Notice of 

 Election of 

 Council and 

 Officers. 



Summons to 

 Anniversary 

 Meeting. 



Nomination 

 of the 



Council and 

 Officers. 



Election. 



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that case, at some Ordinary Meeting of the Society, announce from the Chair 

 such determination of the Council ; and at the Ordinary Meeting next after 

 that at which the said announcement has been made, the Society shall proceed 

 to determine the question; and on its appearing that two-thirds of the 

 Members present have voted for the ejection of the said Fellow, the President 

 shall proceed to cancel his name in the Register, and at the same time 

 pronounce him ejected in these words: 



I do, by the authority and in the name of the Royal Society of London, 

 for Improving Natural Knowledge, declare A.B. to be now ejected, and 

 no longer a Fellow thereof. 



And the ejection of every such person shall be then recorded in the Journal- 

 book of the Society ; and his name, as ejected, be also read at the next 

 Anniversary Meeting for Elections. 



CHAP. VI Of the Election of the Council and Officers. 



I. AT the two Ordinary Meetings of the Society next preceding the day of 

 the Anniversary Election, the President shall give notice of the said Election ; 

 and declare how much it imports the good of the Society, that such persons 

 may be chosen into the Council, as are most likely to attend the Meetings and 

 business of the Council, out of whom there may be made the best choice of a 

 President and other Officers. 



II. Every Fellow of the Society resident in the United Kingdom shall have 

 notice of the Anniversary Meeting for electing the Council and Officers for the 

 year ensuing, by particular summons, which summons shall be sent to the 

 address of such Fellow, a week at the least before the day of Meeting, and 

 shall t>e to this effect : 



These are to give notice, that on the day of 



the Council and Officers of the ROYAL SOCIETY are to be elected for the 

 year ensuing ; at which Election your presence is expected, at of the 

 clock in the precisely. 



III. The Council for the ensuing year, out of which shall be chosen the 

 President, Treasurer, Principal Secretaries, and Foreign Secretary, shall consist 

 of eleven Members of the existing Council, and of ten Fellows who are not 

 Members of the existing Council. 



IV. The President and Council shall, previous to the Anniversary Meeting, 

 nominate, by ballot, eleven Members of the existing Council, and also ten 

 Fellows, not Members of the existing Council, whom they recommend to the 

 Society for Election into the Council for the ensuing year. The President 

 and Council shall also, in like manner, nominate by ballot, out of the proposed 

 Council, the persons whom they recommend to the Society for election to the 

 offices of President, Treasurer, Principal Secretaries, and Foreign Secretary for 

 the ensuing year. 



V. At the Ordinary Meeting of the Society preceding the Anniversary 



