592 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Defaulters. 
Privileges of 
Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Numbers 
unlimited. 
Fellows entitled 
to Transactions 
and Pro- 
ceedings. 
Mode of 
Recommending 
Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Honorary 
Fellows, British 
and Foreign. 
Y. 
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. 
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. 
VII. 
The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 
VIII. 
All Ordinary Fellows of the Society who are not in arrear of their Annual 
Contributions shall be entitled to receive, gratis, copies of the parts of the Trans- 
actions of the Society which shall be published subsequent to their admission, upon 
application, either personally or by an authorised agent, to the Librarian, provided 
they apply for them within five years of the date of publication of such parts. 
Copies of the parts of the Proceedings shall be distributed to all Fellows of the 
Society, by post or otherwise, as soon as may be convenient after publication. 
IX. 
Candidates for admission as Ordinary Fellows shall make an application in 
writing, and shall produce along with it a certificate of recommendation to the 
purport below,* signed by at least four Ordinary Fellows, two of whom shall certify 
their recommendation from personal knowledge. This recommendation shall be 
delivered to the Secretary, and by him laid before the Council, and shall be exhibited 
publicly in the Society’s rooms for one month, after which it shall be considered by 
the Council. If the Candidate be approved by the Council, notice of the day fixed 
for the election shall be given in the circulars of at least two Ordinary Meetings of 
the Society. 
X. 
Honorary Fellows shall not be subject to any contribution. This class shall 
consist of persons eminently distinguished for science or literature. 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 versed in science (or Polite Literature , as the case may be ), being 
“ to our knowledge desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, we hereby 
‘ ‘ recommend him as deserving of that honour, and as likely to prove a useful and valuable 
“ Member.” 
