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appointed by Council at their pleasure, and was styled Assistant to 

 the Secretaries. The new Secretary for Foreign Correspondence was 

 to rank with the two Principal Secretaries. 



Assistant The office of Clerk is abolished and that of Assistant 

 Secretary. Secretary created. The old Statute relating to the Clerk 

 is, in consequence, largely modified. The Assistant Secretary is made 

 Librarian and Housekeeper, but all mention of the Keeper of the 

 Repository disappears from the Statutes. The facilities for using the 

 Library are increased. The annual contribution is raised from " a 

 Contributions shilling a week," or thirteen shillings a quarter, to 

 raised. " one pound a quarter," the admission fee from five 



guineas to ten pounds, and the composition fee from twenty-six 

 guineas to forty pounds. 



The Statutes of 1831. 



The edition of 1831* contains a few changes which are of no great 

 moment, and chiefly refer to payments (Cap. Ill), the "bond " being 

 omitted. 



In 1831 the Statutes relating to the Assistant Secretary were 

 amended, the separate regulations for Librarian and Housekeeper 

 being omitted. 



In 1835, the then existing Statute, Cap. I, Sec. 5 (enacted in 

 1831), that "no election for Fellows, or for Foreign Members, shall 

 take place excepting on the first ordinary meetings of the Society in 

 December, February, April, and June " was repealed. 



The Statutes of 1840. 



In the next edition, 1840, the most notable change concerns the 

 election of officers and Council. These are to be put in nomination 

 by the President and Council, according to the plan at present in use. 

 A new Chapter, " Of Special General Meetings of the Society " is 

 added. The composition fee is raised to 60 in the case of Fellows 

 elected after December 11, 1834, except such as have contributed 

 papers to the ' Philosophical Transactions ;' the Statutes concerning 

 publications are thrown into one chapter ; and some slight changes 

 are made in the Statutes concerning the Treasurer and Secretaries. 

 Cap. XI, " Of the ordinary Meetings of the Society," provides for 

 the recess from the third Thursday in June to the third Thursday in 

 November, and, as mentioned above, for the omission of meetings on 

 certain days. 



With the important exception of those relating to the election of 



* One form of this Edition is simply a reprint of that of 1823, with an 

 Appendix of amended Statutes. 



