PROCEEDINGS OF STATUTORY GENERAL MEETINGS. 



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Monday, January 6, 1862. 



At a meeting of the Society, held on Monday 6th January 1862, the Hon. Lord 

 Neaves in the Chair, the following Address to Her Majesty, expressing the sorrow of the 

 Society on the death of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, was read and adopted : — 



To THE Queen. 



May it please your Majesty, 



We, the President and Fellows of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, beg leave most 

 humbly to offer to your Majesty the sincere expression of our condolence for the great 

 bereavement which your Majesty has sustained, and of our grief for the great loss which 

 has befallen the nation by the death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who, by his 

 exemplary discharge of every duty, by his sympathy with the feelings, and his solicitude 

 for the welfare, of his adopted country, and by his unwearied efforts to promote the progress 

 of Learning, Science, Industry, and Art, had won for himself the I'ust admiration, esteem, 

 and gratitude of the whole community. 



That in this heavy affliction, your Majesty may be supported by the consolations of 

 religion, by the honoured memory of the departed, by the reverence and affection of your 

 Majesty's children, and by the devotion of a loyal and united people, who recognise in your 

 Majesty's government the great source and security, under Providence, of the high degree 

 of prosperity and happiness which they enjoy, is the prayer of your Majesty's most dutiful 

 subjects and servants. 



Signed in name and by authority of this Society, by his Grace the Duke of Argyll , 

 President. 



(Signed) E. Christison, V.P. 



Monday, January 20, 1862. 



At a meeting of the Society, held on Monday 20th January 1862, James T. Gibson- 

 Craig, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair, the following reply to the Address to Her Majesty 

 Avas read : — 



Whitehall, VMh Januarij 1862. 



My Lord Duke, 



I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the loyal and dutiful Address of the 

 President and Fellows of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, on the occasion of the deatli 



