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Meeting, be elected Honorary Members, who shall enjoy all the 
privileges of membershi|). Nominees for Honorary Membership 
shall, before their names are- submitted by the Council to a 
General Meeting, obtain the votes of not less than three-quarters 
of those present in Council. The numbers of Honorary Members 
shall not be added to when the sum total of such members exceeds 
eight per cent, of the total paying members of the Society as on tlie 
last day of the preceding year. 
5. SUBSCRIBERS 
Botanical or Natural History Societies, Libraries, Museums, Botanical 
Gardens, and similar Institutions, which are unable to conform with the 
conditions of Rule 4(d), shall be entitled to become Subscribers at the 
rate of subscription applicable to Ordinary Members. They shall be en- 
titled to the privileges of ordinary membership except that they shall be 
entitled to send not more than one representative to any meeting or ex- 
cursion of the Society, and only accredited representatives of Societies 
shall be entitled to vote. They shall consult the Panel only through 
their secretariat. They are expected to support the objects of the 
Society and to accept the responsibilities of Ordinary Membership as 
far as possible, and their acceptance and retention as Subscribers is 
subject to the absolute discretion of the Council. 
6. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 
(a) The annual subscription shall be one guinea for Ordinary Members. 
(b) Annual subscriptions are payable upon the first day of January in 
each year. 
(c) The annual subscription of members who join the Society on or 
after the first day of October shall cover the period ending on the 
thirty-first day of December of the following year. 
(d) Notice shall be given to every member of his subscription being 
due. 
(e) Any member Avhose subscription shall be in an-ear for two yeai's on 
the first day of January in any year shall cease to be a member. 
7. LIFE MEMBERSHIP 
.Members who have already compounded for Life Membership shall con- 
tinue to enjoy all the privileges of Ordinary Members. No further Life 
Members shall be accepted for the present. 
8. PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERSHIP 
Each member of the Society shall be entitled: — 
(a) To receive one uopy of the Society’s periodical publications as 
issued (except as provided under Rule 4(c)). 
(b) To submit plants for naming to the Honorary General Secretai’y or 
to the specialists on the Panel (see Rule 19). Retuni postages 
shall he prepaid by the sender. 
