16 Bye-Law8 of the Idnnean Society. 



Person as an Associate, announce the same, by Letter, to the 

 Person who may be so elected, and shall transmit to him a printed 

 Copy of the Statutes and Bye-Laws of the Society, with the List 

 of the Members. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 Of the Death or Withdraioing of Members. 



Sect. I. Upon the Death or the voluntary "Withdrawing of any 

 Fellow, Honorary Member, Foreign Member, or Associate, the 

 Secretary shall note such Death or Withdrawing in the printed 

 List of that Tear ; and the Death or Withdrawing of any Member 

 shall be entered upon the Minutes of the Society at the then next 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



II. No Fellow shall be understood to have withdrawn himself 

 from the Society until he shall have paid all Arrears that may be 

 due, and signified such his Intention by Letter, under his Hand, 

 addressed to the President ; and if such Letter be not left at the 

 Apartments of the Society, between the Twenty-Fourth Day of 

 May in any Tear and the First Day of February next following, 

 the Contribution of such Fellow shall be understood to be con- 

 tinued for the Whole of the Tear in which he shaU have so with- 

 drawn himself. 



CHAPTEE YIL 

 Of the Causes and Form of Ejection. 



Sect. I. If any Member of the Society should, contemptuously, 

 or contumaciously, disobey the Statutes or Orders of the Society 

 or Council ; or should, by speaking, writing, or printing, publicly 

 defame the Society ; or advisedly, maliciously, or dishonestly, do 

 any Thing to the Damage, Detriment, or Dishonour thereof, he 

 shall be liable to Ejection from the Society. 



II. Whensoever there shall be Cause for the Ejection of any 

 Member from the Society, the President shall, at some Meeting 

 thereof, propose the Ejection of such Member ; and at the next 

 General Meeting the Question shall be put to the Ballot, and if 

 Two-thirds of the Members present vote for it, the President 

 shall cancel the Name of such Person in the Register, and at the 

 same Time pronounce him ejected in these Words, viz. " By the 

 " Authority and in the Name of the Linnean Society of London, 

 " I declare A. B. to be now ejected and no longer a (Fellow, &c. 



