Grants may be made available to individuals of suitable standing from elsewhere in the UK or abroad to assist them to come to Scotland to deliver one or more lectures in Scottish Higher Education Institutions. Following the award of a grant, it is expected that the support of the Society be acknowledged in advertising the meeting or meetings at which the Lecturer will speak, and that the Fellow who is sponsoring the Visiting Lecturer will chair the meeting (or at least one of the meetings) addressed by the Visiting Lecturer.

The normal grant will be £350 but this amount may be increased if the Lecturer undertakes a series of lectures in more than one centre. The grant may be used for travel and subsistence expenses, and for suitable entertainment, but not for an honorarium. It will be acceptable, where appropriate, for the grant from the Society to be supplemented by other organisations such as the British Council and the parent or the host institutions.

In the case of a particularly distinguished Lecturer, following the decision of Council in 1991, it would be appropriate to award him/her the title of Fürth Visiting Lecturer in memory of Professor Reinhold Fürth, FRSE (1893-1979), whose estate was received by the Society in 1983, and now forms a significant part of its Grants Fund. Such a Lecturer would be introduced as the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fürth Visiting