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failed in obtaining it, and then directed his attention towards che- 

 mistry, on which he was appointed Lecturer at Glasgow in the fol- 

 lowing year. He continued at Glasgow until 1795, in which year 

 he delivered a course in Edinburgh conjointly with Black, whose de- 

 caying health allowed him only to deliver the lectures on Caloric. 

 In the year 1796 he succeeded Black in the Chemical Chair in the 

 University of Edinburgh, which he continued to fill for nearly half a 

 century. During the whole of this lengthened period he maintained 

 the character of a most popular and able lecturer, and obtained a 

 high reputation in chemical science, without individually contribu- 

 ting much to its progress. 



His earliest contribution to the Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh was " An Account of a Mineral from Strontian, and of 

 a peculiar species of Earth which it contains," published in the third 

 and fourth volumes. But his most important researches were on the 

 subject of Heat, and on the Phaenomena of Freezing, an object which 

 occupied his attention almost to the period of his death, his last com- 

 munication to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, read on the 1st of 

 May 1843, being "An Attempt to explain the Phsenomena of the 

 Freezing- cavern at Orenburg." On the 3rd of April in the same 

 year he had laid before the same Society a paper entitled " Chemical 

 Observations on the Flowers of the Camellia Japonica, Magnolia 

 grandiflora and Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum ; and on three proxi- 

 mate principles which they contain," thus connecting his plater che- 

 mical with his earlier botanical pursuits. 



Dr. Hope was the oldest surviving Member of the Linnean Society, 

 having been elected an Associate on the 18th of March 1788. In 

 the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, and in 1810 of the Royal Society of London. In 1843, he 

 found himself unequal to the continuance of his lectures, which were 

 delivered for him by Dr. Traill, and he shortly afterwards resigned 

 the Chemical Chair. He died on the 13th of June 1844, having nearly 

 completed his 78th year. 



The Secretary also announced that 16 Fellows, 3 Foreign Mem- 

 bers, and 1 Associate had been elected since the last Anniversary. 



At the election which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 

 Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer ; 

 John Joseph Bennett, Esq., Secretary ; and Richard Taylor, Esq., 

 Under-Secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the 

 Council in the room of others going out : viz. C. C. Babington, Esq., 

 Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ; Thomas Bell, 



