SECRETARIES OF THE SECTIONS, CONTINUED. 37. CHARLES S. HILL, 1888. 42. NELLIE S. KEDZIE, 1893. 49. H. T. NEWCOMB, 1900. 51. F. R. RUTTER, 1902, in place of WALTER F. WILLCOX, resigned. 52. F. H. HITCHCOCK, 1903. 53-57. J. F. CROWELL, 1904-07. 58. J. PEASE NORTON, 1908. Section K.-Physiology and Experimental Medicine. 51. F. S. LEE, 1902. Section L.-Education. 50. R. A. PEARSON, 1901, in place 58. E. L. THORNDIKE, 1908, pro of CORA A. BENNESON, res'd. tem. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-four. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: SECTION 1. Joseph Henry of Washington, Benjamin Pierce of Cambridge, James D. Dana of New Haven, James Hall of Albany, Alexis Caswell of Providence, Stephen Alexander of Princeton Isaac Lea of Philadelphia, F. A. P. Barnard of New York, John S. 'Newberry of Cleveland, B. A. Gould of Cambridge, T. Sterry Hunt of Boston, Asa Gray of Cambridge, J. Lawrence Smith of Louisville, Joseph Lovering of Cambridge, and John LeConte of Philadelphia, their associates, the officers and members of the Association, known as the "American Association for the Advancement of Science," and their successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the American Association for the Advancement of Science," for the purpose of receiving, purchasing, holding, and conveying real and personal property, which it now is, or hereafter may be, possessed of, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations. SECTION 2. Said corporation may have and hold by purchase, grant, gift, or otherwise, real estate not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in value, and personal estate of the value of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SECTION 3. Any two of the corporators above named are hereby authorized to call the first meeting of the said corporation in the month of August next ensuing, by notice thereof “by mail," to each member of the said Association. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. IN SENATE, March 17, 1874. SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, A true copy, Attest: March 19, 1874. W. B. WASHBURN. DAVID PULSIFER, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealt'. OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE. MENT OF SCIENCE. Incorporated by Act of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, OBJECTS. ARTICLE I. The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness. MEMBERSHIP. ART. 2. The Association shall consist of members, fellows, patrons, corresponding members and honorary fellows. MEMBERS. ART. 3. Any person may become a member of the Association upon recommendation in writing by two members or fellows, and election by the Council. Any incorporated scientific society or institution, or any public or incorporated library, may be enrolled as a member of the Association by vote of the Council by payment of the initiation fee; such society, institution, or library may be represented by either the President, Curator, Director, or Librarian presenting proper credentials at any meeting of the Association for which the assessment has been paid. ASSOCIATES. Associates for any single meeting shall be admitted on the payment of three dollars, such associates to have all the privileges of the meeting, except reading papers and voting. Members of scientific societies whose meetings are contempɔraneous with, or immediately subsequent to, that of the Associa tion, and which are recognized by vote of the Council as "Affiliated Societies," may become associate members for that meeting on the payment of three dollars. They shall be entitled to all the privileges of membership except voting or appointment to office, but their names shall not appear in the list of members printed in the annual report. FOREIGN ASSOCIATES. Any member or fellow of any national scientific or educational institution, or of any society or academy of science, of any country not in America, who may be present at any meeting of the Association shall, on presenting the proper credentials, be enrolled without fee as a Foreign Associate, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of the meeting except voting on matters of business. FELLOWS. ART. 4. Fellows shall be elected by the Council from such of the members as are professionally engaged in science, or have, by their labors, aided in advancing science. The election of fellows shall be by ballot, and a majority vote of the members of the Council at a designated meeting of the Council. PATRONS. ART. 5. Any person paying to the Association the sum of one thousand dollars shall be classed as a patron, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of a member and to all its publications. HONORARY FELLOWS AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. ART. 6. Honorary fellows of the Association, not exceeding three for each Section, may be elected, the nominations to be made by the Council and approved by ballot in the respective sections before election by ballot in General Session. Honorary fellows shall be entitled to all the privileges of fellows, and shall be exempt from all fees and assessments, and entitled to all publications of the Association issued after the date of their election. Corresponding members shall consist of such scientists not residing in America as may be elected by the Council, and their number shall be limited to fifty. Corresponding members shall be entitled to all the privileges of members and to the annual volumes of Proceedings published subsequent to their election. SUSPENSIONS. ART. 7. The name of any member or fellow two years in arrears for annual dues shall be erased from the list of the Association, provided, that two notices of indebtedness, at an interval of at least three months, shall have been given; and no such person shall be restored until he has paid his arrearages or has been re-elected. The Council shall have power to exclude from the Association any member or fellow, on satisfactory evidence that said member or fellow is an improper person to be connected with the Association, or has in the estimation of the Council made improper use of his membership or fellowship. OFFICERS. ART. 8. No member or fellow shall take part in the organization of, or hold office in, more than one section at any one meeting. ART. 9. The officers of the Association shall be elected by ballot by the General Committee from the fellows, and shall consist of a President, a Vice-President from each section, a Permanent Secretary, a General Secretary, a Secretary of the Council, a Treasurer, and a Secretary of each Section; these, with the exception of the Permanent Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Secretaries of the Sections, shall be elected at each meeting for the following one, and, with the exception of the Treasurer and the Permanent Secretary, shall not be re-eligible for the next two meetings. The term of office of the Permanent Secretary, of the Treasurer, and of the Secretaries of the Sections, shall be five years. PRESIDENT. ART. 10. The President, or, in his absence, the senior VicePresident present, shall preside at all General Sessions of the Association and at all meetings of the Council. It shall also be the duty of the President to give an address at a General Session of the Association at the meeting following that over which he presided. |