Chairman’s Opening Address. 
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“ The Harmonies,” and “ The Sophisms.” For his literary labours 
he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of St Andrews. 
He died 23rd March 1891. 
Dr James Sanderson was born in Dunbar in 1812 and received 
his medical education at the University of Edinburgh. In 1832 he 
was appointed to the Medical Staff of the Madras Service, and was 
placed on the retired list in 1863. He was elected a Fellow of this 
Society in 1863, and for many years held the office of Treasurer to 
the Scottish Meteorological Society. He died in April 1891. 
Sir John Hawkshaw was born and educated as an engineer at 
Leeds. When only twenty years of age he undertook the manage- 
ment of the Bolivar Copper Mines in South America. On his 
return to England he was successively engineer to the Manchester 
and Bolton Canal and Bailway Company, and to the Lancashire and 
Yorkshire Bailway. The Severn Tunnel is considered his greatest 
achievement in engineering, from the difficulties that had to be 
overcome. He proposed to connect England with the Continent 
by means of a Submarine Tunnel. He was knighted in 1873, and 
was President of the meeting of the British Association at Bristol 
in 1875. He died in his 81st year. 
Mr John Turnbull of Abbey St Bathans was born in 1820. He 
was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and at the age of 21 
passed as a Writer to the Signet. As an Archaeologist and 
Naturalist, his attainments were far above the average ; and he 
had so refined a taste, and so deft a hand as an artist, that had he 
not been a country gentleman and a professional man of law, he 
might readily have gained for himself an honourable place among 
the limners of his native land. He spent a year in Egypt and 
Syria, and brought home a portfolio of sketches of great artistic 
merit. He died on 21st June last, deeply regretted by all who 
knew him, and especially by the people of Berwickshire, of which 
County he had for many years been Convener. Here is another of 
those for whom on the score of friendship and regard, I desire to 
add to my estimate of him as a worthy Fellow of the Boyal 
Society, a sincere tribute of my personal regret. 
The Bight Honourable John Inglis of Glencorse, President of the 
Court of Session, and Lord Justice General of Scotland, was the son 
of the Bev. Dr Inglis, and was born in Edinburgh in the year 1810, 
