xi? Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 
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-Presi* 
dent in the Chair; and the Person or Persons whose Name or 
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 iii 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 pro- 
posed, 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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