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the Finance Committee of the Society, although Mr 

 Lamont's name was kept on the Hst as Convener. 



Admiral Sir William J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.B., 

 who joined as a member of the Society in 1859, was named 

 Chairman in 1863, the Directors having that year revived 

 a Standing Committee on the Fund. Sir William entered 

 the Na\y in 1811 ; was made Captain in 1823, Rear- 

 Admiral in 1853, Vice-Admiral in 1858, and full Admiral 

 in 1863 ; was Commander-in-Chief on the S.E. coast of 

 America from 1854 to 1857, and Commander-in-Chief at 

 Sheerness from July i860 to 1869. Sir William died July 

 II, 1878. 



Admiral Maitland Dougall of Scotscraig, Fifeshire, 

 was elected to the office of Chairman of the Committee in 

 charge of the Fund in Januarj^ 1879. 



Ordnance Survey. 



The Ordnance Survey of Scotland was commenced in 

 1809, but was discontinued during 1810, 181 1, and 1812. 

 It was recommenced in 181 3, and was languidly carried on 

 till 1823, when it was again suspended. In the years 1838, 

 1839, 1840, and 1 84 1, the principal triangulation was pro- 

 ceeded with. In 1840, it was agreed that the survey should 

 be resumed, and conducted on the 6-inch scale. After 

 much delay, the maps were at last commenced on the 

 I -inch and 6-inch scales, and on that system the counties of 

 Edinburgh, Haddington, Fife, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown 

 were published. While the work was in progress, it was 

 resolved that the cultivated parts of the country should, in 

 addition, be supplied with parish maps upon the 25-inch 

 scale, and upon that system all the counties of Scotland 

 have been published, except the five above referred to. 



The interruptions to which the Scotch Survey has been 

 subjected, and the changes of its scale have been so frequent, 

 that the Society has had to appear before Government more 

 frequently on this than on any other subject. It was in- 

 strumental, in 1838 and 1839, in obtaining for Scotland a 

 survey, as well as an engraved map, on the scale of six inches 

 to the mile. In 1841, the Society, for the first time in its 



