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Dr. Wittie is described, in Watts's Bibliotheca, as 

 "F.R.S.;;"and he is also thus designated in the Phi- 

 losophical Transactions abridged byllutton,Shaw, 

 and Pearson ;* but his name does not appear in 

 Appendix v. to the 19th volume of Dr.Thompson's 

 History of the Society, which professes to give 

 a list of the Fellows from its first establishment. 

 It is possible, however, that his election may have 

 taken place at one of the four meetings in 1676 or 

 1677, of which Dr. Thompson states the proceed- 

 ings to be wanting ; although the language of 

 the Dedication " To the President, Council, and 

 " Fellows of the Royal Society/' affixed to his 

 work entitled " Oi/fawo<w, or a Survey of the 

 " Heavens," printed in 1681, appears to negative 

 that presumption .f 



As a celebrated man in that eminently useful 

 class of society to which he belonged, I must not 

 omit to mention Mr. JOHN CLARK, who, towards 

 the close of the seventeenth century, was ap- 

 pointed Master of the Grammar-School, in this 

 town. During the time of his holding that situ- 



* Vol. 3, p. 612. But this is evidently a mistake, as the following 

 Title taken from the Transactions is no authority for the addition made 

 to Dr. Willie's name in the Abridgment; " Observatio anatomica rara 

 " de calculo in rene invento a Cl. Viro Dre. Wittie, R.S.,haud ita pridem 

 "communicata." 



f Since the above Address was read, its author has had an opportunity 

 of referring to the Charter-Book of the Royal Society, containing the 

 signature of every Fellow upon admission, from which it clearly appear., 

 that Dr. Wittie was not a member of that distinguished Association. 



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