ARTICLEI. NAME.
ARTICLEI. NAME.
The name of this Society is the "NATIONALGEOGRAPHICSOCIETY."
ARTICLEII. OBJECT.
ARTICLEII. OBJECT.
The object of this Society is the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge.
ARTICLEIII. MEMBERSHIP.
ARTICLEIII. MEMBERSHIP.
The members of this Society shall be persons who are interested in geographic science. There may be three classes of members, active, corresponding, and honorary.
Active members only shall be members of the corporation; shall be entitled to vote and may hold office.
Persons residing at a distance from the District of Columbia may become corresponding members of the Society. They may attend its meetings, take part in its proceedings, and contribute to its publications.
Persons who have attained eminence by the promotion of geographic science may become honorary members.
Corresponding members may be transferred to active membership, and, conversely, active members may be transferred to corresponding membership by the Board of Managers.
The election of members shall be entrusted to the Board of Managers. Nominations for membership shall be signed by three active members of the Society; shall state the qualifications of the candidate; and shall be presented to the Recording Secretary. No nomination shall receive action by the Board of Managers until it has been before it at least two weeks, and no candidate shall be elected unless he receive at least nine affirmative votes.
ARTICLEIV. OFFICERS.
ARTICLEIV. OFFICERS.
The Officers of the Society shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Recording Secretary, and a Corresponding Secretary.
The above mentioned officers, together with eight other members of the Society, known as Managers, shall constitute a Board of Managers. Officers and Managers shall be elected annually, by ballot, a majority of the votes cast being necessary to an election; they shall hold office until their successors are elected; and shall have power to fill vacancies occurring during the year.
The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents, shall preside at the meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers; he shall, together with the Recording Secretary, sign all written contracts and obligations of the Society, and attest its corporate seal; he shall deliver an annual address to the Society.
Each Vice-President shall represent in the Society and in the Board of Managers a department of geographic science, as follows:
Geography of the Land.Geography of the Sea.Geography of the Air.Geography of Life.Geographic Art.
The Vice-Presidents shall foster their respective departments within the Society; they shall present annually to the Society summaries of the work done throughout the world in their several departments.
They shall be elected to their respective departments by the Society.
The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Society, shall collect the dues, and shall disburse under the direction of the Board of Managers; he shall make an annual report; and his accounts shall be audited annually by a committee of the Society and at such other times as the Board of Managers may direct.
The Secretaries shall record the proceedings of the Society and of the Board of Managers; shall conduct the correspondence of the Society; and shall make an annual report.
The Board of Managers shall transact all the business of the Society, except such as may be presented at the annual meeting. It shall formulate rules for the conduct of its business. Nine members of the Board of Managers shall constitute a quorum.
ARTICLEV. DUES.
ARTICLEV. DUES.
The annual dues of active members shall be five dollars, and of corresponding members two dollars, payable during the month of January, or, in the case of new members, within thirty days after election.
The dues of members elected in November and December shall be credited to the succeeding year.
Annual dues may be commuted and life membership acquired by the payment of fifty dollars.
No member in arrears shall vote at the annual meeting, and the names of members two years in arrears shall be dropped from the roll of membership.
ARTICLEVI. MEETINGS.
ARTICLEVI. MEETINGS.
Regular meetings of the Society shall be held on alternate Fridays, from November until May, and excepting the annual meeting they shall be devoted to communications. The Board of Managers shall, however, have power to postpone or omit meetings, when deemed desirable. Special meetings may be called by the President.
The annual meeting for the election of officers shall be the last regular meeting in December.
The meeting preceding the annual meeting shall be devoted to the President's annual address.
The reports of the retiring Vice-Presidents shall be presented in January.
A quorum for the transaction of business shall consist of twenty-five active members.
ARTICLEVII. AMENDMENTS.
ARTICLEVII. AMENDMENTS.
These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at a regular meeting, provided that notice of the proposed amendment has been given in writing at a regular meeting at least four weeks previously.
1.—The President, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of the Society shall hold like offices in the Board of Managers.
2.—The President shall have power to call special meetings of the Board of Managers and to appoint special committees. He shall, also, at the beginning of each year appoint a Standing Committee, of three persons, on Communications; a Standing Committee, of three persons, on Publications; and three delegates, of which he shall be chairman, to serve on the Joint Commission.
3.—The Treasurer shall receive all dues and other income of the Society; shall keep its accounts; and shall disburse its funds under the direction of the Board of Managers.
4.—One of the Secretaries shall act as the Secretary of the Board and the other as Secretary of the Society; and both Secretaries shall be excused from serving on committees.
5.—The Committee on Communications shall receive and consider all communications, and propositions relating to communications, designed for delivery before the Society, and shall prepare programmes for all meetings.
6.—The Committee on Publications shall have charge of the publications of the Society.
7.—At the beginning of each year the Secretary shall submit an estimate of the revenues of the Society for the current year, whereupon, the Board shall make itemized appropriations for the different classes of regular expenditures. All expenditures not included in these regular allotments must be specially authorized by the Board. Charges against the regular allotments will be paid by the Treasurer upon the certification of the officer or chairman of the committee incurring the expenditures.
8.—The names of proposed members, recommended in conformity with Article III of the By-Laws, may be presented at any meeting of the Board of Managers and shall lie over at least two weeks before final action.
9.—The order of business at the regular meetings of the Board of Managers shall be as follows:
a. Reading of minutes.
b. Communications from the President, Secretaries or Treasurer and action thereon.
c. Reports of committees and action thereon.
d. Election of members.
e. Nominations for membership.
f. Miscellaneous business.
10.—The order of business for each regular meeting of the Society shall be as follows:
a. Reading of the minutes of the last meeting.
b. Notice of the election of new members and other notices and correspondence of the Society.
c. The presentation of papers and their discussion.
11.—The order of business for the annual meeting shall be as follows:
a. The reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting.
b. The presentation of the annual reports of the Secretaries.
c. The presentation of the annual report of the Treasurer.
d. The selection of a committee to audit the accounts of the Treasurer.
e. The announcement of a posted list of the names of members who are entitled to vote for the election of officers.
f. The election of a President.
g. The election of five Vice-Presidents, in the order named in the By-Laws.
h. The election of a Treasurer.
i. The election of a Recording Secretary.
j. The election of a Corresponding Secretary.
k. The election of eight Managers.
l. Unfinished business.
m. The reading of the rough minutes of the meeting.
The election of officers shall be as follows:
In each case nominations shall be made by an informal ballot: the result of each informal ballot having been announced, the first formal ballot shall be taken. An informal ballot may be made formal by a majority vote. Each of the Vice-Presidents shall be elected to his position separately.
In the ballot for Managers, as many names may be written on the ballot as there are Managers to be elected, and those persons receiving a majority on each formal ballot shall be declared elected. If more than the number to be elected receive a majority, those receiving the greatest number of votes shall be declared chosen.
12.—It is not permitted to report the proceedings of the Society for publication, except by authority of the Board of Managers.
13.—These rules may be amended by a majority vote, notice having been given two weeks in advance.
Form of Publication.
Form of Publication.
SECTION1. The National Geographic Society will continue to publish a serial entitledThe National Geographic Magazine.
SEC. 2. This serial shall be published in covered parts or brochures, consecutively paged for each volume. The brochures shall be designated by volume numbers and limiting pages; and each shall bear a special title setting forth the contents and authorship, as well as the title of the serial and the seal and imprint of the Society, and, in addition, the precise date of publication.
SEC. 3. A brochure may consist of a single memoir or article, in which case twenty-five copies will be furnished to the author without charge, and the author may order or authorize the order of any additional number of copies; and the shorter papers, abstracts, reviews, notes and miscellaneous matter may be collected and issued as brochures uniform with those containing the memoirs.
SEC. 4. The brochures of the serial shall be arranged for gathering into volumes, each comprising the issue of a calendar year; and about the close of each year there shall be published in a brochure arranged to complete the volume a title-page, a list of contents, and an index for the corresponding volume, together with an abstract of the proceedings of the Society and lists of officers and members for the year, and a copy of the by-laws and rules governing the Society.
Matter of Publication.
Matter of Publication.
SEC. 5. The matter published in the National Geographic Magazine, may comprise: (1) original communications prepared by members or guests of the National Geographic Society presented at meetings by title or otherwise; (2) original communications or memoirs prepared for the Magazine either by members or non-members, whether presented before the Society or not; (3) translations or abstracts of important foreign publications relating to geography, reviews of geographic works, items of geographic intelligence, etc.; (4) abstracts of papers read and discussions made before the Society, prepared or revised by authors; (5) administrative records of the Society, including condensed minutes of meetings prepared by the secretaries; (6) lists of members, by-laws and rules, resolutions of permanent character, etc.; and (7) title pages, lists of contents and indexes for each volume.
SEC. 6. Matter designed for publication in the National Geographic Magazine may be transmitted to the Committee on Publications either direct or through the secretaries or other officers of the Society: soon as may be thereafter the Committee shall decide on the desirability and expediency of publication, or refer the matter to the Board of Managers for decision; if the matter is accepted it shall be published soon as practicable; if rejected it shall be returned to the author. Communications from non-members and translated memoirs shall be published only upon unanimous vote of the Committee on Publications or by specific authority from the Board of Managers. The Committee on Publications or the Board of Managers may refer any communication to special committees for examination.
SEC. 7. Matter offered for publication in the National Geographic Magazine becomes thereby the property of the National Geographic Society and shall not be published elsewhere prior to publication in the Magazine except by consent of the Society.
SEC. 8. Matter accepted for publication in the National Geographic Magazine shall be either printed and issued soon as possible as a memoir-brochure or reserved for the next brochure of miscellaneous contents (or magazine-brochure) at the option of the Committee on Publications. Proofs of letter-press and illustrations shall be submitted to authors or persons designated by authors whenever practicable; but printing shall not be delayed more that one week by reason of absence or incapacity of authors.
Manner of Publication.
Manner of Publication.
SEC. 9. The text of each brochure of the National Geographic Magazine shall begin under its proper title on an odd-numbered page bearing at its head the title of the serial, the volume, the limiting pages, and the date of publication; each such brochure shall be accompanied by the illustrations pertaining to it, the plates consecutively numbered for the volume; and each brochure may contain a synoptic list of contents prepared by the author and, at the option of the Committee on Publications, an alphabetic index, provided the same be prepared by the author. Each brochure shall be enclosed in a cover conforming nearly as may be to the present covers of the serial, bearing at the head of its title-page the title of the serial, the volume, the limiting pages, the date of publication, and, below, the seal and imprint of the Society; other cover pages may bear a list of the publications of the Society; but nothing else of bibliographic or other permanent value shall be printed on the covers unless the same be printed also in the body of the volume to which the brochure belongs.
SEC. 10. The author of each memoir shall receive twenty-five copies without charge and shall be authorized to order, through the Committee on Publications, any edition of exactly similar brochures in exactly similar covers to be printed as author's separates at cost of paper and press work; but no author's separates of the memoir-brochures shall be issued except in this regular form.
SEC. 11. At least two magazine-brochures maybe published during each year, the first about the close of the meeting season of the Society, and the second about the close of the calendar year.
SEC. 12. Authors of papers in the magazine-brochures shall have the privilege of ordering, through the Committee on Publications, at their own cost, any number of separate copies, provided these separates bear the original pagination and a printed reference to the serial and volume from which they are extracted.
SEC. 13. About the end of each year a volume-title-page, general lists of contents and illustrations of the volume, lists of officers and members of the Society, the by-laws and rules, an abstract of the proceedings for the year, and a general index to the volume shall be printed and issued as a separate brochure. All of this matter except the index shall be arranged for binding at the beginning of the volume under a distinct Roman pagination; but the index shall take the regular Arabic pagination at the end of the volume. The title-page shall bear the name of the Committee on Publications; and the obverse shall bear the imprimatur of the Board of Managers and the printer's card.
SEC. 14. The bottom of each signature and of each initial page shall bear a signature mark giving an abbreviated title of the serial, the volume and the year; and every page shall be numbered, the initial and sub-title pages at the bottom.
SEC. 15. The page-head titles shall be: on even-numbered pages, name of author and catch title of paper; on odd-numbered pages, catch title of contents of page.
SEC. 16. All brochures shall be trimmed at top, side and bottom.
SEC. 17. The typography, paper and general make up shall conform, except as herein otherwise specified, nearly as may be to the National Geographic Magazine as heretofore published.
SEC. 18. The date of publication of each brochure shall be that upon which the edition is delivered to the Committee on Publications.
SEC. 19. The brochures shall be distributed immediately by the Committee on Publications to members of the Society, subscribers, and exchanges from a list furnished by the Secretaries; and the undistributed copies of each edition shall be turned over to the Secretaries.
SEC. 20. The regular edition shall be seven hundred and fifty copies for the Society, and twenty-five copies for authors.
SEC. 21. The Committee on Publications shall keep a record of all matter published wholly or in part under the auspices of the Society whether the same be author's editions of the memoir-brochures, author's extracts from the magazine-brochures, or any other matter printed from type originally composed for the Magazine.
SEC. 22. The Magazine shall be mailed free to members of the Society not in arrears for dues more than six months, and also to exchanges, and for an annual price of three dollars to regular subscribers. The separate brochures may be sold, to the number of not more than ten to each individual, at an advance on cost of 25 per cent. to members and 75 per cent. to non-members of the Society; and either separate brochures or complete volumes may be sold to dealers at the usual discount for matter of the same class.
SEC. 23. The Committee on Publications may introduce at discretion advertisements of proper character, on pages provided for the purpose not taking the regular pagination of the Magazine, at the usual rates for such service.
President.GARDINER G. HUBBARD.
President.GARDINER G. HUBBARD.
Vice-Presidents.HERBERT G. OGDEN.EVERETT HAYDEN.A. W. GREELY.C. HART MERRIAM.HENRY GANNETT.
Vice-Presidents.HERBERT G. OGDEN.EVERETT HAYDEN.A. W. GREELY.C. HART MERRIAM.HENRY GANNETT.
Treasurer.CHARLES J. BELL.
Treasurer.CHARLES J. BELL.
Secretaries.MARCUS BAKER.C. A. KENASTON.
Secretaries.MARCUS BAKER.C. A. KENASTON.
Managers.ROGERS BIRNIE, JR.G. K. GILBERT.G. BROWN GOODE.WILLARD D. JOHNSON.W J MCGEE.T. C. MENDENHALL.W. B. POWELL.B. H. WARDER.
Managers.ROGERS BIRNIE, JR.G. K. GILBERT.G. BROWN GOODE.WILLARD D. JOHNSON.W J MCGEE.T. C. MENDENHALL.W. B. POWELL.B. H. WARDER.
a, original members.c, corresponding members.l, life members.* Deceased.In cases where no city is given in the address, Washington, D. C., is to be understood.
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. A. A. (Albert Ammerman), U. S. N.,
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Navy Department.
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. S. M. (Seth Mitchell), U. S. N.,
Coast and Geodetic Survey.
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, A. D. (Arthur D——)
Metropolitan Club.
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Fort Shaw, Mont.
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Geological Survey.
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, J. T. (Judah Throop),
Geological Survey.
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. J. A. (Joel Asaph),
American Museum Natural History, New York, N. Y.
A
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, E
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Wormley's Hotel.
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, S. A., J
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. (Stephen Arnold),
Geological Survey.
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. J. A. (John Abel),
17 Dupont Circle.
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, W. R. (William Russum),
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Geological Survey.
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S. C. (Susan Caroline),
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502 A Street SE.
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Geological Survey.
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Seattle, Wash.
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Smithsonian Institution.
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Geological Survey.
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Geological Survey.
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, A. C. (Alexander Campbell),
Geological Survey.
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. A. S. (Albert Smith), U. S. N.,
Navy Department.
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, E. C. (Edward Chester),
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Geological Survey.
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HARLES
A. (Charles Adams),
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P. O. Box 1198, Seattle, Wash.
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