xvi Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society, 
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 Anniver- 
sary Meeting. 
III. All Persons ejected from the Society shall be thereby 
rendered incapable of belonging to it in future. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
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, aW r eek 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 Linnaeus; 
unless that Day shall happen to be on a Sunday, and then on the 
Day 
