CHAPTER IV.

Of the Foreign Members.

SECT. I. No Person shall be elected a Foreign Member of the Society until the Number remaining of those elected on or before the Twenty-fourth Day of May 1802 shall be less than Fifty, to which Number the Foreign Members shall, from thenceforward, be limited; and no Person shall be proposed as a Foreign Member until a Vacancy shall have been actually declared to the Society.

II. Each Certificate proposing a Candidate for Election as a Foreign Member shall be signed by Six or more Fellows, and shall specify his Christian Name, Surname, Titles, Works, Quality or Profession, and his Place of Residence. Such Certificate shall be presented at one of the General Meetings of the Society, on or before the Seventh Day of February in every Year; and, after being read, shall be fixed up in the public Meeting-Room, where it shall continue until the Election, which shall take place at the Mecting immediately preceding the Anniversary. Each Certificate is also to be read at every Meeting of the Society which may intervene between the Time of its being presented and the Day of Election.

III. At the General Meeting immediately preceding the Anniversary, the President, or Vice-President in the Chair, shall declare the Number of Vacancies, and the Number of Candidates proposed as aforesaid, who shall then be severally balloted for, in alphabetical Order; and those Candidates who shall have the greatest Number of Votes shall be declared as elected: Provided, however, that no Person shall be considered as duly elected, unless he have in his Favour Two-thirds of the Number voting.

IV. In

IV. In case of an Equality of Votes in Favour of Two or more Candidates, whose Number shall exceed the Number of Vacancies to be filled up from them, the Excess of such Number shall be excluded by Lots, to be drawn by the President, or Vice-President in the Chair; and the Person or Persons whose Names shall remain undrawn shall be declared to be duly elected.

V. There shall be transmitted to each Foreign Member, as soon as may be after his Election, a Diploma in the Latin Language, under the Common Seal of the Society, signed by the President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, and countersigned by the Secretary.

VI. No British Subject, nor any Person usually residing in any of the British Dominions, unless he be an Ambassador from a Foreign Court, shall be elected a Foreign Member of the Society.

CHAPTER V.

Of the Associates.

SECT. I. The Number of Associates shall be indefinite, but shall include only such Persons as usually reside in the British Dominions.

II. Every Candidate for Election as an Associate shall be proposed, recommended, and balloted for in like Manner, in all Respects, as is directed in the Second, Third, and Fourth Sections of Chapter I. respecting the Election of Fellows.

III. The Secretary shall, immediately after the Election of any Person as an Associate, announce the same, by Letter, to the Person who may be so elected, and shall transmit to him a printed Copy of the Statutes and Bye-Laws of the Society, with the List of the Members.

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CHAPTER VI.

Of the Death or Withdrawing of Members.

SECT. I. Upon the Death or the voluntary Withdrawing of any Fellow, Honorary Member, Foreign Member, or Associate, the Secretary shall note such Death or Withdrawing in the printed List of that Year; and the Death or Withdrawing of any Member shall be entered upon the Minutes of the Society at the then next Anniversary Meeting.

II. No Fellow shall be understood to have withdrawn himself from the Society, until he shall have signified such his Intention by Letter, under his Hand, addressed to the President; and if such Letter be not left at the Apartments of the Society, between the Twenty-fourth Day of May in any Year and the First Day of February next following, the Contribution of such Fellow shall be understood to be continued for the Whole of the Year in which he shall have so withdrawn himself.

CHAPTER VII.

Of the Causes and Form of Ejection.

SECT. I. If any Member of the Society should, contemptuously, or contumaciously, disobey the Statutes or Orders of the Society or Council; or should, by speaking, writing, or printing, publickly defame the Society; or advisedly, maliciously, or dishonestly, do any Thing to the Damage, Detriment, or Dishonour thereof, he shall be ejected from the Society.

II. When

II. Whensoever there shall be Cause for the Ejection of any Member from the Society, the President shall, at some Meeting thereof, propose the Ejection of such Member; and at the next General Meeting the Question shall be put to the Ballot, and if Two-thirds of the Members present vote for it, the President shall cancel the Name of such Person in the Register, and at the same Time pronounce him ejected in these Words, viz. "By the Authority and in the Name of the Linnean Society of London, "I declare A. B. to be now ejected and no longer a (Fellow, &c. "as the Case may be) thereof." And the Ejection of every such Person shall be then recorded in the Minute-Book of the Society; and his Name, as ejected, shall be read at the next Anniversary Meeting.

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III. All Persons ejected from the Society shall be thereby rendered incapable of belonging to it in future.

CHAPTER VIII.

Of the Election of the Council and Officers.

SECT. I. Every Fellow of the Society residing in, or within the distance of Sixty Miles from, London, and whose Residence may be known to the Secretary or Clerk, shall be summoned to the Anniversary Meetings for electing the Council and Officers for the Year ensuing, by a Letter signed by the Secretary; and such Summons shall be sent by Post, to the House or Lodging of every such Fellow, a Week at the least before the Election, which by the Charter is directed to take place annually on the Twenty-fourth Day of May, being the Birth-Day of the celebrated Linnæus; unless that Day shall happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the

Day following. And each Anniversary Meeting shall also be advertised in Two or more of the public Newspapers, at least One Week before the same take place.

II. The Council for the Time being shall, before the Day of Election, cause to be prepared a sufficient Number of printed Balloting-Lists, according to the annexed Forms; One of which (No. I.) is to contain the Names of such Persons as they shall recommend to be removed from and elected into the Council, and the other (No. II.) to contain the Names of such Persons as they shall recommend to fill the Offices of President, Treasurer, and Secretary, for the ensuing Year.

III. On the Day of Election the President, or in his absence the senior Vice-President present, shall take the Chair precisely at One o'clock, P. M. and shall immediately open the Business of the Day; Two Balloting-Glasses being placed before the Chair. One of those Glasses shall remain open for receiving Lists for the Council until Half past Two o'Clock, and the other Glass shall remain open for receiving Lists for the Officers until Three o'Clock, P. M., at which respective Times the Ballots shall be closed.

IV. Balloting Lists shall be delivered to every Fellow who shall apply for them; and if any Fellow should not approve of the Persons therein named, but be desirous of giving his Vote for some other Person or Persons, he will strike his Pen across the printed Name or Names of the Person or Persons of whom he may disapprove, and will write over against such printed Name or Names on the blank Side left and prepared for that Purpose, the Name, or Names of the other Person or Persons for whom he may be desirous to give his Vote.

V. Each Fellow voting shall deliver his Balloting List or Lists, folded up, to the President or Vice-President in the Chair, who

shall,