300 RKCOKD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



:ting tlu- Office of Lord High Admiral, touching the said Observatory, 

 and its lihrarv and instruments, the observations and calculations as shall, in 

 \our judgement, be conducive to the credit of Our Observatory and to the 

 promotion of astronomical and natural science. 



And Our further will and pleasure is. that Our Astronomer and Keeper of 



iid Observatorv for the time being do deliver to you every three months, 



jiiiivd bv vou in writing, under the hand of your Chairman, a true and 



np\ of all tin- observations he shall have made and of all the calculations 



relating to those or other observations made at Our said Observatory. And 



that such number of copies of the said observations and calculations be printed 



a- Our Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of 



I .ord 1 1 igh Admiral, shall consider expedient. And when Our said Astronomer 



and the Councils of the said Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society 



shall have been supplied with as many copies as they may desire to distribute 



for the benefit of science, the remainder shall be sold at such price as Our Lord 



High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High 



Admiral, shall fix. 



And Our further will and pleasure is, that you do meet annually at Our 

 siid Observatory on the first Saturday in the month of June, or, should 

 circumstances render that day inconvenient, on such other day, at that period 

 of the year, as the President of the Royal Society (being a Visitor) may decide, 

 and also at such other times as may seem expedient to the President of the 

 1 Societ \ (being a Visitor), or if not, to Our Lord High Admiral, or the 

 Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral. And that at 

 Mich meet ing the President of the Royal Society (being a Visitor) shall take 

 the chair, or in his absence the President of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 (being a Visitor), or in the absence of both the said Presidents, that the 

 memben present shall elect a chairman for the time being among themselves. 

 And that at everv such meeting seven members shall form a quorum. 



And Our further will and pleasure is, that you be empowered to appoint 



vtary, who shall perform the usual duties of Secretary at your meetings, 



hall take charge of your books and papers, and shall receive for his 



trouble such stipend as to Our Lord High Admiral, or to the Commissioners 



\ ecut ing the Office of Lord High Admiral, shall seem fit. And also that 



Our said Lord High Admiral or Commissioners shall be empowered to pay 



Mich Minis aa they may think proper, in the nature of reimbursement of 



to Mich of the visitors as attend. 



1 Our further will and pleasure is, that if any one of Our Visitors (not 



h by virtue of his office) shall not attend the Annual Meeting for 



without assigning such an excuse for his absence as shall 



be deemed sufficient by a majority of Our Visitors present at a meeting, he 



shall cease to be a Visitor; and as often as a vacancy shall occur in the lists of 



Visitors selected from the Fellows of the Royal Society or of the Royal 



