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will advance the objects of the said Society as far as shall be in our 
power : and that We will attend the usual meetings of the Society 
as often as we conveniently can. Provided that whenever We or 
any of us shall signify in writing to the Society that We are desirous 
of withdrawing our names therefrom, We shall, after the payment of 
any annual contribution which may be due by us at that period, be 
free from this obligation. 
After a few blank pages the three following names and date 
are entered on a separate page for some unknown reason :— 
El Conde de Montemolin. 
June 11, 1847. 
General Montenegro. 
Le Chevalier de Berard. 
No mention is made of these gentlemen in the Monthly Notice 
for 1847 June 11, nor in the index to the volume of M.N. : the only 
Associate elected recently was Le Verrier. It may be presumed 
that three distinguished visitors were present at the meeting and 
were asked to inscribe their names on a page which lay just outside 
the list of Fellows. This begins on the following page, room being 
left at the top of the page for the declaration to be filled in (on 
each page) ; but this has never been done. 
The first names in the list of Fellows are those of H. T. Cole- 
brooke, Francis Baily, John F. W. Herschel, Davies Gilbert, William 
Pearson, etc. etc. 
After the acquisition of the Royal Charter a new declaration 
was written out and a new list of signatures was started on p. 7, 
many Fellows signing afresh ( e.g . F. Baily, B. Gompertz, and 
Edward Riddle occur in the first dozen names of both lists). 
The first name of the new list is that of Francis Baily. But the 
existence of two lists has produced some confusion, the book 
having apparently been opened on more than one occasion at the 
wrong place ; for the name preceding Baily’s ( i.e . the last on p. 6) is 
the modern one of 
E. B. Knobel for Mr. J. H. Honeyburne. 
On p. 8 someone at some time has upset the ink, but all the signa 
tures show through quite well. 
Associates 
It has already been remarked that we may regard Peter 
Slawinski as the first Associate Member. The first Associate to 
be elected in the ordinary way was Biot, proposed in 1820 June 
and elected in December. Seven others were proposed in Novem-