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be of signal benefit to the Society. The persons so recommended shall be 

 selected by the Council by ballot, in accordance with the procedure established 

 by Standing Orders of Council. Provided always that no person shall be so 

 recommended unless he obtains two-thirds of the votes of the whole Council. 



At the Ordinary Meeting of the Society next following the Meeting of 

 Council at which such selection is made, the person or persons nominated shall 

 be proposed for election by means of a certificate prepared in accordance with 

 Statute III of this Chapter, no distinction, however, being made between per- 

 sonal and general knowledge, and the ground on which the Candidate has been 

 nominated by the Council, that is to say, whether as having rendered conspi- 

 cuous service to the cause of science, or as such that his election would be of 

 signal benefit to the Society, being alone stated as the qualification. Such 

 certificate, on being allowed by the Society, shall be suspended in some con- 

 venient place in the apartments of the Society until the day on which a ballot 

 is taken upon it. The date for the ballot, which shall not be earlier than the 

 third Ordinary Meeting after that at which the certificate is read, shall be 

 announced at the head of the certificate. 



XIV. Every person who is elected a Fellow shall appear for his admission Admission, 

 on or before the fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Society after the day of his 

 Election, or within such further time as shall, for some sufficient cause, be 

 granted by the Council ; otherwise his election shall be void. 



XV. 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-book, and be 

 introduced to the President, who, taking him by the hand, shall say these 

 words : / do, by the authority and in the name of the Royal Society of London, 



for Improving Natural Knowledge, admit you a Fellow thereof. 



XVI. The Election, the payments made previous to admission, and the Admission 

 Admission of every person into the Society, with the time thereof, shall be forded' 6 

 recorded in the Journal-book. 



XVII. No person shall be deemed a Fellow of the Society until he has made 

 the payments required by the Statutes : nor shall he be entitled to vote at any 

 Election or Meeting of the Society until he shall have been admitted in the 

 manner and form above specified. 



XVIII. Persons may be elected into the Society, under the title of Foreign Foreign 

 Members, who are neither natives nor inhabitants of His Majesty's dominions, 



and shall be exempted from the operation of Chapters II and III of these 

 Statutes ; they shall be selected from among men of the greatest eminence for 

 their scientific discoveries and attainments. 



XIX. The Council shall from time to time, as they shall see fit, put in Procedure 

 nomination persons for Election as Foreign Members, not exceeding, with fYore\^ 

 those already elected, the number of fifty. Members. 



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