UKCOKD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



\ 1. That tin- meetings of the Society may not be wasted by unprofitable 

 debates, contrary to tin- intent and meaning of the fifth section of this chapter, 



iMicd. and ordained, that every motion or question, 



pn>|xed to be ballotted for by the Society, shall be fairly transcribed on 



,11; >igned by six or more Fellows of the Society, it shall be by 



i to one of the Secretaries at a meeting of the Society; and shall 



thereupon he read immediately alter the declaration of the Presents on the 



table; and after being marked by the Secretary with the date of the day 



dclixered, it shall be fixed up in the common Meeting-room of the 



the next ordinary Meeting; and on the Meeting next following the 



sin >c. it >hall be put to the Ballot, unless those who have signed it agree to 



withdraw it. 



Hut nothing contained in this Statute is to be construed to extend to 

 matter> relathe to elections, or the ordinary business of the Society. 1 



The motion^ or questions proposed to be 'ballotted for 1 must therefore 

 ha\e had reference to matters of science. 



() Publications., Records, and Library. 



In Cap. XII, of the Statutes as amended in 1776, the quorum of the 

 Committee of Papers i.s raised from five to seven, and the part of the Statute 

 providing that there should be no entry of rejected papers is omitted. 



In Cap. XIII, ' Of the Manner of Publication of the Papers laid before the 



he word * Librarian' is substituted for that of 'Clerk 1 ; also the 



|K-riod during which surplus copies not required by Fellows must remain 



before they are disposed of by the Council, is extended from one year (as in 



i to five \. 



In the Statute- of 1776, Cap. XIV, 'Of the Books and Papers of the 

 ty, 1 differs sonn-what from the corresponding Cap. XVI, < Of the Books 

 of th iii the Statutes of 1752. The copy of Statutes, the List of 



Ifc -n -factors, and the Register of Fellows is omitted from the Charter Book. 1 

 The Statute concerning the Register Books, containing accounts of observa- 

 tion-, experiments, \c., and the Statute concerning the Book of Letters, are 

 omitted 



A new Statute (Stat. v) was introduced in 1776, to the effect that the 

 paper read at the Society shall be considered as the 



property of the Society; and another (Stat. vi) provides for the care of the 



And, lastly, ; , new Statute (Stat. vii) introduces, for the first 



">t<> Hi. regulations concerning the use of the Library. The 



..irter Hook ne\n- tliil contain, as provided hy the Statute, the Register of 



1 only their -.i-Tnatim-.. The Society |n>si'ss<>v, however, a volume now called 



'lii'l, contain^ the names, with dates of election, of all the Fellows from 



'""" <lf " "P t<> tlie year 1 7- r ). Since that date the Register is 



volume. 





