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Daniel Macpherson, 4 Charles Street, Edinburgh, The machine was ex- 

 hibited. (610.) Referred to a Committee. 



2. On Geodetical Surveying and Trigonometrical Levelling, No. 2. 

 By William Galbraith, M. A., C. S. A., Teacher of Mathematics, Edin- 

 burgh. (613.) Thanks voted, and to be printed in the Transactions. 



3. Notice of a Protecting Frame, to enable persons to clean the out- 

 side of windows without danger. By Mr John BailUe, 23 Cumberland 

 Street, Edinburgh. Frame exhibited. (589.) Thanks voted, and re- 

 ferred to a Committee. 



4. Mr Ponton, with the permission of the Society, laid on the table a 

 communication from Dr Traill, on the subject of his Indelible Ink, which 

 was referred to a Committee and to be read at next meeting. 



6. Donation. — The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion. By J 

 C. Loudon, F. L. S., H. S., &c. London, 1838. From the Author. 

 (471.) Thanks voted. 



The following were admitted Ordinary Members, viz., 1. Mr John 

 Mackie, mining-engineer, Alloa Colliery, Alloa. 2. Mr Laurence Hill 

 jun., civil-engineer, Barlanark, near Glasgow. 3. Mr J. G. Greig, sur- 

 geon-dentist, 57 Castle Street. Captain Alexander Milne, R. N., was 

 elected an Associate Member. 



21th Feb. — Sir John Graham Dalyell, Kt. President, in the 

 chair. 



This meeting presented more than the usual interest, from the circum- 

 stance of having been fixed upon for the presentation of a piece of plate 

 to Mr Tod, the highly valued Secretary of the Society. It had been for 

 a considerable time the unanimous feeling of the members of the Society 

 that their great and growing prosperity was chiefly owing to the indefa- 

 tigable assiduity of the Secretary, his diligence and discrimination in the 

 discharge of his duty, and the tact which he displayed in reconciling par- 

 tics of different and sometimes opposite views, so as to unite them all in 

 the promotion of the objects of this society. Tlie President, Council, 

 ai.d Members, had accordingly carried the general wish into execution. 

 On this evening, Sir John Graham Dalyell, supported by the office-bear- 

 ers and a most numerous meeting of the members of the Society, present- 

 ed the plate to Mr Tod, and in doing so. Sir John spoke as follows, with 

 his usual animated kindness of manner and manly tone of moral feeling : 

 He adverted to the flourishing state of the Society, and the numerous and 

 valuable inventions and communications which its proceedings occasion- 

 ally elicited. He ascribed much of its prosperity to the dihgence, zeal, and 

 activity of their most meritorious Secretary', Mr James Tod. For above 

 ten years his gratuitous services had been unremittingly devoted for its 

 benefit, and tlurough their medium, for behoof of the public. Nor was 

 this an easy task, considering the great variety of matters brought under 

 view> and the copious details respecting thein> of which the proceedings 



