^{page 759 note *} A modification of this rule, in certain cases, was agreed to at a Meeting of the Society held onthe 3rd January 1831.

At the Meeting of the Society, on the 5th January 1857, when the reduction of the Contributions from £3, 3s. to £2, 2s., from the 11th to the 25th year of membership, was adopted, it was resolved that the existing Members shall share in this reduction, so far as regards their futureannual Contributions.

^{page 760 note *} “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.”

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