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logy at Greneva, was born there in 1786, and died at Portree, in the 
Isle of Skye, on the 20th November 1862, in his seventy-sixth year. 
Mr Necker was far more intimately connected with this country 
and with this Society than our foreign members usually are ; indeed 
he might be called a naturalised Scotchman, and he contributed 
papers to our Transactions. It was my intention to have entered 
on his biography here at some length. Put I think it will be best 
to bring before the Society in a separate form the facts and re- 
miniscences which I have to affer. 
On our home list, we have to lament the loss of 12 of our Ordi- 
nary Fellows ; a considerable number of whom had, however, also 
attained the full term of human life. Their names are, — Eobert 
Paid, John Cockburn, Norwich Duff, James Forsyth, James P. 
Fraser, John Fyfe, J. Purn Murdoch, James Eussell,* John Eussell, 
Thomas Stewart Traill, James Walker, and Alex. Maconochie 
Welwood. 
To replace these we reckon also 12 new Fellows, — namely, Profes- 
sor Archer, Eev. W. Gr. Plaikie, Mr Henry Oheyne, Mr Nicholas A. 
Dalzell, Mr A. M. Edwards, Eev. V. Gr. Faithful, Dr James Hector, 
Dr J. P. Macartney, Dr W. P. Mackinlay, Mr Edward F. Maitland 
(now Lord Parcaple), Dr E. Eonalds, and Eev. Eobert P. Watson. 
Our numbers, therefore, remain the same as last year. 
I must confine myself to a very short obituary notice of a few of 
our deceased Fellows who showed most interest in the proceedings 
of the Society. 
The senior in standing as a Fellow was Mr Alexander Maconochie 
Welwood, better known during his active life here as Lord Mea- 
dowbank. His father also bore the same title ; and was a man 
of much acuteness, and an original Fellow of this Society. The 
late Mr Maconochie Welwood was born in March 1777, he joined 
the Faculty of Advocates in 1799, was made Lord Advocate in 
1816, and a Judge in 1819. He retired from the Pench in 1843. 
He joined this Society in 1817, but was not, so far as I know, a 
contributor to our Proceedings. He, however, took an interest in 
them, and for many years attended the meetings regularly. He 
had a large circle of acquaintances in and out of the Society ; and 
^ W]io died since the Annual Lists were made up. 
