xxxiv Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 
Copy of the Charter and Bye-Laws, and also the Obligation to 
be subscribed by the Fellows of the Society in their own Hand- 
writing. 
II. There shall be had and kept a Book, containing the 
Register of the Fellows of the Society, with the Times of their 
Election and Admission. 
III. There shall be had and kept Minnte-Books for the So- 
ciety and Conncil ; in which shall be entered all the Minutes, 
Orders, and Business of the Society and Council at their re- 
spective Meetings. 
IV. No Fellow shall give any Copy, or any Transcript of any 
Matter contained in the Minutes, or other Books of the Society, 
to any one not being a Member thereof; nor communicate the 
same to any such Person to be transcribed, without particular 
Leave obtained of the Council; except the said Matter should 
have been originally brought in, or communicated by himself: 
But any Fellow of the Society may, at proper Times, and in the 
Society's House, have the Liberty of inspecting any Article in 
the Minute-Books of the Society. 
V. The original Copy of every Paper, after having been read 
before the Society, shall be considered as the Property of the 
Society, if there should be no previous Engagement with its 
Author to the contrary : but any Author may have a Copy of 
his own Papers by Leave of the Council. 
VI. All the Papers which shall have been read before, or com- 
municated to the Society in the Course of each Year, and not 
withdrawn by Leave of the Council, shall be delivered to the 
Council, and shall be preserved in Guard-Books, for future 
Inspection ; and shall never be lent out of the Society's House 
without an Order of the Council. 
CHAFFER 
