■■■'■''■ , , Membership akd Privileges. 



Any Candidate for admission as a Eellow must be proposed on a 

 written Certificate, to be signed by three or more Pellows, from 

 their personal acquaintance with him, or knowledge of his charac- 

 ter or writings. 



Fellows, on their election, pay an Admission Pee of £6, and an 

 annual Contribution of £3, which latter may be compounded for at 

 any time by one payment of £45 in lieu of all future contributions. 



Fellows residing abroad, and not compounding, are required to 

 provide such security for the payment of their annual Contribu- 

 tions as shall be satisfactory to the Council. 



The Fellows are entitled to yqcqivq, gratis, all Volumes, or Parts 

 of Volumes, of the Transactions and Journal, that may be pub- 

 lished after they shall have paid the Admission Fee ; and they 

 may be supplied with any of the Society's publications at a reduc- 

 tion of 25 per cent, under the common selling prices. They are 

 requested to apply at the Apartments of the Society, toMr.Kippist 

 Librarian, for such volumes as they may be entitled to, or be desi- 

 rous to purchase ; but no volume can be A.e\\\eTedi gratis to a Fellow 

 whose yearly Contributions are in arrear, nor can any be delivered 

 unless applied for within five years from the time of publication. 



The Library is open to the Fellows and their friends daily, be- 

 tween«the hours of 10 and 4, and on Meeting-days at 7 p.m. With 

 certain restrictions. Fellows are allowed to borrow Books. The 

 Council-room, which is also used as a Eeading-room, is open daily 

 from 10 A.M. till 6 p.m., except on Saturdays, when till 4 p.m. only. 

 Public ATioKS. 



Journals. — From Vol. IX. the Zoological and Bot&nical por- 

 tions of the Journal have been published separately, and each 

 consists of Eight numbers. From Vol. XIV. Zoology, and 

 Vol. XVII. Botany, the price of each separate number will be 

 3s. to the public, and 2s. 3i. to Fellows ; and that of each volume, 

 when complete, 24s. to the public, and 18s. to Fellows. 



Transactions. — The First Series of the Transactions, contain- 

 ing Botanical and Zoological contributions, is now completed in 

 30 Vols. Sets of the first twenty volumes will be supplied 

 to the Fellows at the reduced price of £20; or of the first 

 twenty-five volumes, with the G-eneral Index to the whole, 

 for £30. Any Fellow purchasing, at one time, ten or more 

 volumes, may obtain tbose from the 1st to the 20th at £1 per 

 volume, from the 21st to the 25th at £2 per volume ; and single 

 volumes, or parts, to complete sets, may be obtained at the original 

 prices. The price of the Index to Vols. 1-25 is 8s. to the public, and 

 (is. to Fellows ; to Vols. 26-30, 4s. to the public, and 3s. to Fellows. 



The Second Series of the Transactions is divided into Zoological 

 and Botanical sections. 



Vol. I. Zoology (2nd Ser.), containing eight Parts, and illus- 

 trated by seventy-three plain and coloured Plates is now pub- 

 lished ; the last Part (8th), with Index and Contents, can there- 

 fore now be had by Fellows at the Society's rooms. 



Vol.1. Botany (2nd Ser.) : of this six Parts have already appeared, 

 and material for the conclusion of the volume is now in hand ; 

 and issue may be expected about the beginning of the new Session. 



To facilitate scientific workers in obtaining any single paper published in the 

 Transactions without necessarily purchasing the entire Part in which it is con- 

 tained, a few copies of each memoir have been printed off separately for sale. 

 Most of these (from Vol. 26 onwards) can still be had at the Society's Eooms. 



