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VIII. At the first ordinary Meeting of the Society in May, the President, or 

 his deputy, shall read from the Chair the names of the Candidates whom the 

 Council have selected as most eligible, arranged in alphabetical order ; and 

 after such Meeting, a circular letter shall be forthwith sent to every Fellow, 

 naming the day and hour of election, and enclosing a printed list of the 

 selected Candidates, with space for such alterations as any Fellow may deter- 

 mine to make in pursuance of Statute X. 



IX. The election of Ordinary Fellows, not included in the privileged classes 

 referred to in Statute IV. of this Chapter, shall take place on the first Thursday 

 of June ; unless the Council shall alter the day of Election to any other day in 

 the month of June, in which case due notice of such alteration shall be given 

 to every Ordinary Fellow. 



X. On the day of Election two Scrutators shall be nominated by the 

 President, with the approbation of the Society, to assist the Secretaries in 

 examining the lists ; and each Fellow present and voting, shall deliver to one 

 of the Secretaries or Scrutators, one of the printed lists mentioned in 

 Statute VIII., having erased the name of any Candidate or Candidates for 

 whom he does not vote, and. if he shall have thought fit, having substituted 

 or added the name of any other Candidate or Candidates contained in the 

 printed list sent in pursuance of Statute VI. of this Chapter. 



XI. One of the Secretaries shall take down the names of the Fellows who 

 vote, and the Scrutators, after examining the lists with the Secretaries, shall 

 report to the President or his deputy the names of the Candidates who shall 

 have been duly elected in compliance with the Charters, and the President or 

 his deputy shall announce those names from the Chair. 



XII. Any Candidate announced at the first ordinary Meeting of the Society 

 in March, as aforesaid, who shall not have been elected, shall, if his proposers 

 .so desire, continue a Candidate; his name shall be placed in alphabetical 

 order with those of the new Candidates to be announced in March following, 

 without reference to the date of his Certificate ; and his Certificate shall be 

 suspended in the Meeting-room in the same manner as those of the new 

 Candidates. 



XIII. Every person who is elected a Fellow shall appear for his admission 

 on or before the fourth ordinary Meeting of the Society after his Election, or 

 within such further time as shall, for some sufficient cause, be granted by the 

 Council : otherwise his Election shall be void. 



XIV. The Admission of any Fellow into the Society shall be at some 

 ordinary Meeting, in manner and form following, he having first made the 

 payments required by the Statutes. Immediately after the reading of the 

 Minutes has been concluded, he shall subscribe the Obligation in the Charter- 

 lx>ok, and be introduced to the President, who, taking him by the hand, shall 

 say these words : I do, by the authority, and in the name, of the Royal Society 

 of London, for improving natural knowledge, admit you a Fellow thereof 



