452 LAWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



This recommendation shall be delivered to the Secretary, and by him laid 

 before the Council, and shall afterwards be read at each of three ordinary 

 meetings of the Society, previous to the day of the election, and shall lie 

 upon the table during that time. 



XIV. 



Any Three Members may transmit, through the Secretary to the 

 Council, recommendations of Foreign and Honorary Members. Foreign 

 and Honorary Members may also be proposed by the Council, and they 

 shall be elected in the same manner as the Ordinary Members. 



XV. 



The Classes shall meet alternately on the first and third Mondays of 

 every month, from November to June inclusive. It shall be competent, 

 however, to bring matters of a Physical or Literary kind, before either 

 Class of the Society indiscriminately. To facilitate this, one Minute-book 

 shall be kept for both Classes ; the Secretaries of the respective Classes 

 either doing the duty alternately, or according to such agreement as they 

 may find it convenient to make. 



XVI. 



The Society shall from time to time make a publication of its Trans- 

 actions and Proceedings. For this purpose the Council shall select and ar- 

 range the papers which they shall deem worthy of publication in the 

 Transactions of the Society, and shall superintend the printing of the 

 same. 



The Transactions shall be published in Parts or Fasciculi, and the 

 expence shall be defrayed by the Society. 



XVII. 



There shall be elected annually, for conducting the publications and 

 regulating the private business of the Society, a Council, consisting of a 

 President ; Four Vice-Presidents, two of whom shall be resident ; a Pre- 

 sident for each Class of the Society ; Six Counsellors for each Class ; one 



