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STATUTORY MEETING. 



HUNDRED AND FOURTH SESSION. 

 Monday, 22nd November 1886. 



At a General Statutory Meeting, 



Mr Gray in the Chair. 



The Secretary read apologies for absence from the Earl of Haddington, Sir Douglas 

 Maclagan, and Professor MTntosh. 



The Minutes of last General Statutory Meeting of 23rd November 1885 were read, 

 approved, and signed. 



The Secretary intimated that Voting Papers as to the Hour of Meeting had been issued 

 to the Fellows of the Society in the following form, with the result now declared : — 



I. Hour of Meeting to remain as hitherto, 110 



II. Hour to be changed from 8 p.m. to 4 p.m., .... 50 

 III. One of the Meetings in each Month to be held at 4 p.m., the 



other at 8 p.m., 83 



It was stated on behalf of the Council that occasional extra Meetings, to be held at 4 p.m., 

 would be introduced when a sufficient number of Communications happened to be in the 

 Secretary's hands. 



The Chairman named Mr Andrew Young and Professor Duns as Scrutineers of the 

 Balloting Lists. They reported that the following Council was unanimously elected : — 



Sir William Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S., President. 



A. Forbes Irvine, Esq. of Drum, 



John Murray, Ph.D., 



David Milne Home, LL.D., 



> Vice-Presidents. 

 Professor Sir Douglas Maclagan, 



The Hon. Lord Maclaren, 



The Rev. Professor Flint, D.D., 



Professor Tait, M.A., General Secretary. 



Professor Sir Wm. Turner, F.R.S., ) 



Professor Crum Brown, F.R.S., J Secretaries to 0rdinar y Meetin S s - 



Adam Gillies Smith, Esq., C.A., Treasurer. 



Alexander Buchan, Esq., M.A., Curator of Library and Museum. 



