secretary to give due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society, and to attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate minutes of the proceedings of the Society, and record the same, when approved, in the Society's Journal. He shall give immediate notice to the several officers and committees of the Society, of all votes, orders, resolves, and proceedings of the Society affecting them or appertaining to their respective duties. He shall prepare a list of the members of the Society entitled to vote, to be handed to the tellers before the opening of the polls at each annual election. He shall officially sign and affix the corporate seal of the Society to all diplomas and other instruments or documents authorized by the Society or Council. He shall have charge of the corporate seal, charter, by-laws, records, and general archives of the Society, except so far as they may be expressly placed under the charge of others. He shall certify all acts and proceedings of the Society, and shall notify the Council of the death, resignation, or removal of any officer or member of the Society. He shall have charge of the rooms of the Society, and shall perform all such other and further duties as may from time to time be devolved upon him by the Society or the Council. He, together with the Council, shall have the charge and arrangement of the books, maps, and collections belonging to the Society. He shall cause to be kept in the rooms of the Society a registry of all donations to the library or collections of the Society, acknowledge their receipt by letter to the donors, and report the same in writing to the Society at its next stated meeting.

7. All documents relating to the Society and under the charge of the secretaries respectively, shall be placed in such depositories in the rooms of the Society as the Council may provide and designate for that purpose.

CHAPTER XIII.

TREASURER.

The Treasurer shall have charge of and safely keep all contracts, certificates of stock, securities, and muniments of title belonging to the Society. He shall collect the dues and keep the funds of the Society, and disburse the same under the direction of the Council; and so often as the said funds in the hands of the treasurer shall amount to one hundred dollars, he shall deposit the same, in the

name of the Society, in some incorporated bank in the city of New York, to be designated for that purpose by the Council; and the said funds, thus deposited, shall be drawn out of the said bank on the check of the treasurer, countersigned by the chairman of the Council, and only for the legitimate and authorized purposes of the Society. The treasurer shall, previous to the annual meeting of the Society, prepare and submit to the Council for audit, a detailed account of his receipts and disbursements for account of the Society during the past year; and which annual account, duly audited, he shall present, with his general report, to the Society at its annual meeting.

CHAPTER XIV.

COUNCIL.

1. The Council shall have the management and control of the affairs, property, and funds of the Society, and shall designate an incorporated bank in the city of New York, where the said funds. shall, from time to time as they accrue, be deposited by the

treasurer.

2. It may frame its own by-laws, not inconsistent with the charter or by-laws of the Society.

3. It shall appoint the necessary agents, clerks, and servants of the Society, with such powers and duties, privileges and compensation as it may from time to time determine; and may at pleasure revoke such appointments, and make others in their stead.

4. It shall have power to fill, for the unexpired term, any vacancy that may occur in any of the offices of the Society.

5. It shall have power, at its discretion, to declare vacant the seat of any member of its own body (except the president and vicepresidents) who shall have been absent from its meetings for three successive months; and also by a vote of a majority of the whole Council to remove from its own body any member thereof for cause; but in such case it shall be the duty of the Council to report every such vacancy or removal to the Society, at its next stated meeting thereafter, when such cases shall be subject to review by the Society.

6. It shall not, without an approving vote of the Society at a stated meeting thereof, make any contract whereby a liability in amount above one thousand dollars may be incurred by the Society⚫ nor

without such vote make any sale or disposition of the property of the Society exceeding that sum in value.

7. The Council may, in its discretion, remit the initiation fee or annual dues of any member of the Society.

8. No member of the Council shall receive any salary or pecuniary compensation for his services.

9. The Council shall hold stated meetings for the transaction of business at least once in every month, except the months of July, August, and September.

10. At all meetings of the Council, five members present shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

CHAPTER XV.

GENERAL PROVISION AS TO DEBT.

No debt on account of the Society, beyond the funds in the treasury for its payment, shall for any purpose, at any time, be incurred; and if at any time it shall appear that there are resting upon the Society pecuniary obligations beyond the funds in the treasury for their liquidation, no appropriation of funds from the treasury whatever, except for the necessary current expenses of the Society, shall be made, until the said pecuniary obligation shall be fully discharged, or the funds necessary for their extinction shall have been set apart for that purpose.

CHAPTER XVI.

ALTERATION OF THE BY-LAWS.

No alteration in the by-laws of the Society shall be made unless openly proposed at a stated meeting of the Society, entered on the minutes, with the name of the member proposing the same, and adopted by the Society at a subsequent meeting, by a vote of two thirds of the members present.

CHAPTER XVII.

ADOPTION OF THE BY-LAWS.

The foregoing are hereby adopted and declared to be the by-laws of the Society; and all by-laws of the Society heretofore adopted are hereby rescinded and declared to be null and void.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

ABBE, Prof. Cleveland, Washington.
AMMEN, Rear-Admiral Daniel, U.S.N.,
Washington.

BARTHOLOMEW, John, Edinburgh.
BREWER, Prof. Wm. H., New Haven.
BROWNLEE, HARRISON J., C. E., Mani-
toba.

BALLANTINE, Henry, Bombay.
BONAPARTE, Prince Roland, Paris.
CHAIX, Prof. Paul, Geneva, Switzer-
land.

CHAIX, Prof. Emile, Geneva, Switzer-
land.

DAVIDSON, Prof. Geo., U. S. Coast

and Geodetic Survey, San Francisco.
GARDNER, Prof. James T., Albany.
GILLIODTS VAN SEVEREN, L., LL.D.,
Bruges.

GILMAN, Daniel C., LL.D., President
Johns Hopkins University, Balti-

more.

LESSEPS, Ferdinand de, Paris.

LONG, Col. C. Chaillé.

LUCE, Admiral S. B., U.S.N.

LUMHOLTZ, Carl, M. A., Christiania,

Norway.

MALTE-BRUN, V. A., Paris.

MAUNOIR, Charles, Paris.

MAURY, Louis Ferdinand Alfred, Paris.
MCCARTEE, D. Bethune, M.D., New
York.

NEGRI, Cristoforo, Turin.

NEY, Count Napoléon, Paris.

PACKARD, Prof. A. S., Providence, R. I ̧
PERALTA, Manuel M. de, Liege.

PRINCE, Hon. L. Bradford, Santa Fé,
N. M.

PUMPELLY, Prof. Raphael.

RAE, John, M.D., London.

RAIMONDI, Antonio, Lima, Peru.

ROMERO, Matias, Envoy of Mexico at
Washington.

SCHUYLER, Hon. Eugene.

STANLEY, Henry M.

TACHÉ, E. E., Asst. Commisssioner of
Crown Lands, Quebec.

VINCENT, Frank, Jr.

VIVIEN DE SAINT-MARTIN, Versailles.
WALKER, Gen.

Boston.

Francis A., LL.D.,

WRIGHT, Gen. Horatio G., U.S.A.,

Washington.

WYSE, Lt.-Com. Lucien N. B., Paris.
WHITEHOUSE, F. Cope.

FELLOWS.

CORRECTED TO DECEMBER 31. 1889.