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EIGHTH REPORT. 
« I )L aC< ?£ d ?' nce with his desire > we respectfully nominate for Resident Member 
of The Michigan Academy of Science. 
(Pull name) 
(Address) 
(Occupation) 
(Branch of Science interested in, work already done, and publications if any) 
(Signed by at least two Resident Members) 
The form when filled is to be transmitted to the Secretary. 
3 The Secretary shall bring all nominations before the Council at either the 
winter [Annual] or summer [Field] meeting of the Academy, and the Council 
shall signify its approval or disapproval of each. 
4. At the same or next stated meeting of the Academy, the Secretary shall 
present the list of candidates to the Academy for election. 
5. Corresponding. Members, Honorary Members, and Patrons shall be nomi¬ 
nated by the Council, and shall be elected in the same manner as Resident Mem¬ 
bers. 
CHAPTER IV: Election of Officers. 
Section 1. At the Annual Meeting the election of officers shall take place, and 
the officers elected shall enter on their duties at the end of the meeting. 
Section 2. The Council shall nominate a candidate for each office but each 
Section may recommend to the Council a candidate for its Vice President. Addi¬ 
tional nominations may be made by any member of the Academy. All elections 
shall be made by ballot. 
CHAPTER V: Financial Methods. 
1. No pecuniary obligation shall be contracted without express sanction of the 
Academy or the Council. But it is to be understood that all ordinary incidental 
and running expenses have the permanent sanction of the Academv without 
special action. 
2. The creditor of the Academy must present to the Treasurer a fully itemized 
bill, certified by the official ordering it, and approved by the President. The 
Treasurer shall then pay the amount out of any funds not otherwise appropri¬ 
ated, and the receipted bill shall be held as his voucher. 
3. At each annual meeting, the President shall call upon the Academy to 
choose two members, not members of the Council, to whom shall be referred the 
books of the Treasurer, duly posted and balanced to the first day of the Annual 
Meeting as specified in the By-Laws, Chapter II, Paragraph 4. These Auditors 
shall examine the accounts and vouchers of the Treasurer, and any member or 
members of the Council may be present during the examination. The report of 
the Auditors shall be rendered to the Academy before the adjournment of the 
meeting and the Academy shall take appropriate action. 
CHAPTER VI: Publications. 
Publications are in charge of the Council and under their control 
limited only as given by Article VII, of the Constitution. 
2. One copy of each publication shall be sent to each Resident Member Cor¬ 
responding Member, Honorary Member, and Patron, and each author shall receive 
fifty copies of his memoir. This provision shall not be understood as including 
publications m journals not controlled by the Academy. [By recent ruling 
authors receive no reprints free. If reprints are wanted the Academy will pay 
two-thirds if the author pays one-third the cost of printing not to exceed fifty 
copies. The author may have as many more than fifty provided he bears the 
whole expense of those above fifty. (Minutes of 1906 ) 
CHAPTER VII: The Research Fund. 
. r ^! e Research Fund shall consist of moneys paid by the general public for 
publications of the Academy, of donations made in aid of research, and of the 
sums paid m commutation of dues according to the By-Laws, Chapter I Para¬ 
graphs 2 and 4. 
2 Donors to this, fund not Members of the Academy, in the sum of twenty-five 
dollars, shall be entitled without charge, to the publications subsequently appear- 
