14. HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



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THE ordinary members, whofe ufual refidence is in the city of 

 Edinburgh, or its immediate neighbourhood, are expected to at- 

 tend regularly the monthly meetings ; and are required to de- 

 fray, by an annual contribution, the current expences of the in- 

 flitution. The members who refide at fuch a diftance from 

 Edinburgh, that they cannot enjoy the advantages arifing from 

 a regular attendance on the meetings of the Society, are not 

 fubjected to any contribution for defraying its expences, but 

 have a right to attend thofe meetings when occasionally in Edin- 

 burgh, and to take part in all their proceedings. 



Committee for THE compilation of the printed tranfactions of the Royal So- 



Publication. . r . r . 



ciety or Edinburgh, is to be made in the following manner : 

 The papers read at the monthly meetings, and depofited in the 

 hands of the Secretaries of the two clafTes, are fubjected to the 

 review of the Committee for publication , which confifts of the Pre- 

 fident, Vice-Prefidents and Council, the General Secretary and 

 Treafurer of the Society ; together with the Prefidents and Se- 

 cretaries of the two clafles. This Committee makes a {election 

 of papers, and determines the order in which they are to be 

 publifhed. It is not, however, to be underflood, that thofe pa- 

 pers which do not appear in the Tranfactions of the Society, 

 are thought unfit for the public eye. Several papers have been 

 communicated with the fole view of furnifhing an occafional 

 entertainment to the members ; and that end being anfwered, 

 have been withdrawn by their authors : EfTays, obfervations, 

 and cafes, are often read at the meetings of the Society, in or- 

 der to obtain the opinions of the members on interefling or 

 intricate fubjects : Some papers intended for a future publica- 

 tion have been withdrawn for the prefent by their authors, in 

 order to profit by what has occurred in the converfations which 

 the reading of the papers has fuggefted ; and others, of acknow- 

 ledged merit, the Committee has found it necefTary to referve 



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