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of Edinburgh^ Session 1865-66. 
for the triennial period 1862-65 to Andkew Crombie Eamsay, F.E.S., 
Professor of G-eology in the Grovernment School of Mines, and 
Local Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, for his 
various works and memoirs published during the last five years, 
in which he has applied the large experience acquired by him in 
the Direction of the arduous work of the Geological Survey of 
Great Britain to the elucidation of important questions bearing on 
Geological Science. 
The following Gentlemen were duly elected Fellows of the 
Society : — 
Fraser Thomson, M.D., Perth. 
John M'Culloch, Esq. 
T. Grainger Stewart, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
Joseph M. Joseph, M.D., F.E.C.P.E, 
Colonel Sir James Alexander of Westerton. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced - 
Transactions of the Eoyal Irish Academy. Antiquities, Yol. XXIV. 
Parts 2-4:. Science, Yol. XXI Y. Parts 4 and 6. Literature, 
Yol. XXIY. Part 2. Dublin, 1864-65. 4to.— AVom the 
Academy. 
Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy. Yols. YII., YIII., 
IX. Part 1. Dublin, 8vo. — From the Academy. 
Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. Yol. XYII. 
Bombay, 1865. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Advocates’ Library. Part 
II. Edinburgh, 1864. 4to. — From the Library. 
On the Mechanical Principles of the Action of Propellers. By 
Professor W. J. Macquorn Eankine, LL.D. 4to. — From the 
Author. 
Observations on the Functions of the Liver. By Eobert M‘DonnelI, 
M.D. Dublin, 1865. 8vo. — From the Author. 
Monthly Notices of the Eoyal Astronomical Society. Yol. XXYI. 
No. 1. London, 1865. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Proceedings of the Eoyal Geographical Society. Yol. X. No. 1. 
London, 1865. 8vo. — From the Society. 
