Section VIII.—Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents.

1.—Any person who has distinguished himself as a geological investigator, or who has shown himself able and willing to communicate to the Society original and important geological information, or who has exercised signal liberality towards the Society, except he be a native of the British dominions, or of their dependencies, or be domiciliated therein, may be elected a Foreign Correspondent.

2.—The Foreign Members shall be elected out of the list of Foreign Correspondents.

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3.—Candidates for admission into the Society as Foreign Members or Foreign Correspondents are to be proposed and balloted for in the same manner as candidates for admission into the Society as Fellows; except that the proposer, whoso name stands first on the certificate, may, in default of personal knowledge, certify his knowledge of the works and respectability of the candidate; and that the certificate need not state that the candidate is desirous of becoming a Foreign Member or Foreign Correspondent.

4.—The President shall sign, and the Secretaries shall countersign, the Diploma [see No IV. in the Appendix] of every Foreign Member or Foreign Correspondent, as soon as may be after his election; and shall deliver the same, so signed and countersigned, to the Foreign Secretary, who shall, on the earliest opportunity, forward it to such Foreign Member or Foreign Correspondent, together with notice of his election.

5.—Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents shall not be required to sign the Obligation until present at a general meeting of the Society; and when so present, they shall be admitted with formalities similar to those prescribed for the admission of Fellows.

6.—Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents may be removed in the manner prescribed for the removal of Fellows.

7.—Foreign Members and Foreign Correspondents shall be exempt from payment of any admission-fee or annual contribution.

8.—Foreign Members shall not be entitled to propose candidates, to vote at general meetings, or to fill any office in the Society; but they shall be entitled to the exercise of every other privilege whatsoever allowed to Fellows.

9.—Foreign Correspondents cannot exercise any of the privileges of Fellows or Foreign Members.