LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 857 



X. 



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



. -i , j, ,. T , British and 



consist of persons eminently distinguished for science or literature. Its number Foreign. 

 shall not exceed Fifty-six, of whom Twenty may be British subjects, and Thirty- 

 six may be subjects of foreign states. 



XI. 



Personages of Royal Blood may be elected Honorary Fellows, without regard Royal Personages. 

 to the limitation of numbers specified in Law X. 



XII. 



Honorary Fellows may be proposed by the Council, or by a recommenda- Recommendation 

 tion (in the form given below""") subscribed by three Ordinary Fellows ; and in Fellows. 

 case the Council shall decline to bring this recommendation before the Society, 

 it shall be competent for the proposers to bring the same before a General 

 Meeting. The election shall be by ballot, after the proposal has been commu- Mode of Election. 

 nicated viva voce from the Chair at one meeting, and printed in the circulars 

 for two ordinary meetings of the Society, previous to the clay of election. 



XIII. 



The election of Ordinary Fellows shall only take place at the first Ordinary Election of ordi- 

 Meeting of each month during the Session. The election shall be by ballot, 

 and shall be determined by a majority of at least two-thirds of the votes, pro- 

 vided Twenty-four Fellows be present and vote. 



XIV. 



The Ordinary Meetings shall be held on the first and third Mondays of Ordinary Meet- 

 every month from December to July inclusively ; excepting when there are 

 five Mondays in January, in which case the Meetings for that month shall 

 be held on its third and fifth Mondays. Eegular Minutes shall be kept of 

 the proceedings, and the Secretaries shall do the duty alternately, or 

 according to such agreement as they may find it convenient to make. 



* We hereby recommend 



for the distinction of being made an Honorary Fellow of this Society, declaring that each of us from 

 our own knowledge of his services to {Literature or Science, as the case may be) believe him to be 

 worthy of that honour. 



(To be signed by three Ordinary Fellows.) 



To tho President and Council of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh. 



