Vli. 

 The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 



VIII. 



The Ordinary Fellows, upon producing an order from the Treasuher, shall be 

 entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of the Society's Trans- 

 actions ^^'hich shall be published subsequent to their admission. 



IX. 



A'o person shall be proposed as an Ordinary Fellow, without a recommendar- 

 tion subscribed by 0)ie 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)f 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. 



■j- We hereby recommend 



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. 



