Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. xv 



CHAPTER VI. 



Of the Death or Withdrawing 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 Year; 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 No Fellow shall be understood to have withdrawn himself 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 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 Year and the First Day of 

 February next following, the Contribution of such Fellow shall 

 be understood to be continued for the Whole of the Year in which 

 he shall have so withdrawn himself. 



CHAPTER VII. 



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, publickly 

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

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

 he shall be ejected from the Society. 



II. When- 



