494 Appendix. 



VIII. He shall attend the Library at such hours as shall be 

 appointed for him for the accommodation of such Fellows of the 

 Society as shall come to read the printed books or manuscripts, 

 and of any other person who shall be introduced by a Fellow, either 

 personally or by letter. 



IX. He shall mark, with the stamp of the Society, all books 

 accepted or bought by the Society. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Of the Meetings of the Society. 



I. THE Session of the Society shall commence on the third 

 Thursday in November, and end on the third Thursday in June. 



II. The ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be on Thursdays 

 weekly (excepting Christmas, Passion, Easter, and Whitsun weeks, 

 and such other weeks at Christmas and Easter, in each year, as the 

 Council may in the preceding year determine, and also Ascension 

 Day), and shall begin at half-past Four o'clock in the Afternoon 

 precisely. 



III. No stranger shall be permitted to be present during the 

 Meeting, unless by invitation of the President, or by his leave or 

 order upon the recommendation of some Fellow. 



IV. The business of the Society in their ordinary Meetings shall be 

 to order, take account, consider, and discourse of philosophical experi- 

 ments and observations ; to read, hear, and discourse upon letters, 

 reports, and other papers, containing philosophical matters ; as also 

 to view, and discourse upon, rarities of nature and art : and there- 

 upon to consider, what may be deduced from them, or any of them ; 

 and how far they, or any of them, may be improved for use or 

 discovery.* 



V. No letter, report, or other paper shall be read at any ordinary 

 Meeting unless it be communicated by a Fellow or Foreign Member ; 

 and it shall be the duty of each Fellow or Foreign Member to satisfy 

 himself that any letter, report, or other paper which he may com- 

 municate, is suitable to be read before the Society. 



VI. The President shall determine for each Meeting the com- 

 munications which are to be read, and the order in which they are to 

 be taken. Every communication duly received shall, unless other- 

 wise determined by the Committee of Papers, as provided in 

 Statute I. of Chapter XIII., be read by one of the Secretaries, either 

 in whole or in part, the title being considered a part, at some con- 

 venient ordinary Meeting of tbe Society, the President having power 

 to invite the author of any communication to give an oral exposi- 



* This is the wording of the Statute as given in the Statutes of 1663. 



