486 Appendix. 



XVI. No person shall be deemed a Fellow of the Society until he 

 has made the payments required by the Statutes; nor shall he be 

 entitled to vote at any Election or Meeting of the Society until he 

 shall have been admitted in the manner and form above specified. 



XVII. Persons may be elected into the Society, under the title of 

 Foreign Members, who are neither natives nor inhabitants of Her 

 Majesty's dominions, and shall be exempted from the operation of 

 Chapters II. and III. of these Statutes ; they shall be selected from 

 among men of the greatest eminence for their scientific discoveries 

 and attainments. 



XVIII. The Council shall from time to time, as they shall see fit, 

 put in nomination persons for Election as Foreign Members, not 

 exceeding, with those already elected, the number of fifty. 



XIX. A book shall be kept in which Members of the Council may 

 enter the names of those men of science whom they suggest as Foreign 

 Members ; each entry shall be signed by the proposer and be accom- 

 panied by a short statement of the principal grounds on which the 

 suggestion is made, and shall be valid for three years only. 



XX. When vacancies are to be filled up, a list of the persons so 

 entered shall be sent to each Member of the Council together with 

 notice of the Meeting at which the list will be considered. At the 

 Meeting thus appointed further entries may be made, and the claims 

 of those men of science whose names have been duly entered in the 

 book shall be considered, and a selection of names shall be made, 

 from among which the Council, at a subsequent Meeting to be then 

 appointed, may make nominations to the Society. 



XXI. At the second Meeting the selection of the Candidates to be 

 nominated shall be by ballot ; when, if two-thirds of the Members of 

 the Council present be in favour of the nomination of any Candidate, 

 his name shall be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting of the 

 Society, and shall be put to the vote at the following Ordinary 

 Meeting. 



CHAPTER II. 



Of the Obligation to be Subscribed. 



EVERY person elected a Fellow of the Society shall, before his 

 admission, subscribe the Obligation in the following words : 



We who have hereunto subscribed, do hereby promise each for himself, 

 that we will endeavour to promote the good of the Royal Society of 

 London, for improving natural knowledge, and to pursue the ends for 

 which the same was founded ; that we will be present at the Meetings of 

 the Society, as often as conveniently we can, especially at the Anniversary 

 Elections, and upon extraordinary occasions ; and that we will observe 

 the Statutes and Orders of the said Society. Provided, that whensoever 



