Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. ix 
III. No Person shall be proposed as a Fellow, or be capable 
of being elected as such, until he shall have fully attained the 
Age of Twenty-one Years. 
IV. Each Recommendation of a Candidate for Admission as a 
Fellow, shall be hung up in the common Meeting-Room of the 
Society, the Date of the Payoji wk'^k~w-*fr»4i be presented being 
previously written^or^-itrand shall be read at Three successive 
General Meetings, between the Meeting at which the same shall 
be presented and the Meeting at which the Ballot for Election 
shall take place. 
V. No Person shall be declared to be elected a Fellow, unless 
he have in his Favour Two-thirds of the Number balloting. 
VI. Every Person chosen a Fellow shall have immediate Notice 
of his Election given to him by the Secretary, and shall appear 
personally for his Admission within the Space of Two Months from 
the Day of his Election, or within such further Time as shall be 
granted by the Society or Council, upon special Application 
being made to them for that Purpose; and, in default of his so 
appearing, his Election shall be void. 
VII. No Person elected shall be admitted a Fellow of the 
Society, until he shall have paid his Admission-Fee, and gives 
the usual Bond for the Payment of Yearly Contributions, or paid 
the Sum appointed in lieu of such Contributions, 
VIII. Every Person elected a Fellow of the Society shall, 
before his Admission, subscribe an Obligation in the following 
Words, viz. " We who have hereunto subscribed do hereby 
" promise, each for himself, that we will endeavour to promote 
" the Good of The Linnean Society of London, and to pursue the 
" Ends for which the same was instituted : That we will be present 
" at the Meetings of the Society, as often as conveniently we 
" can, especially at the Anniversary Elections, and upon extraor- 
vol. vji. c " dinary 
