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Monday , 3 d December I860. 
His Grace tlie Duke of Argyll, President, delivered the 
following Opening Address : — 
One of the duties which devolve upon me to-night, and one with 
which it is perhaps best that I should begin, is the melancholy duty 
of recording the names of those whom death has separated from our 
fellowship during the Session 1859-60. They are as follows:— 
William Alexander, Esq. 
Dr James Andrew. 
Rt. Hon. Lord Arbuthnot. 
Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart, 
Dr George Buist. 
Hon.Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
Sir James Forrest, Bart. 
Sir John Hall, Bart. 
John Lizars, Esq. 
Sir John Melville. 
Dr George Wilson. 
The Fellows elected in Session 1859-60 are eight,— 
Dr William Robertson. 
Dr Frederick Guthrie. 
J. Alfred Wanklyn, Esq. 
Professor MacDougall. 
George A. Jamieson, Esq. 
Rev. Leonard S. Orde. 
Patrick Dudgeon, Esq. 
William Chambers, Esq. 
Total Number of Fellows for 1859 , . . 256 
„ „ 1860 , . . 253 
I grieve to add, that the last twenty-four hours has added to the 
list of deaths the distinguished name of the Rev. Dr James Robert- 
son, Professor of Church History in the University of Edinburgh. 
As I rejoice to hear that a detailed memoir of our late President 
is to be communicated to the Society at a later period, I shall not 
feel it incumbent on me to do more than trace the main outlines of 
his public career. 
Sir T. Brisbane was descended from an ancient and honourable 
family, whose representative occupied the high place of Chancellor 
of Scotland in the middle of the fourteenth century. He was born 
in 1773, and entered the army in 1789. A contemporary of 
Arthur Wellesley, he was early thrown into his society in Ireland ; 
