ee, 
SP. Rwibeok Ai CE. 
F TER the medical fociety of Edin- 
burgh had publifhed thofe volumes of 
We Effays, which have met with fo favourable 
_ arreception from the public, a propofal was 
_ made them to enlarge their plan, and to car- 
ry their difquifitions into other parts of na- 
ture, befide fuch as more immediately relate 
to the branches of medicine. All the {ci- 
~ ences are remarked to have clofe connexion 
together ; but none more than thofe of me-' 
‘dicine and natural philofophy : And the foci- 
ety foon obferved, that, fhould it turn its in- 
_ quiries into more general knowledge, it could 
~ reap the advantage of preferving all its old 
“members, and needed but open its door to 
Gentlemen of other profeffions, who might 
enrich it with their obfervations and difco- 
veries. 
Soon after the fociety had received a new 
form, feveral misfortunes happened, which 
retarded its progrefs, and have hitherto pre- 
yented it from communicating any thing to 
the 
