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of Edinburgh^ Session 1862-63. 
Ever ready to rejoice at whatever affords a prospect of increased 
happiness to your Koyal Highness, and a further security for the 
continued sway of a Royal House which has conferred on this realm 
sa many benefits and blessings, we hail with especial interest and 
gratification the union of your Royal Highness with a daughter of 
an ancient nation, distinguished at all times for noble and generous 
qualities, and which holds a high place among the countries of 
Europe in literature and science ; and above all, we regard it as an 
unspeakable boon that the Royal Lady whom we now welcome to 
our shores is endowed with alllhose virtues and attractions which are 
best calculated to bless and adorn domestic life, to assist in cheering 
the widowed solitude of our beloved Sovereign, and to sustain in 
unsullied lustre the honour and dignity of the British Court. 
We earnestly hope and pray that this auspicious alliance may 
be productive of all the happiness with which we desire to see it 
attended. 
The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 
Society : — 
Chaeles Cowan, Esq. 
John Alexandee Smith, M.D. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 
VII. Ho. 2. 8 VO. — From the Society. 
Quarterly Report of the Meteorological Society of Scotland, for the 
quarter ending 31st December 1862. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol. XXIII. 
No. 5. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Notice sur la vie et les travaux de P. L. A. Cordier, Membre de 
ITnstitut, &c. &c. 8vo. — From the Author. 
Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society. April. 8vo. — 
From the Society. 
Monthly Return of the Births, Deaths, and Marriages, registered 
in the Eight Principal Towns of Scotland. March. 8vo. — 
From the Fegistrar-General. 
Journal of the Chemical Society. April. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society. Vol. I. No. 5. 
8 VO. — From the Society. 
