Bijc-Lazvs of the Linne&n Society. \'m 
CHAPTER IV. 
Of the Foreign Members. 
Sect. I. No Person sh^Jl^rr-r^^TEcT^Tornfrn Member of the 
Society until the Nrrfuher 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, Qua- 
lity 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 Meeting 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 Anni- 
versary, 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 
