658 PROCEEDINGS OF STATUTORY GENERAL MEETINGS, 
dure to be followed in consequence of Professor ForBEs’s continued indisposition ; and having 
been apprised that such an improvement had taken place in Professor ForBxEs’s health as to 
warrant strong hopes of his being able to return to Edinburgh, and to business, in the course 
of next year; and being also well satisfied with the manner in which the duties of the Se- 
eretaryship have been discharged in his absence, the Council had resolved to recommend to 
the Society that the arrangement of the past Session should be continued for another year. 
That the Council having been further informed that Professor Forpus had intimated 
that he could not accept the usual salary of office for last year, they resolved also to recom- 
mend that Mr Wixson be requested to accept the said salary for his services during the 
preceding Session, and to grant the continuance of these services for the present Session 
upon the same terms. 
The above recommendations were then unanimously adopted and confirmed by the 
General Meeting of the Society. 
Memorandun.—December 19, 1853.—At the Ordinary Meeting of this date, the Acting 
General Secretary, on the part of the Council, stated that Dr Groren Burst of Bombay had 
been duly elected a Fellow of the Society in the Session of 1845-6, but had not been enrolled 
in consequence of his absence in India, where he had, until very recently, resided ; that an- 
ticipating only a short residence in India after his intended return thither, he was desirous 
to become a resident Fellow of the Society, and that the Council, having taken into consi- 
deration the circumstances of the case, had agreed to recommend that Dr Buist be enrolled 
on payment of the usual admission-money, and the annual subscription for the current Session, 
without the exaction of arrears. 
Whereupon it was moved by Dr GREVILLE, seconded by JAMES CUNNINGHAM, Esq., 
and unanimously agreed to, “ That Dr Burst having been duly elected a Fellow of this 
Society in the Session of 1845-6, during his absence in India, be now received as an Ordi- 
nary Resident Member on payment of his entrance money, and annual contribution for the 
current Session.” 
Monday, November 27, 1854. 
At a Statutory General Meeting, Principal Luz, V.P., in the Chair, the following 
Office-Bearers were duly elected :— 
Sir T. Maxpoveatt Brissane, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.H., President. 
Sir D. Brewster, K.H., 
Very Rev. Principal Lex, 
Right Rey. Bishop Trrnot, 
Dr Curistison, 
Vice-Presidents. 
Dr Attson, 
Hon. Lord Murray, 
Professor Forses, General Secretary. 
Dr Grecory, 
De Bande, } Secretaries to the Ordinary Meetings. 
