AND LIST OF MEMBERS ELECTED. 505 



PHYSICAL CLASS. 



Hon. LORD NEWTON, President. 

 JOHN ROBISON, Esq. Secretary. 



COUNCILLORS FROM THE PHYSICAL CLASS. 



Professor WALLACE. Dr GRAHAM. 



Dr TURNER. JAMES HUNTER, Esq. 



Sir T. M. BRISBANE, K. C. B. Dr ALISON. 



LITERARY CLASS. 



HENRY MACKENZIE, Esq. President. 

 P. F. TYTLER, Esq. Secretary. 



COUNCILLORS FROM THE LITERARY CLASS. 



Sir JOHN HAY, Bart. THOMAS KIN NEAR, Esq. 



Dr HIBBERT. Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart. 



Hon. LORD MEADOWBANK. Rev. Dr BRUNTON. 



Dr BALLINGALL, Dr GRAHAM, and Mr HOBISON were appointed a Committee to 

 examine and report on the Treasurer's Accounts. 



Dr GRAHAM gave notice of a Motion to alter the 17th Law, in so far " as to do 

 away the appointment, at future elections, of Presidents to the Physical and Literary 

 Classes, and to add two to the present number of Vice-Presidents." 



Dr GRAHAM explained, that, as according to the present practice of the Royal 

 Society, there never were any separate meetings of these Classes, the persons on whom 

 the distinction of being appointed Presidents is conferred, can never be called on to 

 take the Chair, and that it would therefore be better that they should be added to the 

 number of Vice-Presidents, when they would in turn preside in the absence of the 

 President. 



The Motion was ordered to lie on the table until the first Ordinary Meeting in 

 January. 



Mr ALLAN represented that some means of warming and ventilating the Society's 

 apartments, by heated air, would be conducive to the comfort of the Members, and to 

 the preservation of the property of the Society, and suggested that a small Committee 



