HIS TORT of the SOCIETY. 



for a fubfequent volume. Nor is the publication of any paper 

 to be confidered as exprefling any concurrence in opinion with 

 the author. It only intimates that the Committee judges the 

 paper to be worthy of public notice, on account of the ufeful 

 information it contains, the hints which it may fuggeft, or the 

 ingenuity which it difplays. 



AFTER the enactment of the Laws of the Society, the meet- 

 ing proceeded to the election of the office-bearers of the enfu- 

 ing year. [See the Lift fubjoined to Part firft of this vo- 

 lume.] 



4 



THE Phyfical Clafs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh met, 

 for the fir ft time, on the 4th of November 1783 ; and Dr WIL- 

 LIAM GULLEN, ProfefTor of Medicine in the Univerfity of Edin- 

 burgh, was requefted to take the chair. The meeting then 

 proceeded to the election of four Prefidents and two Secretaries, 

 for directing and recording the proceedings of this Clafs. [See 

 the Lift of the office-bearers fubjoined to Part firft of this vo- 

 lume.] The meeting then appointed a Committee for framing 

 regulations for conducting the bufinefs of the Phyfical Clafs. 



THE Literary Clafs of the Royal Society of Edinburgh met, 

 for the firft time, on the iyth of November 1783, and the Re- 

 verend Dr ROBERTSON, Principal of the Univerfity, was re- 

 quefted to prefide. The firft bufinefs of the meeting was the 

 election of four Prefldents and two Secretaries, for directing 

 and recording the proceedings of this Clafs. [See the Lift of the 

 office-bearers fubjoined to Part firft of this volume.] The meet- 

 ing then appointed a Committee for framing regulations for 

 conducting the bufinefs of the Literary Clafs. 



Pbyf. Cl. AT a meeting of the Phyfical Clafs of the Royal 

 Society, the Reverend Dr WALKER read the firft part of a pa- 

 per, 



1783. 



Auguft 4. 

 Eleaien of the 

 Office-bearers. 



Nov. 4. 

 I ft Meeting of 

 the Phyfical 

 Clafs of the 

 Royal Society. 



Nov. 17. 



I ft Meeting of 

 the Literary 

 Clafs. 



Dec. 9. 



Paper by Dr 

 Walker. 



