HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 13 



EVERY member is defired, at his admiffion, to intimate which 

 of thofe clafles he wifhes to be more particularly aflbciated with ; 

 but he is, at the fame time, entitled to attend the meetings of 

 the other clafs, and to take part in all its proceedings. 



EACH of the clafles has four Prefidents and two Secretaries, 

 who officiate by turns. 



THE meetings of the Phyfical Clafs are held on the firft Mon- 

 days of January, February, March, April, July, Auguft, Novem- 

 ber and December ; and the meetings of the Literary Clafs 

 are held on the third Mondays of January, February, March, 

 April, June, July, November and December, at 7 o'clock after- 

 noon. 



AT thefe meetings, the written eflays and obfervations of the 

 members of the Society, or their correfpondents, are read pu- 

 blicly, and become the fubjecls of converfation. The fubjecls 

 of thefe eflays and obfervations are announced at a previous 

 meeting, in order to engage the attendance of thofe members 

 who may be particularly interested in them. The Author of 

 each diflertation is likewife defired to furnifli the Society with 

 an abftracl of it, to be read at the next enfuiiig meeting, when 

 the converfation is renewed with increafed advantage, from 

 the knowledge previoufly acquired of the fubjecl. 



AT the fame meetings are exhibited fuch fpecimens of natu- 

 ral or artificial curiofities, fuch remains of antiquity, and fuch 

 experiments, as are thought worthy of the attention of the So- 

 ciety. All objects of natural hiftory prefented to the Society, 

 are ordered by the Charter of the Inftitution to be depofited, on 

 receipt, in the Mufeum of the Univerfity of Edinburgh, and 

 all remains of antiquity, public 'records, or ancient manufcripts, 

 in the Library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates at Pldin- 

 burgh. 



THE. 



Times of meet- 

 ing. 



Bufinefs of the- 

 Meetings. 



