land, and wishing to continue a Fellow of the Society, it shall be in the power of 

 the Council to determine on what terms, in the circumstances of each case, the 

 privilege of remaining a Fellow of the Society shall be continued to such Fellow 

 while out of Scotland. 



Defaulters. 



Members failing to pay their contributions for three successive years (due 

 application having been made to them by the Treasurer) shall be reported to the 

 Council, and, if they see fit, shall be declared from that period to be no longer 

 Fellows, and the legal means for recovering such arrears shall be employed. 



Privileges of 

 Ordinary Fellows. 



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 patrimonial interests of the 

 Society. 



Numbers Un- 

 limited. 



VII. 



The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 



VIII. 



Fellows entitled T;he Ordinary Fellows, upon producing an order from the Treasurer, shall be 



entitled to receive from the Publisher, gratis, the Parts of the Society's Trans- 

 actions which shall be published subsequent to their admission. 



Mode of Recom- 

 mending Ordinary 

 Fellows. 



IX. 



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

 tion subscribed by One Ordinary Fellow, to the purport below.* This recom- 

 mendation shall be delivered to the Secretary, and by him laid before the Council, 

 and shall afterwards be printed in the circulars for three Ordinary Meetings of 

 the Society, previous to the day of the election, and shall lie upon the table during 

 that time. 



Honorary Fellows, 

 British and 

 Foreign. 



Honorary Fellows shall not be subject to any contribution. This class shall 



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

 may be), being to my knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, I hereby recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely to prove a useful and 

 valuable Member." 



This recommendation to be accompanied by a request of admission signed by the Candidate. 



