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Office-Bearers of the Society. 



I5th November^ 1843, — The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. John Turnbull, Thomas Edington, John Fisher, Rev. Isaac 

 Hitchin, Rev. Lewis Page Mercier, were admitted members of the 

 Society. 



Dr. Balfour presented to the Society a paper by Dr. Maclagan, on 

 the Beeberu bark, for which the thanks of the Society were voted. 



Mr. James Thomson called the attention of the Society to the pro- 

 priety of memorialising Government to resume and prosecute with 

 vigour the ordnance survey of Scotland. A committee was appointed 

 to draw up a memorial. 



The treasurer exhibited his audited accounts for last year, showing 

 at the credit of the Society £60 in bank, and £5 lis. 8id. in trea- 

 surer's hands. The librarian also presented his accounts audited, 

 exhibiting the receipt of £105 14s. 5d., and an expenditure of 

 £70 3s. lOd., leaving a balance of £35 10s. 7d. in librarian's hands. 



The Society then proceeded to the forty-second annual election of 

 Office-Bearers, when the following were chosen for the session 1843-44: 



©ffi'ceslSearers. 

 Phesidbnt — ^Pkofessob Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S. L. & E., F.L.S., &c. 



Vice-Pbesident, . . .Walter Ckum. I Secretary, Alexander Hastie. 



Treasurer, Andrew Liddell. | LibrarlAlN, Thomas Dawson. 



A. Anderson, M.D. 

 J. H. Balfour, M.D. 

 A. Buchanan, M.D. 



J. FlNDLAY, M.D. 



Walter Crum. 

 Alex. Hastie. 

 James Thomson, C.E. 



Council 



Professor Gordon. 



WlLLLOI GOURLIE. 



J. J. Griffin. 

 Alex. Harvey. 



HitrarB Committee. 



John Findlay, M.D. 

 J. J. Griffin. 

 R. D. Thomson, M.D. 

 Chairman, Thomas Dawson 



John Stenhousb, Ph.D. 

 James Thomson. 

 R. D. Thomson, M.D. 

 Alex. Watt, LL.D. 



J. H. Balfour, M.D. 

 Professor Gordon. 

 Alex. Watt, LL.D. 



^utltsi^ing Committee. 



The President and Vice-President — ^The Secretaries of the Sections. 

 Chairman, R. D. Thomson, M.D. 



It was suggested by Dr. R. D. Thomson and agreed to, that a 

 Botanical Section should be added to the other branches of the Society, 

 — that the office-bearers of each section should in future be a chair- 

 man and secretary, so as to enable each section optionally to hold 

 separate meetings for the discussion of subjects connected with its own 

 science, each secretary preparing the minutes of the proceedings of his 

 section, and reading them at the next general meeting of the Society. 



