PROCEEDINGS 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
VOL. VII. 
1870-71. 
No. 82. 
Eighty-Eighth Session. 
Monday, 2 8th November 1870. 
Dr CHRISTISON, President, in the Chair. 
The following Council were elected 
President. 
Professor CHRISTISON, M.D., D.C.L, 
Honorary Vice-President. 
HiS Grace the DUKE of ARGYLL, 
Vice-Presidents. 
David Milne Home, LL.D. 
Professor Kelland. 
The Hon. Lord Neayes. 
Professor Sir William Thomson. 
William Forbes Skene, LL.D. 
Principal Sir Alex. Grant, Bart. - 
General Secretary - — Dr John Hutton Balfour. 
Secretaries to the Ordinary Meetings * 
Professor Tait. 
Professor Turner. 
Treasurer — David Smith, Esq. 
Ourator of Library avd Museum— Dr MacLagan, 
Councillors 
Dr James M‘Bain, R.N. 
Dr William Robertson. 
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., C.E. 
Dr Handyside. 
Archibald Geikie, Esq. 
Professor A. Crum Brown. 
Rev. Dr W. Lindsay Alexander. 
Professor Fleeming Jenkin. 
Prof. Wyville Thomson, LL.D. 
James Donaldson, LL.D. 
Dr Thomas R. FraseR. 
Dr Arthur Gamgee. 
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