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sion what may be fairly stated from this chair regarding one whose 
communications to our meetings were numerous, singularly lucid, 
and always received with marked attention ; whose criticisms invari- 
ably restored animation when our interest threatened to flag ; and 
whose strictures, if they sometimes cut rather deep, never failed to 
strike out new ideas from any adversary who was worthy of his 
lance. It is in these capacities that we who are now here assembled 
will long fondly recall him, and lament his removal from our circle, 
and feel that it will be hard to supply his place. 
The following Communication was read : — - 
Excursions in the Troad, with observations on its Topo- 
graphy and Antiquities. Part I. By Dr William Ro- 
bertson, F.R.C.P. Communicated by Dr J. Y. Simpson. 
The following Candidates were elected Ordinary Fellows : — • 
Dr Williamson, of Leith, F.R.C.S. Ed. 
Dr Malcolm, F.R.C.P. Ed. 
Dr James Duncan, F.R.C.S. Eng. and Ed. 
The following Donations to the Library were announced 
Scheikundige Verhandelingen en Onderzoekingen door G. J. Mul- 
der. Eerste Deele. Rotterdam, 1857. 8vo. — From the 
Dutch Government. 
List of Members of the Institute of Actuaries. 8vo. — * From the 
Institute. 
Letter to Lord Viscount Palmerston on Medical Reform. By John 
G. M. Burt. Edinburgh, 1857- 8vo. — From the Author. 
Collection of Admiralty Charts, and relative Lists, and other Docu- 
ments. From the Lords of Admiralty. 
Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club. Vol. iv., Part 1. 
8 vo. — From the Club. 
Notices of the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of 
Great Britain. Part 7. 8vo. — From the Society. 
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 
Vol. ix. London, 1857. 8vo. 
Charts of Track-Survey of the Rivers Salado, Parana, and Colastine. 
By Commander Thomas J. Page, U.S.S. Water Witch. 1855. 
— From the Author. 
Annalen der Koniglichen Sternwarte bei Munich. Band ix. 
8vo. — From the Observatory . 
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