469 
W. A. F. Browne, Esq. 
The Rev. Thomas Brown. 
R. E. Scoresby- Jackson, M D, 
James M‘Bain, M.D., R.N. 
Professor P. Guthrie Tait. 
John Muir, D.C.L. 
William Turner, M.B. 
W. L. Lindsay, M.D., F.L.S. 
James Lor er, Esq. 
Archd. Geikie, Esq., F G.S. 
William Handyside, Esq. 
George Berry, Esq. 
Thos. Herbert Barker, M.D. 
Robert Maclachlan, Esq. 
James Young, Esq. 
A. E. Mackay, M.D., R.N. 
Three members resigned during last year : — 
Andrew Murray, Esq. 
Brinsley de Courcy Nixon, Esq. 
Horatio Ross, Esq. 
Total Number of Fellows for 1860, 
„ „ 1861, 
including a member not inserted 
in last list, 
25 3 
259 
In glancing backwards on the proceedings of the last year, 
it is quite manifest that there has been no falling off in zeal 
and diligence amongst its members. Besides other business in 
connection with the objects for which the Society was embodied, 
thirty-three papers were read at the ordinary meetings. Seven were 
on subjects connected with Geology ; nine with Natural History or 
Physics ; seven with Chemistry and Chemical Analyses ; four with 
Magnetism or Electricity ; the rest were of a miscellaneous or 
biographical character. Without noting particular papers, it is 
quite enough to say of these communications that they are the 
result of deep study and careful experiment ; that they are fully in 
accordance with the high and advanced state of the several sciences 
to which each of them belongs. The only regret I have (a regret 
which I cannot help expressing) is, that we have not more papers 
of a literary character. Such papers would be quite in accordance 
with the original purpose and object of the Society. They would 
make a pleasing variety, I believe we might almost say a relaxation 
of attention towards the subjects with which our evenings are gene- 
rally occupied, and (perhaps this is my chief recommendation) they 
would call forth contributions from some of our members who have 
not given themselves to the study of physical sciences, but whose 
present inaction, session after session, we cannot but deplore. We 
regret to think that we have not occasionally papers on such ques- 
tions as Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, History, Classics, or 
Belles-Lettres, from Fellows of the Society, who, we are sure, could 
