504 Appendix. 



As far, then, as the election and admission of Fellows are concerned, 

 no new Statutes were enacted in 1752 ; the Edition of that year 

 simply adds to the Statutes of 1663 the two enacted in 1727 and the 

 one enacted in 1730. 



The Election of Council and Officers. 



Ann 1663 In tne ori g mal Statutes, Cap. VII., "Of the Election of 

 the Council and Officers" makes arrangements that the 

 eleven members of the existing Council who are to be continued 

 should first be determined, after that the ten new members, and finally 

 the officers. The Statutes of 1752, reproduce the chapter in its original 

 Ann 1735 ^ orm oi 12 sections, with the addition of Sec. 13, enacted 

 in 1735, which provides that in order to lessen the 

 tediousness of the election, Fellows may give in at the same time 

 three lists (1) of 11 old Members of Council to continue, (2) of 

 10 new Members, (3) of Officers. 



The Philosophical Transactions. 



But the most important changes introduced in 1752, those which 

 probably led to the issue of the new version of the Statutes in that year, 

 Ann 1663 re ^ a * e t ^ e Philosophical Transactions. In the old Statutes, 



Cap. XIII., " Of the Printer to the Society," provides for 

 the printing and binding of books, catalogues, and such other things 

 by order of the Society or Council ; there are no other provisions as 

 Ann 1665 to P ub hcations. The Philosophical Transactions were 



begun in 1665 ; but up to the 46th volume inclusive, pub- 

 lished in 1749-50, " the printing of them was always, from time to 

 time, the single act of the respective Secretaries " (Adv. to Philosophical 

 Transactions, vol. 47), though with regard to the first number the 

 Council (Minutes, March 1, 1664) ordered "that the Philosophical 

 Transactions, to be composed by Mr. Oldenburg, be printed the first 

 Munday of every month, if he have sufficient matter for it, and that 

 that Tract be licensed by the Council of the Society, being first reviewed 

 by some of the Members of the same. And that the President be 

 desired, now to Licence the first papers thereof, being written in four 

 sheets in folio, to be printed by John Martyn and James Allestree," 

 and this practice of licensing was continued with reference to 

 those papers read before the Society which were published in the 

 Transactions. 



In 1752 it was determined to place the Philosophical 



nn * ' Transactions directly in the hands of the Council, and the 



Edition of the Statutes of 1752, while leaving Cap. XIII. intact, 



adds the following two new chapters, enacted March 26th of that 



year : 



