Proceedings of the Society ofjfrts. 409 



PRIVATE BUSINESS. 



I. The following Candidates were admitted as Ordinary 

 Members, viz. :— ■ 



I. H.D.Dickie, Esq. Manager Caledonian Firo and Life Assurance 

 Company. 2. Captain John Donaldson Boswcll, K. N. 3. James Thom- 

 son, Esq. civil engineer, Glasgow. 4. Charles Ransford, M.D., F.R.C.P., 

 surgeon, Edinburgh. 5. John H. Hardyman, Esq. W. S. 



II. On the motion of the Council the Society elected the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen as Honorary Members, viz. : — 



1. W. A. Graham, Esq. Secretary to the Society for Encouragement of 

 Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi, London. 2. Professor 

 Encke, Berlin. 3. Professor Jacobi, St Petersburgh. 4. General "Wilson, 

 ditto. 5. Sir John Rennie, C. E., London. C. James "Walker, Esq., C. E., 

 Pros. Inst. Civ. Eng., ditto. 7. George Stephenson, Esq. C. E., Newcastle. 

 8. Cliarles Vignoles, Esq. C. E., London. 9. C. W. Williams, Esq. Liver- 

 pool, 10. Richard Roberts, Esq., of Sharpe, Roberts and Co., Manches- 

 ter. II. William Fairbairn, Esq., ditto. 12. Eaton Hodgkinson, Esq., 

 ditto. 13. Robert Mallet, Esq., C. E., Dublin. 



III. The Society elected the following gentlemen as Office- 

 Bearers and Councillors for Session 1840-41, viz. : — 



The Queen, Patroness. 

 Andrew Fyfe, M. D., F. R. S. E., President, 

 James L'Amy, Esq. of Dunkenny, F. R. S. E. 1 yice-Presid^ntz, 



LIEUT.-COLONEL ThOMAS BlANSHARD, R. E. J 



James Tod, W. S., 21 Dublin Street, Secretary. 

 MuNGO Ponton, F. R. S. E., 30 Melville Street, Foreign Secretary, 

 John Scott MoNCRiEFF, Accountant, 4 Albyn Place, Treasurer. 

 John Dunn, 03 Hanover Street, Curator of Museum. 



Ordinary Councillors. 

 Gilbert L. Finlay. Alex. Bry'son. 



John Beatson Bell. Alex. Rose. 



David Stevenson. William Crawfurd. 



James Hunter, M. D. Charles Cowan. 



Robert Maxton, James Hay. 



C. H. Wilson. William Wood, F.R.C.S. 



In quitting the President's chair, Sir J. G. Dalyell said, 

 he had witnessed the most flourishing era of the Society, not 

 only in the accession of new members, 135 having been enrolled 

 during the three years of his office, but in number, variety, 

 and interest of the subjects brought forward. These were 

 very different from those of earlier date above alluded to ; for 

 here were Mechanics in their various branches — Hydraulics, 



