Description | Has read through the Charters and found no reference to the question of the nationality of Fellows excepting the case of privileged Fellows. In the early times of the [Royal] Society no restriction was placed on the election of foreigners as ordinary Fellows. Later on Foreign Fellows were regulated by state and there is a fairly full account of the history in the Record (pp 106-108). From this it appears that Foreigners are not competent for election except as Foreign members when the special procedure provided that they are resident of the Queen's dominions. |