STATUTES OF m: i ;; 



XV. The Election, the payments made previous to admission, and the 

 admission of every person into the Society, with the time thereof, shall I* 

 recorded in the Journal-book. 



XVI. No person shall be deemed a Fellow of the Society until he has made 

 the payments required by the Statutes: nor shall he be entitled to vo: 

 any election or Meeting of the Society until he shall have been admitted in 

 the manner and form above specified. 



XVII. Persons may be elected into the Society, under the title of Foreign 

 Members, who are neither natives nor inhabitants of Her Majesty "sdomii 

 and shall be exempted from certain obligations which the ordinary Felloe 

 enjoined by the Statutes to perform ; they shall be selected from among men 

 of the greatest eminence for their scientific discoveries and attainments. 



XVIII. The Council shall from time to time, as they shall see fit, put in 

 nomination persons for election as Foreign Members, not exceeding, with those 

 already elected, the number of fifty. 



XIX. Notice of such nomination shall be immediately forwarded, in writing, 

 to each Member of the Council ; and the opinion of the Council respecting 

 the eligibility of any Candidate, as Foreign Member, shall be taken by 

 ballot at a subsequent Meeting of the Council, which Meeting shall not be 

 held within less than one month after the first nomination of the Candidate ; 

 when, if two-thirds of the Members of the Council present be in favour of the 

 nomination, the Candidate shall be proposed at the next ordinary Meeting of 

 the Society, and shall be put to the vote at the following ordinary Meeting. 



CHAP. II Of the Obligation to be subscribed. 



EVERY person elected a Fellow of the Society shall, before his admission, 

 subscribe the Obligation in the following words : 



We who have hereunto subscribed, do liereby promise each for himself, that 

 he will endeavour to promote the good of the Royal Society of London, for 

 improving natural knowledge, and to puisue the ends for which the same ica.\ 

 founded , that we will be present at the Meetings of the Society, as often as 

 conveniently we can, especially at the Anniversary Elections, and upon extra- 

 ordinary occasions ; and that we will observe the Statutes and Orders of the 

 said Society. Provided, that whensoever any of us shall signify to the President 

 under his hand, that he desireth to withdraw from the Society, he shall be free 

 from this Obligation for the future. 



And if any person elected shall refuse to subscribe the said Obligation, the 

 election of that person shall be void. 



CHAP. Ill Of the Payments to be made by tJie FcUows to the Society. 



I. EVERY person elected a Fellow of the Society shall, before he is admitted, 

 pay the sum of ten pounds for Admission-money. And if any such person shall 

 refuse or fail to pay the said sum, he shall not be admitted, and his election 



