REGULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON

SCIENCE AND THE ARTS

ARTICLE I.-Investigations

SECTION 1. The Committee shall investigate, by sub-committee or otherwise, any subject referred to it by the Institute; and upon a majority vote of the members present at any stated meeting, it may investigate any subject presented on motion of a member or by application as herein provided.

SEC. 2. Secret processes or compounds will not be considered by the Committee; nor will the treatment of materials by any substance be considered, unless the composition used and the method of treatment are fully disclosed.

SEC. 3. A request or a recommendation for the investigation of a subject shall be made in writing addressed to the Secretary who will submit it with full detailed information to the Sub-committee on New Subjects and Preliminary Examination. If this Sub-committee recommends it as a suitable subject for investigation to the Committee on Science and the Arts, and if this recommendation is adopted by the General Committee, the Secretary shall notify the applicant accordingly and furnish an application blank substantially like the form appended.

SEC. 4. It shall not be competent for any member of the Committee on Science and the Arts to be an applicant for investigation unless the subject for investigation be referred to the Committee by a vote of the Institute.

ARTICLE II.—Meetings of the Committee

SECTION I. The Committee shall hold stated meetings at 8 o'clock P.M. on the first Wednesday of each month, excepting July, August and September. SEC. 2. Special meetings may be called by the Chairman, and shall be called by him upon the written request of five members of the Committee.

SEC. 3. At all meetings of the Committee nine members shall constitute a quorum for transacting general business, but for final action upon a report conferring or recommending an award or for amending the rules of the Committee, a quorum shall consist of not less than fifteen members.

SEC. 4. At its stated meetings the Committee shall proceed in the following

1. Calling the roll.

Order of Business:

2. Reading of the minutes of preceding meeting.

3. Approval of bills.

4. Reading of correspondence.

5. Report of sub-committee on new subjects and preliminary examination.

6. Reports of standing and special sub-committees.

7. Consideration of reports for final action.

8. Reports of sub-committees on investigation, first reading.

9. Deferred business.

10. New business.

II. Adjournment.

ARTICLE III.-Chairman

SECTION I. A Special Committee for nominating a Chairman for the ensuing year, consisting of three recent past Chairmen, shall be appointed at the January Meeting of the Committee, this special committee to report its nomination of a candidate at the February meeting. At this meeting, additional nominations may be made by any member of the Committee on Science and the Arts. The election shall be by ballot at the same meeting, when the person receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. He shall immediately assume office and shall perform his duties until his successor is installed. He shall not be eligible for election in two successive terms.

SEC. 2. The Chairman shall appoint the members of all sub-committees unless otherwise ordered, and may serve ex officio on all sub-committees except those charged with investigations.

SEC. 3. The election of a member as Chairman shall be held to vacate his membership of any and all sub-committees of investigation on which he may be serving, except if he has the report of such Committee prepared or in preparation, in which case he shall complete his work, but when such report is presented for consideration, he shall call on another member to preside while the subject is under discussion.

SEC. 4. The Chairman shall submit to the stated meetings of the Board of Managers in October, December, February, April and June of each year, a report of the number of investigations pending before the Committee, the number disposed of since the last report, with the action taken or award made in each case, and the number and nature of new investigations undertaken since the last report, and such other information as to the work of the Committee as the Board of Managers may require. He shall also report to the stated meetings of the Institute such recent action of the Committee as he may deem of interest.

ARTICLE IV.-Standing Sub-committees

SECTION I. There shall be appointed each February by the Chairman a sub-committee of not less than five members of the Committee, to be styled the "Sub-committee on New Subjects and Preliminary Examination." The duties of this sub-committee shall be to keep a general observation of progress made in science and the arts and to report to the Committee subjects adjudged worthy of investigation; to coöperate with the Secretary in keeping the work of the Committee properly before the public, and to recommend at each regular meeting the acceptance or otherwise of all applications for investigation. This sub-committee shall meet at least once prior to each regular meeting of the Committee.

SEC. 2. There shall be appointed each February by the Chairman, from the membership, a sub-committee styled the "Sub-committee on Literature," consisting of six members. It shall be the duty of this sub-committee to examine carefully all papers that are published in the Institute's JOURNAL during

the current calendar year, and to report to the Committee not later than January of the following year, which, if any, of those papers deserve the award of the Louis Edward Levy Medal.

SEC. 3. There shall be appointed by the Chairman from the membership each February, a sub-committee styled the Sub-committee on Awarding the Franklin Medal," the duty of which shall be to make recommendations of the award of this medal under the provisions of the deed of gift.

ARTICLE V.-Sub-committees on Investigation of Applications

SECTION 1. Upon the acceptance of an application for investigation, a sub-committee shall be appointed by the Chairman to conduct the investigation. SEC. 2. Sub-committees shall be appointed from the membership of the Committee, but they may include a minority of other persons whose expert services are desired in the examination.

SEC. 3. When the personnel of a sub-committee on investigation is finally determined, a notice shall be sent to all members thereof giving the names of the members of the sub-committee.

SEC. 4. No person who is interested in the issue shall be a member of the sub-committee on investigation.

SEC. 5. An applicant for investigation may withdraw his application at any time before final action by the Committee; which withdrawal shall be reported to the Committee.

SEC. 6. When the Secretary has obtained the necessary information from the applicant, he shall notify the sub-committee, who shall then proceed with the investigation.

SEC. 7. Correspondence between the sub-committee and the applicant must be carried on through the office of the Secretary, in order that the official records shall be complete.

SEC. 8. Sub-committees shall whenever possible make direct examination and tests of the subject under investigation, and shall not accept tests, data or information furnished by others without first satisfying themselves as to the accuracy thereof. They shall in no case recommend an award solely on the basis of tests, data or information furnished by parties in any way interested in the subject of the award. When data submitted by persons not members of the sub-committee are included in the latter's report, it shall be so stated. SEC. 9. Sub-committees must ascertain that articles, processes, products, etc., examined are genuine samples of the subject under investigation.

SEC. 10. Each sub-committee on investigation shall report its progress to the Committee at intervals of not more than two consecutive stated meetings; and any sub-committee failing so to report for four consecutive stated meetings may be discharged from further consideration of the subject at the discretion of the Chairman, who shall then appoint a new sub-committee to continue the investigation.

SEC. II. Any member of a sub-committee on investigation failing to discharge his duties may be replaced by another member at the discretion of the Chairman.

SEC. 12.

Sub-committees may request applicants to furnish drawings, diagrams or other exhibits for the purpose of investigations and for the records of the Committee.

SEC. 13. When it is found that the subject under investigation has become involved in litigation, the sub-committee shall defer further action until the litigation is terminated, or the Committee decides that the sub-committee may proceed.

ARTICLE VI. Sub-committee Meetings

SECTION I. A quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of a sub-committee, properly called, shall consist of the one or more members present.

SEC. 2. No applicant or other person interested in the issue of an investigation shall be present at a meeting of a sub-committee or of the Committee except at the invitation of the sub-committee charged with the investigation.

ARTICLE VII.-Sub-committees' Reports

SECTION I. Reports of progress and final reports of sub-committees shall be made to the Committee in writing. Final reports shall begin and end substantially as indicated in Form B hereto appended.

SEC. 2.

When a sub-committee on investigation deems the subject upon which it reports worthy of an award of the Elliott Cresson Medal, the George R. Henderson Medal, the Walton Clark Medal, the Howard N. Potts Medal, the John Price Wetherill Medal, the Edward Longstreth Medal or the Certificate of Merit, it shall include in its report a recommendation to that effect; and such recommendations may be adopted by a majority vote of the Committee, but shall not be changed except by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

SEC. 3. A report of a sub-committee on investigation, before its acceptance by the Committee, may be edited by the Secretary of the Institute in conjunction with the Chairman of the sub-committee, but without changing its meaning or effect.

SEC. 4. A report of a sub-committee on investigation, before its acceptance by the Committee, shall be signed by a majority of the members of the sub-committee charged with the investigation.

SEC. 5. Any member or members of a sub-committee may file a minority report at least three days prior to the meeting at which the majority report is to be presented.

SEC. 6. No member of a sub-committee shall be permitted to sign a report without having personally examined the subject under investigation, or taken part in its discussion at a meeting of the sub-committee.

SEC. 7. Reports of sub-committees on investigation shall be accompanied by such drawings, diagrams or other exhibits as will serve to elucidate the subject.

SEC. 8. All exhibits pertaining to reports shall be numbered, marked for identification, and signed by the Secretary of the Institute in substantially the following form, and the seal of the Institute shall be impressed thereon:

Exhibit No. the Arts No.

pertaining to report of the Committee on Science and

Secretary.

SEC. 9. After the report of a sub-committee on investigation has passed its first reading before the Committee, a copy of its descriptive portion may be furnished the applicant, who may make an explanation or objections, in writing, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee; but such writing must be received not later than the next stated meeting of the Committee.

SEC. 10. The report of a sub-committee on investigation may be discussed and amended at the meeting of the Committee at which it is first presented, but shall be laid over for a second reading and final action until the next stated meeting; except where no recommendation of an award is made in the report, when it may, by a majority vote, be finally disposed of at the time of the first reading.

SEC. 11. Final action on a report of a sub-committee on investigation recommending an award shall not be taken unless at least one member of the sub-committee who signed the report is present.

ARTICLE VIII.-Reconsideration

SECTION 1. Upon the adoption of a report of a sub-committee, a motion for reconsideration must be made within the next three months. If such a motion is made and accepted, a vote of two-thirds of a quorum for final action shall be required to change the report as previously adopted.

SEC. 2. A second investigation of a subject shall not be ordered except on a vote of two-thirds of the members present at a stated meeting.

ARTICLE IX.-Advertisement of Recommendations

SECTION 1. Upon the adoption, by the Committee on Science and the Arts, of a report of a sub-committee on investigation setting forth that a discovery, invention, improvement or manufacture is worthy of an award of the Elliott Cresson Medal, the Howard N. Potts Medal, the George R. Henderson Medal or the John Price Wetherill Medal, publication shall be made in three successive issues of the JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, stating that at the expiration of three months from the date of the first publication, the person making such discovery, invention, improvement or manufacture shall be entitled to receive the award of the said medal, unless within the time satisfactory evidence shall have been submitted to the Committee on Science and the Arts of the want of originality or merit, in the supposed discovery, invention, improvement or manufacture.

SEC. 2. The adoption by the Committee on Science and the Arts of a report of a sub-committee recommending an award of the Franklin Medal, the Louis Edward Levy Medal, the Walton Clark Medal, the Edward Longstreth Medal or the Certificate of Merit, shall be conclusive without advertisement.

ARTICLE X.-Protests

SECTION 1. Protests against recommendations advertised by publication in the JOURNAL must be received within three months of the date of first publication. Such protests shall be presented to the Committee at its next