576 Proceedings of General Meetings. 



case the Council shall decline to bring this recommendation before the Society, it 

 shall be competent for the proposers to bring the same before a General Meeting. 



" The election shall be by ballot, after the proposal has been communicated 

 viva voce from the Chair at one meeting, and printed in the circular for the meeting 

 at which the ballot is to take place. 



" Form of Recommendation. 



" We hereby recommend for the distinction of being made an 



Honorary Fellow; declaring that each of us, from his own knowledge of his services to 

 [Literature or Science, as the case may be'] believes him to be worthy of that honour. 

 " To the President and Council of the [Signatures of the three 



Royal Society of Edinburgh.'' 1 Ordinary Fellows.'] 



The motion having been put from the Chair in this form, it was carried unani- 

 mously. 



It was announced that the Council had adjudged the Keith Prize for the bien- 

 nial period, which had terminated with the last Session, to Professor Forbes, for his 

 paper on the Refraction and Polarization of Heat. 



February 15. 1836. 

 The Keith Prize for the most important discovery recorded in the Society's 

 Transactions during Jthe years 1834) and 1835, was presented, according to the 

 decision of the Council, to Professor Forbes, by Dr Hope, V. P. 



March 21. 1836. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 

 ORDINARY. 



David Rhinp, Esq. Architect. James Anderson, Esq. Civil-Engineer. 



April 18. 1836. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



ORDINARY. 



Martin Barry, M. D. Robert Stecart, Esq. M. P. 



May 2. 1836. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



ordinary. 

 Archibald Robertson, M.D., F. R. S. Alex. Gibson Carmichael, Esq. 



Macpherson Grant, Esq. younger Edward Sang, Esq. 



of Ballindalloch. Rev. Profess. Nichol, Univ. of Glasgow. 



