10 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



ridica, atque ut univerfa Corpora qua; ad Hiftoriam Naturalem 

 pertinent, quceque eadem Societas acquiftverit , deponantur in Mufao 

 Academic Edinenjis, ita ut utraque CollecJio aperta Jit Sociis, et e 

 re publica fit, quantum fieri potefl : ET dicTi Petitores, atque it ex 

 quibufcunque pojlea conjlabit dicla Societas, per has Lit eras patentes, 

 potejiatem habebunt privatas ferendi Leges ad ejus adminiftrationem 

 idoneas, et in aliis rebus procedendi, agendi etfaciendi, congrue cum 

 Generali Lege et Praxi nojlri Regni Scotia in talibus cajibus. IN 

 CUJUS RE I TESTIMONIUM, prafentibus Sigillum no- 

 Jlrum per Unionis TracJatum cujlodiena. et in Scotia, Vice et Loco 

 magniSigilliejufdem, utend. ordinal, appendi mandavimus : A PUD 

 Aulam nojiram apud St James's, vigejimo nono die men/is Martii, 

 1783. ' anno Domini millejima feptingentefimo et oflogefimo tertio, Regnique 



nojlri anno vigejimo tertio. 



Per Signaturam Manu S. D. N. Regis fuprafcript. 



jane 23. THE firft general meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 



the was held, in terms of the above Charter, on Monday the 23d 

 society. ^ Q{ j une ^g^ ^j the Right Honourable THOMAS MILLER 



of Barfkimming, Lord Juftice-Clerk, was chofen Prefident of 

 the meeting. 



IT was then unanimoufly refolved, That all the members of 

 the Philofophical Society of Edinburgh mould be aflumed as 

 members of the Royal Society : And it was likewife refolved, 

 That the Lords of Council and Seffion, the Barons of Exche- 

 quer for Scotland, and a feledl number of other gentlemen, 

 mould be invited to a participation of the Society's labours. 



THE meeting afterwards proceeded to eftablifli the form or 

 conftitution of the Society, and to frame a fet of regulations 

 for its future proceedings. 



Mr JOHN ROBISON, Profeflbr of Natural Philofophy in the 

 Univerfity of Edinburgh, was unanimoufly elected General Se- 

 cretary, and Mr ALEXANDER KEJTH, writer to the Signet,Trea- 

 furer of the Society. 



THE 



