PROCEE DINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
vol. iv. 1859-60. No. 52. 
Monday , 1 6th January 1860. 
The following Gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary Fellows:™- 
William Robertson, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
Frederick Guthrie, B.A., Ph. D. 
James A. Wanklyn, M.R.C.S. Lond. 
Monday , 6 th February 1860. 
Sir DAVID BREWSTER, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The death of General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Bart., 
G.C.B., President of the Society, was announced, as having taken 
place at Brisbane on 27th January ; thereupon the following motion 
was made by Lord Neaves, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, 
and unanimously agreed to : — 
“That the Society, at this its first meeting after the death of Sir 
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, should place upon record the expres- 
sion of its deep regret for that event, and its high estimate of the 
character of Sir Thomas Brisbane, who, besides other eminent public 
services, was during a long life conspicuous as a sincere lover and 
active promoter of science, and who so worthily presided over this 
Society for a period of twenty- seven years. 
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