Date of 

 Election. 



Election 

 Procedure. 



Renewal of 

 Candidature. 



Royal 

 Family. 



Special 

 Elections. 



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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 Candi- 

 dates, with space for such alterations as any Fellow may determine to make in 

 pursuance of Statute IX of this Chapter. 



VIII. The election of Ordinary Fellows not included in the privileged 

 classes referred to in Statutes XII and XIII of this Chapter, shall take place 

 on the first Thursday of May ; unless the Council shall alter the day of Election 

 to any other day in the month of May, in which case due notice of such altera- 

 tion shall be given to every Ordinary Fellow. 



IX. 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 VII 

 of this Chapter, 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 V of this Chapter. 



X. 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 the names of the Candidates who shall have been duly 

 elected in compliance with the Charters, and the President shall announce those 

 names from the Chair. 



XI. Any Candidate whose name shall have been printed in a previous list 

 of Candidates, but who shall not have been elected, shall, if his proposers, or 

 any one of them, so request in writing, before the 31st December immediately 

 preceding an election, be a Candidate at such election ; his name shall be placed 

 in alphabetical order with those of the new Candidates to be announced in 

 January following, and his certificate shall be suspended along with those of 

 the new Candidates. Provided always that the same certificate shall not be 

 valid for more than five years from the date thereof. Any additional qualifi- 

 cations of a Candidate may be set forth in a supplementary certificate to be 

 signed by not fewer than six Fellows. 



XII. Any one of His Majesty's subjects who is a Prince of the Blood Royal 

 may be proposed at one of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society by any Fellow, 

 and may be put to the vote for Election on the same day, provided public 

 notice of such proposition shall have been given by the proposer at the pre- 

 ceding Meeting of the Society. 



XIII. In cases in which the Council is of opinion that, in the interests of the 

 advancement of Natural Knowledge, it is desirable that persons be elected 

 Fellows of the Society otherwise than as provided by Statutes III to XII of 

 this Chapter, they may, once in every two years, recommend to the Society for 

 election not more than two persons, who, in their opinion, either have rendered 

 conspicuous service to the cause of science, or are such that their election would 



