the Academy shall be a president, a vice-president for 
each of the three departments, sciences, arts, and letters, a secretary, a 
librarian, a treasurer, and a custodian. These officers shall be chosen 
by ballot, on recommendation of the committee on nomination of offi¬ 
cers, by the Academy at an annual meeting and shall hold office for 
three years. Their duties shall be those usually performed by officers 
thus named in scientific societies. It shall be one of the duties of the 
president to prepare an address which shall be delivered before the 
Academy at the annual meeting at which his term of office expires. 
Article V.— Council. 
The council of the Academy shall be entrusted with the management 
of its affairs during the intervals between regular meetings, and shall 
consist of the president, the three vice-presidents, the secretary, the 
treasurer, the librarian,' and the past presidents who retain their resi¬ 
dence in Wisconsin. Three members of the council shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business, provided the secretary and one 
of the presiding officers be included in the number. 
Article VI.— Committees. 
The standing committees of the Academy shall be a committee on 
publication, a library committee, and a committee on the nomination 
of members. These committees shall be elected at the annual meeting 
of the Academy in the same manner as the other officers of the Acad¬ 
emy, and shall hold office for the same term. 
