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Proceedings of the Royal Society 
Monday^ 1th Becemher 1863. 
Professor Innes, one of the Vice-Presidents, delivered the 
following Opening Address : — 
Gtentlemen, — -The opening of our Session requires that I should 
lay before you the state and prospects of our Society, which I hope 
may to some extent he considered the criteria of the state and 
prospects of the sciences which it cultivates. 
The Society has lost since the commencement of last Session by 
death, six Fellows, viz., — Eohert Allan, Esq., Beriah Botfield, Esq., 
Dr James Keith, Dr David Boswell Eeid, Professor Connell of 
St Andrews, Professor Mitscherlich of Berlin ; and by resignation, 
two, the Eev. Gr. Y. Faithfull and D. E. Hay, Esq. 
In room of whom the Society has elected twenty- five new Fellows, 
viz., — Professor Blackie, William Brand, Esq., W.S., Eobert Camp- 
bell, Esq., advocate, Dr Hugh F. C. Cleghorn, India, Charles 
Cowan, Esq., W. Dittmar, Esq., Dr J. Matthews Duncan, the 
Eight Hon. Lord Dunfermline, Professor Everett, Nova Scotia, 
James Hannay, Esq., William Jameson, Esq., India, Hon. Lord 
Jerviswoode, Charles Lawson, Esq., Hon. Gr. Waldegrave Leslie, 
Gr. E. Maitland, Esq., W.S., Edward Meldrum, Esq., Eev. Dr 
Nesbit, Hon. Lord Ormidale, David Page, Esq., Dr A. Peddie, 
James Sanderson, Esq., Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals, Dr John 
A. Smith, Dr Murray Thomson, Dr J. Gr. Wilson, Dr John Young. 
Our roll, therefore, stands thus : — The number of Fellows in 
1862 was 258, of which we have lost by death 6, by resignation 2 = 8, 
leaving 250. To which add the new Fellows, 25, making the 
whole number of the Fellows of our Society 275, a larger number 
than has appeared on the list for many years. 
I am enabled, chiefly through the active kindness of our Secre- 
taries, to offer a few notices of the members we have lost, during 
the past Session. 
Egbert Allan, son of Mr Thomas Allan, a banker in Edinburgh, 
a Fellow of the Society, and for many years Curator of its Museum 
and Library, and well known as an early and successful collector of a 
fine cabinet of minerals, was born in 1806, and educated at the High 
