nu RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



(n) The Election of Fellows. 



In the Statutes as amended in 1776 the regulations for the election of 



I-'ellowx remain on the whole unchanged, save that it is precisely stated that 



the competent number' for making an election, a majority of 



wary, and in the Statute relating to what came to be 



called the privileged class ', the words 'Foreign Prince or Ambassador' are 

 replaced by tlu- words 'Foreign Sovereign Prince, or the son of , Sovereign 

 Prince, or an Ambassador to the Court of Great Britain \ 



(b) Composition Fee. 



In the Edition of 17.") 2, as stated above, no mention is made of any 'bond 1 



Miiposition fee ', but in the next year, 1753 (June 7), the Statute, Cap. VI, 



viii. concerning Foreigners and persons residing more than 40 miles from 



London, was repealed, and the following enactment was substituted : 



That no one of his Majesties subjects, or any other person residing in his 



Dominions, who shall be elected a Fellow of the Society, shall be 



deemed an actual Fellow thereof, nor shall the name of any such person be 



1 in the Journal Book, or printed in the List of Fellows of the Society, 



until such Person shall have paid his admission Fee, and given the usual Bond, 



or paid the Sum of Twenty-one pounds for the use of the Society in lieu of 



contributions : But that upon such payment or giving Bond as aforesaid, it 



shall be lawful tor the Society to give leave for the name of any such person 



"o el : ton -said to be entered in the Journal Book, and printed in the 



list of Fellows of the Society : Provided always that no such person shall have 



lilwrty to Vote at any Election or Meeting of the Society, before he shall be 



duly admitted a Fellow thereof pursuant to the former Statute.' 



This is the first time that the Statutes contain any reference to a com - 

 position : 



In 17nT> (December 11) a Statute was passed increasing the composition fee 

 from twenty to twenty-six guineas ; and the Statute of 1753 just quoted re- 

 appear-, with some slight, changes, in the Edition of 1776 as Stat. viii of Cap. I, 

 the 4 Mini of twenty-one pounds" being altered into 'the sum appointed', and 

 be Chapter on payments by Fellows states to be twenty-six guineas. 



(<) Foreign Members. 



Tin Statute of 17 7(i contain, what the Statutes of 1752 and 1663 do not, 

 gulatumi for Fellows ' residing i n foreign parts and not subjects of 

 llTticb Dominion- *. 



i Statute \\as passed providing that persons 'residing in 



leeted Fellows, should not pay fees; in 1716 a 



Den \\lrn are Fellows; and in 1737 a resolution 



mcil (which did not become a Statute) proposed that Foreigners resident 



