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regret to say that during the year which is about to close, our 
losses have been unusually severe, not only when reckoned numeri- 
cally, but when measured by the talent and reputation of the col- 
leagues we have lost. 
Of our foreign Honorary Fellows we have lost two, Frederick 
George William Struve of Pulkowa, and Professor Encke of Berlin. 
Of our Honorary Home Fellows we have lost three — Sir John 
Eichardson, Sir William Jackson Hooker, and Sir William Eowan 
Hamilton. Of our Ordinary Fellows we have lost seven : — Mr 
James Skene of Kubislaw; Professor Aytoun ; Sir John Maxwell of 
Pollock, Bart. ; Sir William A. Maxwell of Calderwood, Bart. ; Dr 
Maclagan ; Sheriff Gordon ; and Dr Thomas Herbert Barker, Bed- 
ford. Two Fellows of the Society have resigned — Mr G. E. Mait- 
land, and the Eev. Dr Hisbet. The names of two Fellows have 
been cancelled — Mr A. Mackenzie Edwards, and Mr Alfred 
Wanklyn. Two of the Fellows in our last list should have been 
transferred to the list of British Honorary Fellows — Dr Thomas 
Graham, Master of the Mint ; and Sir J ohn F. W. Herschel. 
The following seven new Fellows have been elected : — Messrs 
Alfred E. Catton, Charles Jenner, Charles Lawson, junr.. Dr John 
Moir, James Powrie, Eev. Francis Eedford, and James Stevenson. 
Upon our roll for 1864 we had Ordinary Fellows, . 279 
Of these 7 have died, 2 have resigned, 2 have been can- 
celled, and 2 have been placed on the honorary list, . 13 
Leaving ......... 266 
Hew Ordinary Fellows elected, 7 
Total Ordinary Fellows on our list, . . . 273 
In proceeding to give a brief, but necessarily imperfect account 
of the colleagues we have lost, I must plead the difficulty of obtain- 
ing the requisite information so soon after their decease. On the 
present occasion, the duty is one of delicacy also, as I have been in 
personal communication with all of them but one, and with some 
in relations of a warmer kind. It is likewise one of some solemnity 
when discharged by one who, with a single exception, is senior 
to them all. 
