MEMBERS
How to Join
To become a member of the Hunterian Society a prospective Fellow must be proposed and seconded by current Fellows of the Society, and the nomination agreed by the members by a show of hands at a scientific meeting.
However, prospective members are most welcome at meetings and would attend as ‘guests of the President’.
The Society would be pleased to welcome prospective members at any of the meetings listed in the Calendar section.
Information on how to arrange to attend a meeting is available on the Reservations section of the Calendar page of the website
Before attending, visitors must contact Ms Leah Parvin by email at hunteriansociety@gmail.com to ask to attend.
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Please use this application form for Membership
Please use this application form for Student Membership
and send to hunteriansociety@gmail.com
Completed and countersigned forms can be emailed or posted to the Hunterian Society at Lettsom House at the addresses listed in the Contact details.
Fellows
Fellows, other than Honorary Fellows and Associate Fellows, on admission will normally be registered Medical Practitioners, Veterinarians, Dentists, Nurses or Medical Scientists. Other related professionals such as Medical Ethicists, Information Technologists and Medical Historians will be considered by Council up to a limit of 10% of the Fellowship.
Any Candidate for admission as a Fellow shall be proposed by no fewer than two Fellows, who have personal knowledge of the Candidate. An Election shall take place at the first available meeting whether in person or by electronic means by a show of hands or by ballot if requested. A 75% majority by the Fellows present shall be necessary to elect. A newly elected Fellow shall normally be admitted at an open meeting by the President.
Associate Fellows and Student Membership
Spouses or partners of Fellows in good standing shall be offered the status of Associate Fellowship upon the decease of the Fellow.
Medical, Dental and Veterinary students may also be elected as Associate Fellows and on qualification may be invited to become full Fellows.
Associate Fellows, upon the payment of a reduced annual membership fee shall receive all normal correspondence sent to other Fellows, have the right to attend all the meetings of the Society, but will not have the power to vote nor to hold Office within the Society
Honorary and Life Fellows
The President, on the authority of Council, shall propose as Honorary Fellows those Fellows who have given signal service over time to the Society.
The President is empowered by Council to propose men and women of high merit and reputation in the fields of the Law, the Sciences, the Arts and the wider world of endeavour to Honorary Fellowship of the Society.
These shall be subject to the same processes of election as for candidates for ordinary Fellowship.
There shall be no more than twenty Honorary Fellows.