of Edinburgh, Session 1882-83. 
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Brought forward, 431 
Deceased during Session 1881-82 — David 
Anderson, Esq. of Moredun ; Charles D. Bell, 
Esq. ; Dr John Brown ; Sir Robert Christi- 
son, Bart. ; Sir John Bose Cormack ; J. 
Anthony Dixon, Esq. ; Sheriff Frederick 
Hallard ; James Hay, Esq. ; William King, 
Esq. ; John McCulloch, Esq. ; Sir Daniel 
Macnee ; Dr Charles Morehead ; Dr John 
Muir; Richard Parnell, Esq. ; Samuel Raleigh, 
Esq. ; Dr William Robertson ; John Scott 
Russell, Esq. ; Professor Spence ; SirWyville 
Thomson ; James Walker, Esq. ; Robert 
Wilson, Esq. Deduct .21 
Total Number of Ordinary Fellows at November 1882, . 410 
Total Number of Honorary Fellows at November 1882, . 50 
Total Number of Fellows of the Society at November 1882, 460 
Obituary Notices were read of Charles Darwin, l^mile Plantamour, 
Charles Davidson Bell, Dr William Robertson, Sir Daniel Macnee, 
David Anderson, John McCulloch, Samuel Raleigh, and Professor 
James Spence, deceased Fellows of the Society. 
The following Communications were read:— 
1. Dr Guebhard’s Electro-Chemical Method of Figuring Equi- 
potential Lines. By Rev. Dr W. R. Smith. 
2. Message from the Nautical Almanac Office, in reference to 
the Transit of Venus, Dec. 6, 1882. Communicated by 
the Astronomer-Royal. 
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 
Uh December 1882. 
The following despatch has just been received from Mr J. R. 
Hind, Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, London : — 
“First external contact at 1 h. 48 m. 24 sec., mean time at 
Edinburgh ; the place of it being at 147° N. to E. for direct image. 
“First internal contact will be 21 minutes later.” 
The above notification indicates that the phenomena will occur 
5 minutes and a few seconds later than the times printed four years 
ago, under difficulties, in the Nautical Almanac. 
