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RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



administered by a Council of twenty-one persons, of whom ten 

 shall retire each year on St. Andrew's Day, when a new election 

 of Council and officers shall take place. The election of the 

 Council, the President, the Treasurer, and the two Secretaries is 

 placed in the hands of the President, Council, and Fellows, as 

 is also the reception and admission of members. But, otherwise, 

 ' the making of laws, statutes, and ordinances, and the transaction 

 of all matters relating to management of the Society and its 

 affairs ' is entrusted to the President and Council alone. Hence 

 by the Charter, the By-Laws, or Statutes (pp. 117-58) as they are 

 called, by which the Society is governed, are made and changed 

 by the President and Council. At p. 159 will be found some 

 Notes on the Statutes, which give a brief history of the suc- 

 cessive changes in the internal administration by the President 

 and Council from the foundation of the Society to the present time. 

 The Council and officers nominated in the first Charter were 

 re-nominated in the second, except that the names of Sir George 

 Talbot and Abraham Hill were substituted for those of Dr. Wallis 

 and Dr. Christopher Wren, and that William Balle was designated 

 Treasurer and John Welkins and Henry Oldenburg, Secretaries. 

 The second Charter contained a provision that all persons whom 

 the President and Council should receive into the Society within 

 two months from the date of the Charter should be named Fellows 

 of the Royal Society. In accordance with this provision, at a 

 meeting held on May 20, 1663, the following persons were 

 declared to be members, and they, together with four members 

 who were subsequently elected at a meeting held on June 22 

 (see Chronological Register of Fellows), constituted the original 

 Fellows of the Society : 



William, Lord Brouncker. Pres. 



James, Lord Annesley. 



William Areskine, Esq. 



John Alley n, Esq. 



Elias Ashmole, Esq. 



John Austen, Esq. 



John Awbrey, Esq. 



George, Duke of Buckingham. 



George, Lord Berkeley. 



Robert, Lord Bruce. 



Robert Boyle, Esq. 

 Richard Boyle, Esq. 

 William Brereton, Esq. 

 Thomas Baines, M.D. 

 Isaac Barrow, B.D. 

 William Balle, Esq. 

 Peter Balle, M.D. 

 John Brook, Esq. 

 David Bruce, M.D. 

 George Bate, M.D. 



