166 KFAORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



i ode of procedure in the election, under the title of 



V of prisons 'who are neither natives nor inhabitants of his 



dominions'. The number is limited to 100. Certificates signed 



Iowa are to In- presented at some meeting between Easter 



and tlu- Annivers.in. At a meeting immediately before the following Easter 



vtion of candidate* is to be made, and the candidates so selected are to 



llotcd for at the next meeting immediately after Easter. These regu- 



, not. however, to apply to Sovereign Foreign Princes or their sons, 



re n -sident in Great Britain as may desire to become Fellows 



in the usual v. 



(//) The Officers of the Society, the Clerk, Librarian, <$r. 



No alterations arc made in the Statutes of 1776 for the election of Council 



and Officers; but to meet the changes in the contributions there the regu- 



Dfl for the Treasurer are modified. The duties of the Secretaries also 



undergo modification, chiefly in reference to the Clerk and to the publication 



of tlu- * Philosophical Transactions'. 



Cap. X provides regulations for the qualifications, mode of election, duties 

 and remunerations of the Clerk, the Librarian, the Keeper of the Repository, 

 and the I louse-Keeper. 



The Statutes of 1663 contain regulations for the Clerk, and prescribe 



clerkly duties for him; and the Society had at first neither House-Keeper 



nor Librarian. When in 1710 the Society moved to Crane Court, the 



of House- Keeper was established ; but the Clerk was then made House- 



A- the Librarv and Repository increased the offices of Librarian and 



i the Repository were established ; but both these offices were held by 



the Clerk, under supervision, during a certain period at all events, of Fellows 



chosen for that duty under the title of ' Inspectors '. But the Statutes of 1752 



in no regulations for these offices other than that of the Clerk, the 



onceniing whom remain exactly the same as in 1663; and in spite 



of the special regulations present in the edition of 1776, it appears that the 



i v had never more than one officer to carry out these several duties, and 



Hut he was called M he Clerk', until at a later period (1823) the office of 



Clerk was abolished, and that of Assistant Secretary instituted. 



(V) The Ordinary Meetings of the Society. 



In the edition of 1 77f>, Cap. XI, Of the Ordinary Meetings of the Society/ 



1 provides that the ordinary Meetings shall be held on 'Thursdays, 



inin^ at r p.m., and continue about an hour, as usual, at the discretion of 



- -ni \ This Statute was passed in 17(><). 

 ' n l st W>:j (IV, Stat. i) provided that the ordinary meetings 



ii-tiiiiriiisluMl from r,-ll,,w. Iii the edition of 1776 and thence- 

 forward the term MnnlMT. a> allied to ati ordinary Fellow, is never used. 



