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tions be very well known as well abroad as at home," enacted a Statute 

 providing- that in the case of such persons the certificate should be 

 signed by at least "three Foreign Fellows," as well as at least "by 



three Fellows named in the Home List." And in 1765 

 Ann. 1765. (j) ec 19) on a proposal " to restrain the number of foreign 

 members," it was resolved "that no foreigner be proposed for election 

 that is not known to the learned world, by some publication or 

 invention which may enable the Society to form a judgment of his 

 merit, and that till the number of foreign members be reduced to 

 eighty, not more than two shall be admitted in one year." A special 

 mode of procedure in the election of foreigners as Fellows was, at the 

 same time, resolved upon, providing for the election of two a year ; 

 and a subsequent resolution (Dec. 26) provides that Foreign Members 

 paying contributions shall " have their names printed in an alphabetical 

 List next after that of the Home Members, as Foreign Members* 

 contributing towards the expenses of the Society," and so distinct from 

 "other foreign members" "who do not contribute." On January 16 



of the next year the limitation to eighty was withdrawn, 



and the above resolutions were then embodied in the form 

 of Statutes. These at the same time provided that the new regulation 

 should not extend to Foreign Princes or their sons, and gave permission 

 to foreigners resident in Great Britain to become Fellows in the usual 

 Ann 1769 wav > which permission was extended on Jan. 26, 1769, to 



foreigners who had been resident in Great Britain for the 

 Ann. 1773. space of six months. Soon after, namely on June 10th, 1773, 



the word " Foreigner " appears in the " Register" for the 

 first time, being placed after the names of Stehelin, Le Roy, and LeDuc; 

 thenceforward it is used frequentty. 



In the Edition of 1776 these regulations, in a somewhat 

 Ann. 1776. moc jifi e( j f orm? are introduced as part of Sec. 8 of Cap. I. ; 

 the limitation to the election of two a year is omitted, and the certifi- 

 cates, signed by at least three Fellows upon the Foreign List, and at 

 least by three Fellows on the Home List, are directed to be suspended 

 from the 30th November until the weekly Meeting on, or next after, 



the 30th May. Some years afterwards, however (March 8, 

 Ann. 1787. 1787 ^ tnis part of g ec> g was re pealed, and a new Sec. 9 



added, which provides a somewhat complex mode of procedure in the 

 election, under the title of " Foreign Members," f of persons " who are 

 neither natives nor inhabitants of his Majesty's dominions." The number 

 is limited to one hundred. Certificates signed by six or more Fellows 

 are to be presented at some meeting between Easter and the Anniver- 



* It may be remarked that in the early records of the Society the words 

 " Member " and "Fellow" appear to be used indiscriminately. 



f Foreign Member as distinguished from Fellow. In the edition of 1776 

 and thenceforward the term Member, as applied to an ordinary Fellow, is never used. 





