682 PROCEEDINGS OF GENERAL MEETINGS, 



Professor FORBES, General Secretary. 



Dr CHKISTISOK, 



D. MILNE, Esq., ) Secrctaries to Ordinary Meetings. 



JOHN RUSSELL, Esq., Treasurer. 

 Dr TRAILL, Curator of Library. 

 Mr STARK, Curator of Museum. 



COUNSELLORS. 



Sir H. JARDINE. Professor SYME. 



J. S. MORE, Esq. Mr A. BELL. 



Professor HENDERSON. MR W. A. CADELL. 



Professor KELLAND. Dr MACLAGAN. 



Sir G. WAHRENDER, Bart. Mr JAMES WILSON. 



Sir J. ROBISON, K.H. Bishop TERROT. 



The Treasurer laid his Accounts on the Table. The following Committee was appointed 

 to audit them ; 



SIR H. JARDINE. W. PAUL, Esq. JAMES WALE.EB, Esq. 



On the motion of Lord GREENOCK, the following Address to Her MAJESTY, prepared by 

 the COUNCIL, was unanimously adopted by the Meeting, and desired to be transmitted to the 

 Secretary of State through the President of the Society : 



TO THE QUEEN. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 



We, your Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects, the President and Fellows of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, beg leave to approach your Majesty with our heartfelt congratu- 

 lations upon the auspicious event by which a merciful Providence has at once granted a happy 

 completion to the tenderest desire of our Sovereign's maternal heart, and to the wishes and 

 prayers of all her faithful and affectionate subjects, in the birth of an Heir- Apparent to the 

 Throne on which your Majesty and your Royal Ancestors have so long ruled this great Empire. 

 We acknowledge a happy omen for the perpetuity of that union of liberty and social order un- 

 der which the power and happiness of these realms have grown up and flourished ; and an 

 additional reason to hope that, under the parental rule of your Majesty and your Royal 

 Descendants, we and our children, and our children's children, shall continue to enjoy those 

 national blessings which we gratefully acknowledge that we have received under your Majesty's 

 mild and beneficent administration of the high powers committed to your hands. 



That your Majesty may, through a long and prosperous reign, be supported by that 

 Divine aid which has hitherto been so conspicuous in the happy events both of your public and 

 private life ; that you may long enjoy all the domestic happiness which can crown the wishes 

 of a wife and a mother, together with the gratifying conviction of being the instrument of 

 happiness, and the object of grateful and respectful affection, to a great and united nation ; 



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