Charter of the Linnean Society, 



Society of London ; " and them and their Successors for the 

 Purposes aforesaid, AVe do hereby constitute and declare to be 

 one Body Politic and Corporate, and by the same Name to have 

 perpetual Succession, and for ever hereafter to be Persons able 

 and capable in the Law, and have Power to purchase, receive, and 

 possess any Goods and Chattels whatsoever, and (notwithstanding 

 the Statutes of Mortmain), to purchase, hold, and enjoy, to them 

 and their Successors, any Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments 

 whatsoever, not exceeding, at the Time or Times of purchasing such 

 Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, respectively, the yearly 

 Value, at a Eack Eent, of One Thousand Pounds in the whole, with- 

 out incurring the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statutes of Mort- 

 main, or any of them; And by the name aforesaid, to sue and be sued, 

 plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and 

 be defended, in all Courts and Places whatsoever of Us, Our Heirs, 

 and Successors, in all Actions, Suits, Causes, and Things whatsoever, 

 and to act and do in all Things relating to the said Corporation in 

 as ample Manner and Porm as any other our liege Subjects, being 

 Persons able and capable in the Law, or any other Body Politic or 

 Corporate,in ur said United Kingdom of Grreat Britain andlreland, 

 may or can act or do ; and also to have and to use a Common Seal, 

 and the same to change and alter, from Time to Time, as they shall 

 think fit. And We do hereby declare, and grant, that there shall be 

 an indefinite Number of Pellows of the said Society ; and that they 

 the said George Earl of Dartmouth, James Edward Smith, Thomas 

 Mar sham, Alexander MacLeay, Jonas Dryander, Samuel Good- 

 enough, Ayhner Bourke Lamlert, Michard Anthony Salishury, 

 TVilliam George Maton, Thomas Furley Forster, Charles Satchett, 

 William Leicis, Thomas Mackett, John Symmons, and Thomas 

 Young, shall be the first Fellows of the said Society ; and that 

 any Five, or more of them, all having been first duly summoned 

 to attend the Meetings of the said Fellows, shall and may, on op 

 before the Twenty-fourth Day of May, next ensuing the Date of 

 these Presents, under their respective Hands' writing, appoint 

 such other persons to be Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign 

 Members, and Associates, of the said Society, as they may respect- 

 ively think fit, And We do further declare and grant, that, for 

 the better Eule and Government of the said Society, and for the 

 better Direction, Management, and Execution of the Business 

 and Concerns thereof, there shall be henceforth for ever, a 

 Council, President, Treasurer, and Secretary, of the said Society, 

 to be elected in Manner hereinafter mentioned ; and that such 



