502 Appendix. 



meeting at which twenty-one Fellows (as prescribed by Charter) are 

 present ; but that every one of his Majesty's subjects having the title 

 and place of Baron, or any higher title and place, and every one of his 

 Majesty's Privy Council, may be propounded and put to the vote the 

 same day. And Sec. 3 of the same chapter provides that " the name 

 of every person propounded as a Candidate, together with the name of 

 the Fellow proposing, shall be entered in the Journal-book;" by 

 which it appears that " propounding " by one Fellow was sufficient. 



In 1682, however, the following was proposed on August 2, 



Ann. looJ. 



and passed on August 5 : 



" The Statute for Election of Fellows having by long Experience 

 been found insufficient for bringing in persons qualifyed for the ends 

 of the Institution of the Royal Society, few ballotting in the negative 

 and presuming the person to be well known to the Member that Pro- 

 poseth the Candidate, it is thought requisite by the Councell to propose 

 this Statute following, 



" Every person that would propose a Candidate shall first give in his 

 Name to some of the Councell, that so in the next Councell it may be 

 discoursed viva voce whether the person is known to be so qualified 

 as in probability to be usefull to the Society. And if the Councell 

 return no other Answer but that they desire further time to be 

 acquainted with the gentleman proposed, the Proposer is to take that 

 for an Answer. And if they are well assured that the Candidate may 

 be usefull to the Society then the Candidate shall be proposed at the 

 next meeting of the Society and ballotted according to the Statute in 

 that behalf, and shall immediately sign the usual Bond and pay his 

 admission mony upon his Admission." 



(Neither the Statutes of 1663, nor the Edition of 1752, make any 

 mention of the " Bond for the payment of the contribution ; " the words 

 first occur in the Edition of 1776, but the actual Bonds preserved in the 

 Archives of the Society date from January 1, 1674, onwards.) 

 A 1727 ^ n ^^ (January 9th) the following Statute was passed, 

 that of 1682 being apparently repealed: 



" Every Person to be Elected Fellow of the Society shall first at a 

 Meeting of the Society be propounded as a Candidate to be approved 

 by the Council, and shall be recommended by three members, one of 

 which at least shall be a member of the Council, and one of them shall 

 at the same Time mention and specify the qualifications of the said 

 Candidate. And afterwards such Person shall at another meeting of 

 the Society (whereat there shall be a competent Number for making 

 Elections) be refered back from the Council if approved, and shall then 

 be propounded and put to the Vote for Election, Saving and Excepting 

 that it shall be free for everj^ one of his Majesties Subjects who is a 

 Peer or the Son of a Peer of Great Britain or Ireland, and for every 

 oae of his Majesties Privy Council of either of the said kingdoms to 



