IK; HKrOKI) OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



I circular letter shall be forthwith sent to every Fellow, naming the 

 Election, and enclosing a printed list of the selected Candi- 

 ,,r >uch alterations as any Fellow may determine to make in 

 -tatute IX of this Chapter. 



Date of Mil. The election of Ordinary Fellows not included in the privileged 



! to in Statutes XII and XIII of this Chapter, shall take place 

 Uirtdayof May : unless the Council shall alter the day of Election 

 her day in the month of May, in which case due notice of such altera- 

 tion >hall be given to every Ordinary Fellow. 



IX. On the day of Election two Scrutators shall be nominated by the 

 , nt, with the approbation of the Society, to assist the Secretaries in 



iining tin- li>ts; and each Fellow present and voting, shall deliver to one 

 i.f the Secretaries or Scrutators one of the printed lists mentioned in Statute VII 

 of this Chapter, having erased the name of any Candidate or Candidates for 

 whom lie does not vote, and, if he shall have thought fit, having substituted 



:ded the name of any other Candidate or Candidates contained in the 

 printed list sent in pursuance of Statute V of this Chapter. 



X. One of the Secretaries shall take down the names of the Fellows who 

 . and the Scrutators, after examining the lists with the Secretaries, shall 



ivport to the President the names of the Candidates who shall have been duly 

 elected in compliance with the Charters, and the President shall announce those 

 name> from the Chair. 



XI. Any Candidate whose name shall have been printed in a previous list 



, but who shall not have been elected, shall, if his proposers, or 



one of them, so request in writing, before the 31st December immediately 



ding an election, l)e a Candidate at such election ; his name shall be placed 



in alphabetical order with those of the new Candidates to be announced in 



i.-irv following, and his certificate shall be suspended along with those of 



the new Candidates. Provided always that the same certificate shall not be 



\alid for more than five years from the date thereof. Any additional qualifi- 



; a Candidate may be set forth in a supplementary certificate to be 



ned by not fewer than six Fellows. 



XII. Any one of His Majesty's subjects who is a Prince of the Blood Royal 

 In- proposed at one of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society by any Fellow, 

 may be put to the vote for Election on the same day, provided public 



Mich proposition shall have been given by the proposer at the pre- 

 \I'--ling of the Society. 



' XML I" c.'^es in which the Council is of opinion that, in the interests of the 



Natural Knowledge, it is desirable that persons be elected 

 f the Society otherwise than as provided by Statutes III to XII of 

 tl " ' Miey may, once in every two years, recommend to the Society for 



'lotion ' Mian two persons, who, in their opinion, either have rendered 



pinions service to the < ( ience, or are such that their election would 



