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December 3d, 1851. — In the absence of the President and Vice-President, 

 Mr. Liddell loas called to the Chair. 



The following were elected members, viz.: — Messrs. Nathaniel Holmes, 

 William Wallace, Robert Bruce Bell, Daniel Miller, George Glennie, 

 William Thomson, Ramsay Thomson. 



The Society voted a second time on the proposal submitted by the 

 Council that an additional Vice-President should be appointed, when it 

 was unanimously and finally approved of. It was in like manner agreed 

 that neither of the Vice-Presidents shall be eligible for more than two 

 years consecutively, and that the election to the office shall be annual, as 

 in the case of the Office-bearers. 



Dr. G. A. Walker Arnott was elected Vice-President. 



It was resolved that at next meeting the Society should elect a member 

 of council in room of Dr. Walker Arnott. 



Mr. Robert Blackie gave notice of a motion to the following effect: — 



" That instead of the entire council of this Society going out of office 

 annually, and being eligible at once for re-election, only four members of 

 council shall retire annually, who shall not be eligible for re-election tiU 

 they have been one year out of office, and that four new members be 

 elected annually in room of those that go out. 



" That this change be brought into operation at next general election, 

 in the following manner: — The names of the twelve councillors then 

 elected to be arranged in accordance with the number of votes recorded 

 for each, — the one having the greatest number of votes to be placed at 

 the bottom of the list, that he may remain longest in office, and the 

 others progressively above — the one having the least number of votes 

 being placed at the top. That at the end of one year the four councillors 

 whose names are at the top of the list, retire from office, and four new 

 ones be elected, and their names placed at the bottom, and so on in 

 succession." 



Mr. John Thomson, C.E., read " Remarks on the Advantages of 

 Tubular Drainage, as applied to Houses, Streets, and Towns." 



December 17 th, 1851. — In tfte absence of both the Vice-Presidents, 

 Mr. William Murray vjos called to the Cfixtir. 



The following were elected members, viz: — Lord John Hay, Com- 

 mander, R.N. ; Messrs. Thomas Carlile, Andrew Kelley, Robert Stark. 



Mr. Hastie stated that Mr. Blackie's motion for a change in the mode 

 of electing the members of council, had this evening been under the con- 

 sideration of the Council, by whom a report on the proposal would be 

 submitted to the Society before the close of the Session. 



The Society proceeded to elect a member to fill the vacancy in the 

 Council, caused by the appointment of Dr. George Walker Arnott to the 



