ABSTRACT OF SOME OF THE BY-LAWS RELATIVE TO FELLOWS. 



Every Candidate for Admission must be proposed by three or more Fellows, who shall certify, from 

 personal knowledge, his Christian name, surname, rank, profession, qualifications and residence. Before 

 a Candidate is proposed, it is the duty of the proposer to make known to him that, if elected, he cannot 

 be admitted until he shall have paid the admission fee of Five Guineas, and until he shall also have 

 paid Twenty Guineas in lieu of all future payments, or have given a bond for the regular payment of 

 Two Guineas annually ; but if he be not usually resident in Britain, the composition of Twenty Guineas 

 must at once be paid. 



Every person elected a Fellow must appear personally to be admitted, within two months after his 

 Election, or within such further time as, upon special application, the Society or Council may grant ; and 

 in default of his not so appearing his Election shall be void. 



Annual Contributions fall due on the 24th of May for the year preceding ; but no Fellow elected on 

 or after the 1st of February in any year, shall be required to pay the Annual Contribution in the same year. 



Fellows failing to pay their Annual Contributions within twelve months after the same fall due, are 

 liable to legal prosecution for the recovery thereof, and also to ejection from the Society. 



The Fellows ai"e entitled to receive, gratis, all Volumes, or Parts of Volumes, of the Transactions that 

 may be published after their Election, if they shall have paid the Composition in lieu of Annual 

 Payments, or after they shall have paid one yearly Contribution ; and they may be supplied with any 

 of the Volumes published before their Election, at a reduction of 25 per cent, under the common 

 selling prices, as follows, viz. 



Volume. When Price to tlie Price to 



Published. Public. Fellows. 



I. 1791 £\ 1 £0 16 



11. 1794. 1 5 19 



III. 1797 1 S 19 " 



IV. 1798 15 19 



V. 1800 1 1 16 



VL 1802 2 2 1116 



VIL 1804 1 11 6 14 



VIII. - 1807 1 11 6 1 4 



IX. 1808 2 2 1 11 6 



X. Part I. 1810 1 1 16 



11. 1811 1 11 6 1 4 



XI. Part I. 1813 1 1 16 



II. 1815 1 11 6 14 



XII. Parti. 1817 1 11 6 1 4 



II. 1819 2 2 1 11 6 



XIII. Part I. 1821 2 10 1 17 6 



Partll. 1822 2 1 10 



XIV. Parti. 1823 1 1 16 



Vol. VII. contains the Charter and By-Laws of the Society. 



Members are to apply to Mr. Don, the Librarian, for such Volumes as they may be entitled to, or 

 be desirous to purchase ; but no Volume can be delivered, gratis, to a Fellow whose yearly Contri- 

 butions are in arrear, nor can any be delivered unless applied for within five years from the time of 

 publication. 



The Library and Museum are open to all Members of the Society between the Hours of Twelve 

 and Four, every day, Saturdays excepted ; and Fellows may introduce their Friends in person, but 

 not otherwise. 



The Ordinary Meetings are held on the third Tuesday in January, the first and third Tuesdays in 

 February, March and April, the first Tuesday in May, and on the first and third Tuesdays in June, No- 

 vember and December, at Eight o' Clock in the Evening; and every Member may introduce a Friend. 



The Anniversary Meeting for the Election of Council and Officers is held on the 24th of May, or on 

 the following day if the 24th should happen to be a Sunday. 



SJ" Communications intended to be made to this Society may be addressed to the President, or to the Secretary, at 



the House of the Society, Soho-square, London. 



