Charter of the Linnean Society. Hi 
able and capable in the Law, or any other Body Politic or Cor- 
porate, in Our said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 
may or can act or do; And also to have and to use a Common Common 
Seal, and the same to change and alter, from Time to Time, as 
they shall think fit. And We do hereby declare, and grant, that Number of 
there shall be an indefinite Number^- JFellows of the said finite. s ' 
Society ; and that they^Cne said George Earl of Dartmouth, Fir8t 1 ' ellows 
J > J o » named. 
James Edward Smith, Thomas Marsham, Alexander MacLeay, 
Jonas Dryander, Samuel Goodenough, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 
Richard Anthony Salisbury, William George Maton, Thomas 
Furly Forster, Charles Hatchett, William Lewis, Thomas Rackett, 
John Symmons, and Thomas Young, shall be the first Fellows of the 
said Society; and that any Five, or more of them, all having been Any Fire m 
first duly summoned to attend the Meetings of the said Fellows, shall, on or 
shall and may, on or before the Twenty-fourth Day of May, next 21th of May, 
ensuing the Date of these Presents, under their respective Hands' other Mem- 
writing, appoint such other Persons to be Fellows, Honorary 
Members, Foreign Members, and Associates, of the said So- 
ciety, as thev may respectively think fit. And We do furth- a Council to 
J ' J J l J consist of 15 
er declare and grant, that, for the better Rule and Govern- Fellow; 
ment of the said Society, and for the better Direction, 
Management, and Execution of the Business and Concerns 
thereof, there shall be henceforth for ever, a Council, President, 
Treasurer, and Secretary, of the said Society, to be elected in 
Manner hereinafter mentioned ; and that such Council shall con- 
sist of Fifteen Members, to be elected from among the Fellows, as 
hereinafter directed, whereof any Five shall be a Quorum : And ^qJJJUJ 
We do hereby nominate and appoint the said George Earl of Dart- First Council 
mouth, James Edward Smith, Thomas Marsham, Alexander MacLcay, 
Jonas Dryander, Samuel Goodenough, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 
Richard Anthony Salisbury, William George Maton, Thomas Furly 
B 2 Forster. 
