506 PROCEEDINGS OF GENERAL MEETINGS, 



should be named to consider and report on the practicability of some plan for this pur- 

 pose. The Meeting, on considering this suggestion, appointed 



Dr HOPE, Mr PLAYFAIR, and 



Mr J. JAEDINE, Mr ROBISON, 



to be a Committee for this purpose. 



Mr ROBISON intimated, that he had received a Letter from Mr WATT, of Soho, 

 mentioning that he was preparing (with the purpose of presenting it to the Royal So- 

 ciety) a copy of Sir WILLIAM BEECHEY'S Portrait of his Father, the late Mr WATT. 

 The Meeting expressed their gratification at this communication, but deferred noticing 

 it until the arrival of the Picture. 



Mr ROBISON was directed, in the absence of the General Secretary, to open the 

 Letters, &c. which may be received, and to take the necessary steps for forwarding 

 the business of the Society. 



ORDINARY MEETINGS. 



January 7- 1828. 

 MEMBERS ELECTED. 



ORDINARY. 



Sir FRANCIS WALKER DRUMMOND, Bart. 

 Sir WILLIAM G. GORDON GUMMING, Bart. 



The Vice-President communicated to the Society, that the Council had, after due 

 investigation, adjudged the first Biennial Prize,from the donation of the late Mr KEITH, 

 to Dr BEEWSTEK, for his Papers on his discovery of two new immiscible Fluids in the 

 cavities of certain Minerals. 



