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a somewhat complex mode of procedure in the election, under the title of 

 ' Foreign Members V of persons 'who are neither natives nor inhabitants of his 

 Majesty's dominions'. The number is limited to 100. Certificates signed 

 by six or more Fellows are to be presented at some meeting between Easter 

 and the Anniversary. At a meeting immediately before the following Easter 

 a selection of candidates is to be made, and the candidates so selected are to 

 be balloted for at the next meeting immediately after Easter. These regu- 

 lations are not, however, to apply to Sovereign Foreign Princes or their sons, 

 or to such Foreigners resident in Great Britain as may desire to become Fellows 

 in the usual way. 



(d) The Officers of the Society, the Clerk, Librarian, $c. 



No alterations are made in the Statutes of 1776 for the election of Council 

 and Officers ; but to meet the changes in the contributions there the regu- 

 lations for the Treasurer are modified. The duties of the Secretaries also 

 undergo modification, chiefly in reference to the Clerk and to the publication 

 of the ' Philosophical Transactions '. 



Cap. X provides regulations for the qualifications, mode of election, duties 

 and remunerations of the Clerk, the Librarian, the Keeper of the Repository, 

 and the House-Keeper. 



The Statutes of 1663 contain regulations for the Clerk, and prescribe 

 clerkly duties for him ; and the Society had at first neither House-Keeper 

 nor Librarian. When in 1710 the Society moved to Crane- Court, the 

 office of House- Keeper was established ; but the Clerk was then made House- 

 Keeper. As the Library and Repository increased the offices of Librarian and 

 Keeper of the Repository were established ; but both these offices were held by 

 the Clerk, under supervision, during a certain period at all events, of Fellows 

 chosen for that duty under the title of ' Inspectors '. But the Statutes of 1752 

 contain no regulations for these offices other than that of the Clerk, the 

 Statutes concerning whom remain exactly the same as in 1663 ; and in spite 

 of the special regulations present in the edition of 1776, it appears that the 

 Society had never more than one officer to carry out these several duties, and 

 that he .was called 'the Clerk', until at a later period (1823) the office of 

 Clerk was abolished, and that of Assistant Secretary instituted. 



(e) The Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 



^ In the edition of 1776, Cap. XI, Of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society,' 

 Sec. 1 provides that the ordinary Meetings shall be held on 'Thursdays, 

 beginning at 6 p.m., and continue about an hour, as usual, at the discretion of 

 the President '. This Statute was passed in 1769. 



The Statutes of 1663 (IV, Stat. i) provided that the ordinary meetings 



1 Foreign Member as distinguished from Fellow. In the edition of 1776 and thence- 

 nvard the term Member, as applied to an ordinary Fellow, is never used. 



