Membership and Privileges. 

 Any. Candidate for admission as a Fellow must be proposed on a 

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

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

 racter or writings. 



Fellows, on their election, pay an Admission Fee 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 futur-e 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 receive, gratis, all Volumes, or Parts 

 of Volumes, of the Transactions and Journals, 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. The 

 Journals are sent, post-free, t'o Fellows resident in Britain or to 

 agents in Britain of Fellows residing abroad. >Such of the Trans- 

 actions as Fellows may be entitled to, or be desirous to purchase, 

 can be had on application at the Society'^ Apartments or for- 

 warded by a written Order (carriage being paid by the Fellow) ; 

 but none of the Society's publications can be delivered 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. 



Library. — This 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 Beading-room, is open daily 

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



Publications. 



Journals. — The first VIII. volumes contain papers both on 

 Botany and Zoology, and each vol. is divided into Four parts at 

 os. each, or 12s. per vol. From Vol. IX. the Zoological and Bo- 

 tanical sections have been published separately, and each con- 

 sists of Eight numbers at 2s., or 16s. per vol. From Vol. XIV. 

 Zoology, and Vol. XVII. Botany, each separate number is 3s. 

 to the'public, and 2s. 3d. to Fellows ; or the volume, 24s. to the 

 public, and 18s. to Fellows. 



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

 ing both 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 General Index to the whole, 

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

 volumes, may obtain those from the 1st to the 20th at £l 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 

 6s. to Fellows; to Vols. 26-30, 4s. to the public, and 3s. to Fellows. 



The Second Series o£ the*Transactions is divided into Zoological 

 and Botanical sections, one vol. of each being already published. 



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

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

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

 ;vlo3t of these (from Vol. 26 onwards) can still be had at the Society's Booms. 



