Vil, 
The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 
VI. 
The Ordinary Fellows, upon producing an order from the Treasurer, shall be 
entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of the Society’s Trans- 
actions which shall be published subsequent to their admission. 
IX. 
No person shall be proposed as an Ordinary Fellow, without a recommenda- 
tion subscribed by One Ordinary Fellow, to the purport below.* This recom- 
mendation shall be delivered to the Secretary, and by him laid before the Council, 
and shall afterwards be printed in the circulars for three Ordinary Meetings of 
the Society, previous to the day of the election, and shall lie upon the table during 
that time. 
X. 
Honorary Fellows shall not be subject to any Contribution. This class shall 
consist of persons eminently distinguished for science or literature, Its number 
shall not exceed Fifty-six, of whom twenty may be British subjects, and thirty- 
six may be subjects of foreign states. 
XI. 
Personages of Royal Blood may be elected Honorary Fellows, without regard 
to the limitation of numbers specified in Law X. 
XII. 
Honorary Fellows may be proposed by the Council, or by a recommendation 
(in the form given below)+ subscribed by three Ordinary Fellows; and in case 
* “ A. B., a gentleman well skilled in several branches of Science (or Polite Literature as the 
** case may be), being to my knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 
“burgh, I hereby recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely to prove a useful and 
“ valuable Member.” 
This recommendation to be accompanied by a request of admission signed by the Candidate. 
+ We hereby recommend 4 
for the distinction of being made an Honorary Fellow of this Society, declaring that each of us from 
our own knowledge of his services to (Literature or Science as the case may be) believe him to be 
worthy of that honour. 
(To be signed by three Ordinary Fellows.) 


To the President and Council of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh. 
