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cil, and, if they see fit, shall be declared from that period to be no longer Members, 

 and the legal means for recovering such arrears shall be employed. 



VI. None but Ordinary Members shall bear any office in the Society, or vote in 

 the choice of Member or Office-bearers, or interfere in the patrimonial interests of the 

 Society. 



VII. The number of Ordinary Members shall be unlimited. 



VIII. The Ordinary Members, upon producing an order from the Treasurer, 

 shall be entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of the Society's Trans- 

 actions which shall be published subsequent to their admission. 



IX. No person shall be proposed as an Ordinary Member, without a recommenda- 

 tion subscribed by One Ordinary Member, to the purport below*. This recommenda- 

 tion 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. 



X. The Foreign Members shall not be subject to the Annual Contributions, nor 

 to any Fee on admission. They shall be limited to the number of Thirty-six, and 

 shall consist of Foreigners distinguished in Science and Literature. 



XI. The Honorary Members shall not be subject to the Annual Contribution, 

 nor to any Fee on admission. They shall be limited to the number of Twenty-one, 

 and shall consist of persons eminently distinguished in Science and Literature. 



XII. Any Three Members may transmit, through the Secretary to the Council, 

 recommendations of Foreign and Honorary Members. Foreign and Honorary Mem- 



" A. B. a gentleman well skilled in several branches of Science (or Polite Literature, as the case 

 " may be), being to my knowledge desirous of becoming a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I 

 " hereby recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely to prove an useful and valuable 

 Member." 



This recommendation to be accompanied by a request of admission, signed by the Candidate. 



