VI. 



None but Ordinary Fellows shall bear any office in the Society, or 

 vote in the choice of Fellows or Office-bearers, or interfere in the patri- 

 monial interests of the Society. 



VII. 

 The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 



VIII. 



The Ordinary Fellows, upon producing an order from the Tkea- 

 STIRER, shall be entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of 

 the Society's Transactions which shall be published subsequent to their 

 admission. 



IX. 



No person shall be proposed as an Ordinary Fellow, without a re- 

 commendation subscribed by One Ordinary Fellow, to the purport be- 

 low.* This recommendation shall be delivered to the Secretary, and by 

 him laid before the Council, and shall afterwards be printed in the circu- 

 lars for three ordinary meetings of the Society, previous to the day of the 

 election, and shall lie upon the table during that time. 



X. 



Honorary Fellows shall not be subject to any Contribution. This 

 class shall consist of persons eminently distinguished for science or litera- 

 ture. Its number shall not exceed Fifty-six, of whom twenty may be 

 British subjects, and thirty-six may be subjects of foreign states. 



* " A. B., a gentleman well skilled in several branches of Science (or Polite Literature 

 " a* the case may be), being to my knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal 

 " Society of Edinburgh, I hereby recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely 

 " to prove an useful and valuable Member." 



This recommendation to be accompanied by a request of admission signed by the Can- 

 didate. 



