106 Record of the Royal Society. 



or Ambassador" are replaced by the words "Foreign Sovereign 

 Prince, or the son of a Sovereign Prince, or an Ambassador to the 

 Court of Great Britain." 



Composition Fee. 



In the Edition of 1752, as stated above, no mention is made of any 



"bond" or "composition fee," but in the next year, 1753 (June 7), 



the Statute, Cap. YI, Sec. 8, concerning Foreigners and 



persons residing more than 40 miles from London, was 



repealed, and the following substituted : 



"That no one of his Majesties subjects, or any other person 

 residing in his Majesties Dominions, who shall be elected a Fellow 

 of the Society, shall be deemed an actual Fellow thereof, nor shall 

 the name of any such person be Registered in the Journal Book, or 

 printed in the List of Fellows of the Society, until such Person shall 

 have paid his admission Fee, and given the usual Bond, or paid the 

 Sum of Twenty-one pounds for the use of the Society in lieu of con- 

 tributions : But that upon such payment or giving Bond as aforesaid, 

 it shall be lawful for the Society to give leave for the name of any 

 such person so elected as aforesaid to be entered in the Journal Book, 

 and printed in the list of Fellows of the Society: Provided always 

 that no such person shall have liberty to Yote at any Election or 

 Meeting of the Society, before he shall be duly admitted a Fellow 

 thereof pursuant to the former Statute." 



This is the first time that, the Statutes contain any reference to a 

 composition fee. 



In 1766 (December 11) a Statute was passed increasing 



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the composition fee from twenty to twenty-six guineas ; 

 and the Statute of 1753 just quoted re-appears, with some slight 

 changes, in the Edition of 1776 as Sec. 8 of Cap. I, the " sum of 

 twenty-one pounds " being altered into " the sum appointed," and 

 this the Chapter on payments by Fellows states to be twenty-six 

 guineas. 



Foreign Members. 



The Statutes of 1776 contain, what the Statutes of 1752 and 1G63 

 do not, special regulations for Fellows " residing in foreign parts and 

 not subjects of the British Dominions." 



So earlv as 1664 a Statute was passed providing that 

 Ann. 1664. . . 



persons residing in .borraigne parts, who arc elected 



Ann. 1716. Fellows, should not pay fees; in 1716 a reference 

 Ann. 1737. occurs to Foreigners who are Fellows ; and in 1737 a 

 resolution of Council (which did not become a Statute) proposed 

 that Foreigners resident in London might be on the Home List if 

 they paid contributions. It would appear, therefore, in spite of no 



