154 KKCOU1) OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



\. that they may he in readiness to be produced at any meetings of the 

 the case may require, or as shall be ordered by the 

 Council or President. 



\ II. Ho shall also, subject as aforesaid, have the charge and custody of the 

 pajHi-s and writings relating to the business of the Society, and shall not suffer 

 tl, t . m to ! d from the House of the Society without the sanction of the 



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CHAP. Ull Of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 



I. Tin Se.ssion of the Society shall commence on the first Thursday in 

 :nber. and end on the last Thursday in June. 



II. Tho Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be. on Thursdays weekly 

 ;>ting Christmas, Passion, and Easter weeks, and such other weeks at 

 ^tmas and Master, in each year, as the Council may in the preceding year 

 mine) and shall begin at half-past Four o'clock in the Afternoon precisely. 



III. No stranger shall be permitted to be present during the Meeting, unless 

 Itv invitation of the President, or by his leave or order upon the recommenda- 

 tion of some Fellow. 



I \ . The business of the Society in their Ordinary Meetings shall be to order, 

 lake account, consider, and discourse of philosophical experiments and obser- 

 \atioi is ; to read, hear, and discourse upon letters, reports, and other papers 

 containing philosophical matters ; as also to view, and discourse upon, rarities 

 of nature and art : and thereupon to consider, what may be deduced from them, 

 or :m\ of them ; and how far they, or any of them, may be improved for use 

 or discovery. 1 



\ At the meetings of the Society, Lists of the Presents made from time to 



I inio to tin Society shall be laid on the Table, by one of the Secretaries, for 



the inspection of the Follows; and the thanks of the Society to the Donors 



shall he proposed from the Chair previously to the reading of the first Paper. 



retaries. shall give notice of any Candidate who stands proposed 



!'-ol ion into the Society at that Meeting; and the Secretaries shall read 



P i presented to the Society, in such manner as the President 



shall <lii< 



\ I. No letter, report, or other paper shall be read at any Ordinary Meeting 



mnnmicated by a Fellow or Foreign Member; and it shall be 



the duty of each IVllou or Foreign Member to satisfy himself that any letter, 



t. or other pajM-r which he may communicate, is suitable to be read 



\ II. The eonduet of the Ordinary Meetings shall be in accordance with the 

 :< term incd from time to time by the President and Council, 

 provided always that at the Ordinary Meetings nothing relating to Statutes 

 1 of the Society shall he brought forward or discussed. 



1 This i, tin- uunlinu- () f thr Statute- :H -rivon in the Statutes of 1663. 



