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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  STATUTORY 
  GENERAL 
  MEETINGS, 
  

  

  COUNSELLORS. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Kelland. 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  Hannah. 
  

  

  Dr 
  J. 
  Y. 
  Simpson. 
  Dr 
  Anderson. 
  

  

  His 
  Grace 
  the 
  Duke 
  of 
  Argyll. 
  Robert 
  Chambers, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  Hon. 
  Lord 
  Ivory. 
  J. 
  T. 
  Gibson-Craig, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  Rev. 
  Dr 
  Fleming. 
  Wm. 
  Swan, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Goodsir. 
  Professor 
  William 
  Thomson. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  Committee 
  was 
  appointed 
  to 
  audit 
  the 
  Treasurer's 
  accounts 
  : 
  — 
  

   J. 
  T. 
  Gibson-Craig, 
  Esq., 
  W.S. 
  James 
  Walker, 
  Esq., 
  W.S. 
  William 
  T. 
  Thomson, 
  Esq. 
  

  

  The 
  Meeting 
  then 
  adjourned. 
  

  

  (Signed) 
  John 
  Russell. 
  

  

  Memorandum. 
  — 
  November 
  24, 
  1851. 
  — 
  At 
  a 
  Statutory 
  General 
  Meeting 
  of 
  this 
  date, 
  

   John 
  Russell, 
  Esq., 
  Treasurer, 
  in 
  the 
  Chair, 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  M. 
  Brisbane, 
  Bart., 
  

   to 
  the 
  Secretary 
  was 
  read, 
  stating 
  that 
  as, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  illness 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  family, 
  he 
  in- 
  

   tended 
  passing 
  the 
  winter 
  in 
  England, 
  he 
  considered 
  it 
  right 
  to 
  tender 
  his 
  resignation 
  as 
  

   President 
  of 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  moved 
  by 
  the 
  Chairman, 
  and 
  unanimously 
  agreed 
  to, 
  that 
  " 
  the 
  Meeting 
  should 
  

   direct 
  the 
  Secretary 
  to 
  express 
  to 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  M. 
  Brisbane 
  their 
  regret 
  at 
  the 
  cause 
  which 
  

   is 
  likely 
  to 
  prevent 
  his 
  attendance 
  this 
  session 
  ; 
  but, 
  as 
  they 
  trust 
  that 
  this 
  cause 
  will 
  be 
  

   temporary, 
  they 
  would 
  request 
  him 
  to 
  withdraw 
  his 
  resignation, 
  and 
  hope 
  that 
  at 
  a 
  future 
  

   period 
  he 
  will 
  be 
  able 
  to 
  resume 
  the 
  Chair, 
  the 
  duties 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  so 
  ably 
  discharged." 
  

  

  Memorandum. 
  — 
  December 
  12, 
  1851. 
  — 
  At 
  a 
  Meeting 
  of 
  Council 
  of 
  this 
  date, 
  the 
  acting 
  

   General 
  Secretary 
  read 
  extract 
  of 
  letter 
  from 
  Sir 
  T. 
  M. 
  Brisbane 
  to 
  Professor 
  Forbes, 
  

   in 
  which 
  he 
  expressed 
  his 
  compliance 
  with 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  first 
  Gene- 
  

   ral 
  Meeting 
  of 
  this 
  session, 
  that 
  he 
  would 
  withdraw 
  his 
  resignation 
  of 
  the 
  Presidentship 
  

   which 
  he 
  had 
  then 
  tendered. 
  

  

  Memorandum. 
  — 
  January 
  5, 
  1852. 
  — 
  At 
  an 
  Ordinary 
  Meeting 
  of 
  this 
  date, 
  Sir 
  D. 
  Brew- 
  

   ster, 
  V.P., 
  in 
  the 
  Chair, 
  a 
  Memorial 
  to 
  the 
  Lords 
  of 
  the 
  Treasury 
  regarding 
  the 
  formation 
  

   in 
  Edinburgh 
  of 
  a 
  Museum 
  of 
  Economic 
  Geology, 
  and 
  praying 
  for 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  Geolo- 
  

   gical 
  Survey 
  to 
  Scotland, 
  was 
  read 
  and 
  approved 
  of, 
  and 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  transmitted, 
  after 
  

   signature 
  by 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  M. 
  Brisbane, 
  to 
  the 
  Treasury. 
  

  

  N.B. 
  — 
  The 
  Memorial 
  above 
  referred 
  to 
  was 
  transmitted 
  accordingly, 
  and 
  its 
  receipt 
  

   acknowledged, 
  on 
  13th 
  February 
  1852, 
  by 
  Mr 
  George 
  Cornwall 
  Lewis, 
  the 
  Secretary 
  to 
  

   the 
  Treasury. 
  

  

  Monday, 
  November 
  22, 
  1852. 
  

  

  At 
  a 
  Statutory 
  General 
  Meeting, 
  Right 
  Rev. 
  Bishop 
  Terrot, 
  V.P., 
  in 
  the 
  Chair, 
  the 
  

   following 
  Office-Bearers 
  were 
  duly 
  elected 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  

  