46 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



APPENDIX. 



MEMBERS DECEASED. 



SINCE the inftitution of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 



the following Members have died, viz. 



William Lothian, D. D. fenior Minifter of Canongate. Decem- 

 ber 17. 1783. 



Sir George Clerk-Maxwell, Baronet, of Penny cuik. January 29. 

 1784. 



Matthew Stewart, D. D. Emeritus ProfefTor of Mathematics in 

 the Univerfity of Edinburgh. January 23. 1785. 



Andrew Cro/bie, Efq; Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. 

 February 25. 1785. 



Robert Bruce, Efq; of Kennet, one of the Senators of the Col- 

 lege of Juftice. April 8. 1785. 



Sir Alexander Dick, Baronet, of Preftonfield. November 10. 1785. 



Alexander Wilfon, M. D. ProfefTor of Practical Aftronomy in the 

 Univerfity of Glafgow. October 16. 1786. 



John Hope, M. D. King's Botanift in Scotland, and Profeflbr of 

 Medicine and Botany in the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 

 November n. 1786. 



Robert Hamilton, D. D. Emeritus Profeflbr of Divinity in the 

 Univerfity of Edinburgh. April 2. 1787. 



Sir James Hunter-Blair, Baronet, of Dunfkey. July I. 1787. 



William Irvine, M. D. Lecturer on Chemiftry in the Univerfity of 

 Glafgow. July 9. 1787. 



THE following BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS of the three firft 

 of thefe ha've been read at different meetings of the Clafles. 



I. ACCOUNT 



