488 Appendix. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Of the Death or Recess of any Fellow. 



THE Death or Recess of any Fellow of the Society shall be recorded 

 in the Journal-book of the Society, and the names of such persons 

 announced from the Chair, at the Anniversary Meeting for electing 

 the Council and Officers. 



CHAPTER Y. 



Of the Causes and Form of Ejection. 



I. IF any Fellow of the Society shall contemptuously or contuma- 

 ciously disobey the Statutes or Orders of the Society or Council ; or 

 shall, by speaking, writing, or printing, publicly defame the Society ; 

 or advisedly, maliciously, or dishonestly do anything to the damage, 

 detriment, or dishonour thereof, he shall be ejected out of the Society. 



II. Whensoever there shall appear to be cause for the ejection of any 

 Fellow out of the Society, the subject shall be laid before the Council ; 

 and if a majority of the Council shall, after due deliberation, deter- 

 mine by ballot to propose to the Society the ejection of the said 

 Fellow, the President shall in that case, at some Ordinary Meeting of 

 the Society, announce from the Chair such determination of the 

 Council ; and at the Ordinary Meeting next after that at which the 

 said announcement has been made, the Society shall proceed to deter- 

 mine the question ; and on its appearing that two-thirds of the 

 Members present have voted for the ejection of the said Fellow, the 

 President shall proceed to cancel his name in the Register, and at the 

 same time pronounce him ejected in these words : 



I do, ly the authority and in the name of the Eoyal Society of London, 

 for improving natural knowledge, declare A. B. to be now 

 ejected, and no longer a Fellow thereof. 



And the ejection of every such person shall be then recorded in 

 the Journal-book of the Society ; and his name, as ejected, be also 

 read at the next Anniversary Meeting for Elections. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Of the Election of the Council and Officers. 



I. AT the two Ordinary Meetings of the Society next preceding 

 the day of the Anniversary Election, the President shall give notice 

 of the said Election ; and declare how much it imports the good of the 

 Society, that such persons may be chosen into the Council, as are 



