CHAPTER LXII. 



TREASURERS AND PRINXIPAL OR HONORARY SECRETARIES. 



We include in this chapter a notice of the gentlemen who 

 have filled the offices of Treasurer and Principal or Honorary- 

 Secretary. 



Treasurers to the Society. 



I. Mr David Steuart, Banker, Edinburgh, was, on 

 the institution of the Society in 1784, nominated Treasurer 

 of the Society. On Mr Steuart changing his residence 

 from Edinburgh some time afterwards, the office of Trea- 

 surer was discontinued, and the business of that department 

 was undertaken by the Secretary. 



n. Mr William Macdonald of St Martins, who 

 had previously acted as Principal Secretary from the 

 Society's institution till 1804, was, on his resignation of 

 that office, elected Treasurer at the General Meeting on 

 2nd July 1804, and held the appointment till the time of 

 his death, which happened on 17th May 1814. His merits 

 in both these capacities were so distinguished, and his 

 services so eminently useful to the Society, that his memory 

 will be permanently honoured in the recollection of the 

 Society. The honours which at the moment it could pay, 

 it was anxious to show in a manner the most marked and 

 conspicuous. A Committee of its Directors was appointed 

 to attend his remains to the Queensferry, on their way to 

 his family burial place at St Martins, in Perthshire ; and 

 the first General Meeting after his decease, instructed the 

 Directors to take such measures as they should deem most 

 expedient for raising .some lasting memorial of his worth, 

 and of the value which the Society attached to his services. 

 This instruction of the Society was obeyed by erecting a 

 monument, with an appropriate inscription, in the church 

 of St Martins, where his remains were interred. 



