Defaulters. 
Privileges of 
Ordinary Fellows. 
Numbers Un- 
limited. 
Fellows entitled 
to Transactions. 
Mode of Recom- 
mending Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Honorary Fellows, 
British and 
Foreign. 
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land, and wishing to continue a Fellow of the Society, it shall be in the power of 
the Council to determine on what terms, in the circumstances of each case, the 
privilege of remaining a Fellow of the Society shall be continued to such Fellow 
while out of Scotland. 
V. 
Members failing to pay their contribution for three successive years (due ap- 
plication having been made to them by the Treasurer) shall be reported to the 
Council, and, if they see fit, shall be declared from that period to be no longer 
Fellows, and the legal means for recovering such arrears shall be employed. 
VI 
None but ordinary Fellows shall bear any office in the Society, or vote in the 
choice of Fellows or Office-Bearers, or interfere in the patrimonial interests of the 
Society. 
VII. 
The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 
VIL. 
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. 
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Honorary Fellows shall not be subject to any contribution. This class shall 
* « A. B.,a gentleman well skilled in several branches of Science (er 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, 
