HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 7 



ftitution, its bufinefs was conduced with renewed ardour and 

 fuccefs. 



ABOUT the end of the year 1 782, in a meeting of the Profeflbrs 

 of the Univerfity of Edinburgh, many of whom were likewife 

 members of the Philofophical Society, and warmly attached to 

 its interefte, a fcheme was propofed by the Reverend Dr RO- 

 BERTSON, Principal of the Univerfity, for the eftablifhment of 

 a New Society on a more extended plan, and after the model of 

 Ibme of the foreign Academies, which have for their object the 

 cultivation of every branch of fcience, erudition and tafte. It 

 appeared an expedient meafure to folicit the Royal Patronage to 

 an inftitution of this nature, which promifed to be of national 

 importance, and to requeft an eftablifhment by charter from 

 the Crown. The plan was approved and adopted ; and the 

 Philofophical Society, joining its influence as a body, in fecond- 

 ing the application from the Univerfity, his Majefty was mod 

 gracioufly pleafed to incorporate THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF 

 EDINBURGH, by the following Charter : 



GrEORGIUS, Dei Gratia, Magnte Britannia, Francis, et Hiber- 

 ni<z Rex, Fidel Defenfor^ OMNIBUS probis bominibus, adquospree- 

 fentes Liters nojlrce pervenerint, Salutem. %UAND >UIDEM, 

 Nos confiderantes quod Petitio bumilis Nobis oblata fuerit ', a Henrico 

 Duce de Buccleugh, Roberto Dundas Armigero, Domino Praftde 

 Curia SeJJlonls ; Jacobo Montgomery Armigero^ Domino Capitali 

 Barone Curies Scaccarii in Scotia ; Thoma Miller Armigero, Do- 

 mino Juftitiario Clerico; Joanne Grieve Armigero, Domino Pra- 

 pojito Civitatis Edinenjis ; Domino Alexandro Dick Baronet to j 

 Domino Georgio Clerk Baronetto; Reverendo Gulielmo Robert- 

 fon, 5. 5. Theologies Doff ore, Academlee Edinenjis PrafeEio; Gu- 

 lielmo Cullen et Alexandro Monro, Medicina Doftoribus; Hu- 

 gone Blair et Joanne Walker, 5. Theologies Doftoribus; Adamo 

 Fergufon, Legum Doffore, et Andrea Dalzel, Joanne Robifon, 

 ft Allano Maconochie, in Academia Edinenji Profeffbribus ; Hay 



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