IX. The Society may, on the recommendation of the 

 Council, elect Tivelve British Honorary Members (including 

 Indian and Colonial) and Tiventy Foreign Honorary Members, 

 — persons who have acquired eminence in Forestry at home 

 or abroad, or who are otherwise deemed worthy. The 

 Society may also, on the recommendation of the Council, 

 elect Honorary Associate Members ; but an Hoiwrary Member 

 or an Honorary Associate Member, who has not been elected 

 from the list of Life or Ordinary Members of the Society, 

 shall not be eligible for election as an Ofifice-Bearer in the 

 Society, and shall not vote at any of its meetings, 



X. The Society may accept, from time to time, donations 

 to its Property and Funds, Library and Museum, also 

 Premiums to be awarded for the furtherance of any of its 

 objects. 



XL The Funds of the Society shall, with the concurrence 

 of the Council for the time being, be invested in such 

 Trust security or securities as they shall approve, and 

 shall be held in the names of three Trustees for behoof 

 of the Society. 



XII. Every Proposal for Membership shall be made in 

 writing, and shall be signed by two Members of the Society 

 as Proposer and Seconder, and delivered to the Secretary to 

 be laid before the Council, which shall accept or otherwise 

 deal with each proposal as it may deem best in the interest 

 of the Society. The Proposer and Seconder shall be respon- 

 sible for payment of the new Member's first Subscription. 

 The Council shall have power to decide the Class under 

 which any Candidate for Membership shall be placed. 



XIII. The Council, by a two-thirds majority, and with 

 the approval of the President, shall have power to expel any 

 Member for any cause which shall appear to a meeting of the 

 Council to require such action ; it shall not be necessary for 

 the Council to assign any reason for such expulsion, and all 

 persons so expelled shall thereupon cease to be Members, 

 and to have any interest in the Society or its concerns. 



