HIS TORT of the sociErr. 



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Dec. 17. 

 MrDalzel on 

 t1ie llandard of 

 taile. 



Lit. CI. Mr Dalzel read an Eflay on the Standard of 

 Tafte, and on the Nature and Hiflory of Criticifm. He did 

 not incline that this Eflay, or any abftra(5l of it, fhould be 

 printed in this volume. 



He alfo read a fliort Eflay by the Reverend Mr Robertson, 

 Minifter of Dalmeny, on the Subjundlive Mode in Englifh Verbs, 

 and on pall and will. The author did not incline that any 

 account of this Eflay fliould be given in this volume. 



Phyf. CI. Dr Walker read a continuation of Mr Loghead's 

 papet' on the Natural Hiilory of Madeira. [Seey?//'/-«, Nov. 5. 1787.] 



Lit. CI, MrMACONOCHiE read a paper containing Obferva- j»n. 21. 

 tions refpeding the Country, Religion, Political Infl;itutions, on the Hindoo's! 

 and Sciences of the Hindoos. 



At the fame Meeting, Mr Commiflloner Smith reported the 

 opinion of the Committee appointed to examine the three Dif- 

 fertations offered as Solutions of the Count de Windisch- 

 GRATz's Problem, [See fupra, Aug. 6. T787.] ; which was, 

 That none of the thi-ee Diflertations amounted, either to a folu- 

 tion, or to an approximation towards a folution of that pro- 

 blem. The Committee, however, intimated their opinion, that 

 one of thefe Diflertations, fuperfcribed with the following fen- 

 tence. Si quid novijli reBitis ijlis, &c. though neither a folution 

 of the problem nor an approximation to it, was a work of great 

 merit. The Royal Society, hereupon, pronounced their judg- 

 ment in terms of the faid report; and they requeftedMr Fraser 

 Tytler to tranfmit this judgment, and the opinion of the 

 Committee, by a letter to the Count de Windischgratz. 



Repoit and 



judgment rela- 

 tive to the 

 Connt de Win* 

 difchgralz's- 

 problem. 



A GENERAL Meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 

 eledion of Members. [See Lift in the Appendix to the Hiflory 

 of the Society.] 



Vol. IL (D) Fbyf.. 



Jan. 23- 



General Meet- 

 ing. 



