PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
VOL. V. 1862-63. No. 61. 
Monday^ 2d March 1863. 
Principal Sir DAYID BEEWSTEK, Yice-President, 
in the Chair. 
In presenting the Neill Prize, the Chairman made the 
following remarks : — 
Before presenting the Neill Medal to Dr G-reville, in conformity 
with the decision of the Council, it may be proper for the informa- 
tion of strangers, and even of many Fellows of the Society, to give 
a brief notice of the bequest to science which was made by the late 
Dr Patrick Neill. 
Although Dr Neill was a member of this Society, he never took 
an active part in its proceedings, and I believe never communicated 
any paper to its Transactions. He was one of the founders of the 
Wernerian Society, and discharged the duties of its Secretary during 
the thirty years of its existence under the able presidency of Pro- 
fessor Jameson. The Wernerian Society was, indeed, the rival of 
the Koyal Society of Edinburgh, and its seven volumes of Trans- 
actions contain many papers by distinguished writers which would 
otherwise have been communicated to this Society. 
Dr Neills first publication appeared in 1806, and was entitled 
“ A Tour through some of the Islands of Orkney and Shetland.” 
In 1829 he published his “Horticultural Tour in Flanders,” and in 
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