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science. With feelings, tlierefore, of deep emotion, we regard the present 

 most propitious event, which gives to this Empire another security, that, 

 under the royal shelter and patronage of your House, the cause of Science 

 and the Arts shall long continue to flourish in tranquil prosperity. Most 

 heartily M'e pray that a gracious Providence may surround your Royal Per- 

 son and Family with every blessing, and may long preserve your Majesty 

 in the fulness of domestic happiness and of public glory to reign over a free, 

 loyal, and religious people. 



" Signed in our name and by our appointment, by the President, "Vice- 

 Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer, and sealed at Edinburgh the twenty- 

 second day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty- 

 one. 



(Signed) " John Robison, President. 

 "J. S. More, Vice-President. 



©" William Galbraith, Vice-President. 

 " James Tod, Secretary. 

 " John Scott Moncrieff, Treasurer.*' 



tJnto Field-Marshall His Royal Highness Prince Albert^ K.G. &c. 



The Humble Address of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. 

 " May it please your Royal Higlmess, 



'* We, the President and Fellows of The Rmfol Scottish Society of Arts, 

 desire respectfully to express our faithful attachment to your Royal Person, 

 and to ofl'er our humble congratulations to your Royal Highness on the 

 auspicious event, which, by the birth of a Prince, has gladdened the hearts 

 of the people of these realms ; and which, in the merciful dispensation of 

 Providence, has preserved unimpaired the health of your Royal Highness's 

 Consort, our most gracious Sovereign. We earnestly pray that the life of 

 the illustrious Prince may be long and prosperous, and that every member 

 of the Royal House, of which we trust he is destined to be a signal ornament, 

 may be ever secure in the loyal affections of a happy people. 



" Signed in our name, and by our appointment, by the President, Vice- 

 Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer, and sealed at Edinburgh the twenly- 

 second day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one. 



(Signed as above.) 



The following Communications were then made : — 



1. Description, with Diagrams, of a Portable Diorama, constructed by 

 George Tait, Esq. advocate. The Diorama was exhibited. Thanks votMl, 

 and abstract to be printed in the Transactions. (833.) 



2. Description, with a Drawing, of the Apparatus invented by him for 

 turning on and shutting off the Gas which illuminates the Translucent Cloi-k- 

 Dial above his shop. By Mr Robert Bryson, clock and watchmaker, Prince's 

 Street, Edinburgh. A full-sized working Model was exhibited. Thanks 

 voted, and to be printetl in tho Transactions. (834.) 



