xxxir Bye-Laws of the Linnean Society. 



Copy of the Charter and Bye-Laws, and also the Obligation to 

 be subscribed by the Fellows of the Society in their own Hand- 

 writing;. 



II. There shall be had and kept a Book, containing the 

 Register of the Fellows of the Society, with the Times of their 

 Election and Admission. 



III. There shall be had and kept Minute-Books for the So- 

 ciety and Council ; in which shall be entered all the Minutes, 

 Orders, and Business of the Society and Council at their re- 

 spective Meetings. 



IV. No Fellow shall give any Copy, or any Transcript of any 

 Matter contained in the Minutes, or other Books of the Society, 

 to any one not being a Member thereof; nor communicate the 

 same to any such Person to be transcribed, without particular 

 Leave obtained of the Council; except the said Matter should 

 have been originally brought in, or communicated by himself: 

 But any Fellow of the Society may, at proper Times, and in the 

 Society's House, have the Liberty of inspecting any Article in 

 the Minute- Books of the Society. 



V. The original Copy of every Paper, after having been read 

 before the Society, shall be considered as the Property of the 

 Society, if there should be no previous Engagement with its 

 Author to the contrary : but any Author may have a Copy of 

 his own Papers by Leave of the Council. 



VI. All the Papers which shall have been read before, or com- 

 municated to the Society in the Course of each Year, and not 

 withdrawn by Leave of the Council, shall be delivered to the 

 Council, and shall be preserved in Guard-Books, for future 

 Inspection; and shall neyer be lent out of the Society's House, 

 without an Order of the Council. 



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