xllV CHARTER. 



to extend its operations, and to give it a more permanent establish- 

 ment among the scientific institutions of onr kingdom, we have been 

 besought to grant to James Glashier, Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 the present President of the said Society, and to those who now are 

 or shall hereafter become members of the said Society, our Boyal 

 Charter of Incorporation for the purposes aforesaid : 



Now know ye that We, being desirous of encouraging a design 

 so laudable and salutary, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and 

 mere motion, have willed, granted, and declared, and do by these 

 presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will, grant and declare that 

 the said James Glaisher, and such other of our loving subjects as 

 now are members of the said Society, or shall from time to time be 

 elected Fellows thereof, according to such regulations or bye-laws as 

 shall be hereafter framed or enacted, and their successors shall for 

 ever hereafter be by virtue of these presents one body politic and 

 corporate, by the name of " The Microscopical Society of London " ; * 

 and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have 

 perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and authority 

 to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by 

 the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer 

 and be answered, unto and in every court of us, our heirs and suc- 

 cessors, and be for ever able and capable in the law to purchase, 

 receive, possess, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, any 

 goods and chattels whatsoever, and also to be able and capable in the 

 law (notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain) to take, purchase, 

 hold, and enjoy to them and their successors a hall or house, and any 

 such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever as may 

 be necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of the Society, 

 the yearly value of which, including the site of the said hall or house, 

 shall not exceed in the whole the sum of 1000/., computing the same 

 respectively at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof, and to 

 act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate as 

 effectually, to all intents and purposes, as any other of our liege sub- 

 jects, or any other body politic or corporate in our said kingdom, not 

 being under any disability, might do in their respective concerns. 



And we do hereby grant our special licence and authority unto all 

 and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate (otherwise 

 competent), to grant, sell, alien and convey in mortmain unto and to 

 the use of the said body politic and corporate and their successors any 

 messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments not exceeding such 

 annual value as aforesaid. 



And our will and pleasure is, and we further grant and declare, 



* On the 1st November, 1866, Mr. Secretary Walpole notified to the President that 

 Her Majesty had been graciously pleased " to command that the Society shall be 

 styled the Royal Microscopical Society." 



