6 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



M. Von Humboldt, Berlin. 

 M. Freiesleben, Tlmringia. 

 M. H. Meuder, Freyberg. 

 M. Herder, Freyberg. 



Such then was the institution of the Werner i an Society. 



On the 20th January 1808, the laws- of the Society were 

 drawn up by a committee. 



In regard to resident members it is ruled that the number 

 shall not exceed 100; and in regard to honorary members 

 that they shall not exceed 10. 



The meetings were held in the College Museum, or in a 

 room adjoining to it, at two o'clock in the afternoon. 



All natural history specimens presented to this Society were 

 to be deposited in the College Museum. 



A charter or seal of cause was subsequently obtained from 

 the Town-Council, and the Society was incorporated on 10th 

 February 1808, under the name of the Wernerian Natural 

 History Society. 



The first meeting for public business took place on 2d 

 March 1808, in the College Museum. 



The record of the proceedings of the Society from that time 

 up to April 21, 1838, is printed as an appendix to the published 

 Memoirs of the Society, vols, ii.-vii. 



In these volumes valuable papers are given on various de- 

 partments of Natural History. 



Among the contributors of Papers we may notice the fol- 

 lowing : — In Geology and Mineralogy — Professor Jameson, 

 Mr Bald, Dr Fleming, Dr Macknight, M. Haidinger, Dr 

 Adam, M. Boue, Mr George Anderson, Mr Trevelyan, Dr Hib- 

 bert, Mr Witham, Mr R. J. Hay Cunningham, Mr James 

 Smith, and Mr Torrie. In Chemistry — Dr Thomas Thomson, 

 and Dr Murray. In Botany — Mr Robert Brown (one of 

 his early papers on the Natural Order Asclepiadese was read 

 on 4th November 1809), Messrs David and George Don, Mr 

 R. K. Greville, Dr Walker Arnott, Mr Macgillivray, Mr Mar- 

 shall, Mr Francis Hamilton, Rev. Dr Scot. In Zoology and 

 Comparative Anatomy — Mr Montague, Dr Fleming, Mr Neill, 

 Dr Barclay, Mr Leach, Mr Thomas Brown, Mr James Wilson, 



