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ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
II. Constitution. 
2. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary, and Ex-officio 
Fellows, without distinction of sex. 
3. The number of Ordinary Fellows shall not be limited. The 
number of Honorary Fellows shall be limited to fifty, and of Ex-officio 
Fellows to one hundred. 
III. Management. 
4. The management of the Society’s property and affairs shall 
be vested in a Council consisting of twenty Members, viz. : — Eight 
Officers (a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and two 
Secretaries) and twelve other Ordinary Fellows (hereinafter referred 
to as “ Ordinary Members of Council ”). 
IV. Fellows. 
A. Election. 
{a) Ordinary Fellows. 
5. Every candidate desirous of being elected an Ordinary Fellow 
must be proposed by three or more Ordinary Fellows who must sign 
a certificate setting forth his names, place of residence, and descrip- 
tion. The Fellow whose name stands first upon the certificate, must 
have personal knowledge of the candidate. In cases which the 
Council regard as exceptional, the Council shall have power to 
dispense with this provision. 
6. The certificate shall be read by the President, Vice-President, 
or other Chairman, or one of the Secretaries at the General Meeting 
next after its receipt, and shall then be suspended in one of the rooms 
of the Society, and shall be read a second time at the next succeeding 
General Meeting. 
7. The votes on any election of Ordinary Fellows shall be taken 
by ballot. 
8. The ballot shall take place at the General Meeting at which the 
certificate shall have been read for the second time. No ballot shall 
be valid unless ten or more votes are recorded ; and when at least two- 
thirds of the votes are in favour of the candidate, he shall be declared 
duly elected. 
9. The Secretaries shall send a notice of election, together with a 
copy of these By-Laws, to every Ordinary Fellow so elected. 
10. Every person elected an Ordinary Fellow shall sign the 
following form of declaration, and shall pay the admission fee and 
first annual subscription within two months from the date of election 
or within such further time as the Council may allow. In default of 
such signature and payment the election of such Fellow shall be void. 
Z, the undersigned , having been elected a Fellow of the Koyal 
Microscopical Society, hereby agree that I will be governed by the 
Charter and By-Laws of the Society for the time being ; and that 
I will advance the objects of the Society as far as shall be in my 
