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and as editor and contributor to scientific and literary 

 journals, he had been for many years indefatigably prolific. 

 When in 1838 he received the dignified office of Principal 

 of the University of St. Andrews, he obtained in that calm 

 retreat, for more than a quarter of a century, the leisure 

 which he put to so useful a purpose. Abundant proof 

 had come to him of the respect and appreciation of his 

 scientific contemporaries. The Royal Society in particular 

 had bestowed upon him all the honours it could give. In 

 1815 it elected him one of its Fellows and awarded him its 

 Copley Medal. Three years later it decerned to him the 

 Rumford Medal and in 1830 one of the Royal Medals. 

 He had seen the British Association, which he helped 

 to found, grow into a powerful and beneficent institution 

 for the advancement of science. There was work still in 

 the future for him to do. He was yet to be the Principal 

 and Vice-Chancellor of his Alma Mater, the University of 

 Edinburgh. He died in the spring of 1868 at the ripe age 

 of eighty-seven. 



Captain Edward Augustus Ingleneld, introduced by 

 Admiral Beaufort, had been prominent in the search for 

 Franklin among the Arctic seas. He was with the Fleet 

 in the Black Sea during the Crimean war, and afterwards 

 had commands in the Channel and the Mediterranean. His 

 last sea appointment was that of commander-in-chief on 

 the North American station. He reached the rank of 

 admiral in 1879. Among the guests who had previously 

 visited the Club General Monteith and Captain Young- 

 husband reappeared, John Delane still enlivened the Club 

 with his talk, and William Hopkins was again welcomed. 



1854. The Anniversary Meeting in 1854 was held on 

 June 22nd and was attended by twenty-two members, 

 the Earl of Rosse, President, in the chair. The Treasurer 

 reported that the expenses of the Club since the last Anni- 

 versary had amounted to 97, that he had a balance in his 

 hands of 12 143. nd., and that there were no arrears of 

 payment by the members. The question of non-attendance 

 came up again for consideration. It appeared that five 



