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least by three Fellows on the Home List", are directed to be suspended 

 from the 30th November until the weekly Meeting on, or next after, the 

 17 30th May. Some years afterwards, however (March 8, 

 1787), this part of Sec. 8 was repealed, and a new Sec. 9 

 added which provides a somewhat complex mode of procedure in the 

 election, under the title of " Foreign Members,"* 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 Anniver- 

 sary. At a meeting immediately before the following Easter a selec- 

 tion of candidates is to be made, and the candidates so selected are to- 

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

 regulations 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. 



The Officers of the Society, the Clerk, Librarian, cj'c. 



No changes are made in the Statutes of 1776 for the election of 

 Council and Officers ; but to meet the changes in the contributions there 

 are changes in the regulations for the Treasurer. There are also 

 changes in the duties of the Secretaries, 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. 

 A I7io When in. 1710 the Society moved to Crane Court, the office 



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

 made House-Keeper. As the Library and Repository were 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 regula- 

 tions for these offices other than that of the Clerk, the Statutes con- 

 cerning whom remain exactly the same as in 1663 ; and in spite of the 

 A iwfi 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 

 An 1823 a ^ a l a ^ er P ei> id (1823) the office of Clerk was abolished, 



and that of Assistant Secretary instituted. 



* Foreign Member as distinguished from Ftdloir. In the edition of 1776 and 

 thenceforward the terru Member, as applied to an ordinary Fellow, is never used. 



