322 Proceedings of the Poyal Society of Edinburgh. 
Defaulters. 
Privileges of 
Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Numbers 
unlimited, 
Fellows entitled 
to Transactions 
and Pro- 
ceedings. 
Mode of 
Recommending 
Ordinary 
Fellows. 
Form of 
Recommenda- 
tion. 
V. 
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. 
YI. 
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. 
YU. 
The number of Ordinary Fellows shall be unlimited. 
YIII. 
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. 
Each candidate for admission as an Ordinary Fellow shall be proposed and 
recommended by at least Ordinary Fellows, two of whom ‘shall certify their 
recommendation from personal knowledge. This recommendation shall be delivered 
to the Secretary before the 24th of December of each Session, and, subject to the 
approval of the Council, shall be exhibited publicly in the Society’s Rooms during 
the succeeding month of January. All recommendations so exhibited shall be con- 
sidered by the Council at its first meeting in the month of February, and a list of 
those approved by the Council for Election shall be issued to the Fellows not later 
than the 14th of February. 
X. 
The recommendation of a Candidate for admission as an Ordinary Fellow shall 
be in the following terms 
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 Fellow. 
