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languages. He was one of the eminent galaxy of chemists that 
has rendered the Royal Institution so illustrious. The successor 
of Davy and colleague of Faraday could not have failed to have had 
a marked influence on the progress of chemistry ; and though he has 
not left behind him many original memoirs, he has certainly done 
much to diffuse a knowledge of that science, and to render its study 
attractive by the clearness of his exposition of its leading truths. 
The following statement respecting the Members of the Society 
was read by the Chairman : — 
I. Honorary Fellows — 
Royal Personages, . 2 
British Subjects, .... ... 19 
Foreign, 35 
Total Honorary Fellows, ... 56 
II. Non-Resident Member under Old Laws, ... 1 
III. Ordinary Fellows — 
Ordinary Fellows at November 1865, .... 273 
New Fellows , 1865-66 — Sir James E. Alexander, Adam Black, 
David Chalmers, W. D. Clark, Thomas Constable, David 
Douglas, Dr James Dunsmure, William Euing, James Fal- 
shaw, Joseph M. Joseph, Dr A. Keiller, Alexander Macduff, 
John M‘Culloch, John Macnair, Professor David Masson, Dr 
Arthur Mitchell, Dr Charles Morehead, Right Rev. Bishop 
Morrell, Thomas Nelson, Dr John Alexander Smith, 
Professor Spence, Dr Thomas Grainger Stewart, Dr Fraser 
Thomson, John K. Watson, Dr Patrick Heron Watson, 25 
298 
Deduct Deceased — William Bonar, William Thomas Brande, 
John Archibald Campbell, John Cay, Dr David Craigie, Dr 
James Duncan, Sir John H. S. Forbes, Dr R. Kaye Greville, 
Hon. Lord Ivory, Alexander Macduff, Rev. Dr Macfarlane, 
Charles Maclaren, Alan Stevenson, James Stevenson, 14 
Resigned — Alex. Christie, William Handyside, Dr J. P. Macart- 
ney, Dr Pagan, ........ 4 
Cancelled for Non-payment of Admission Fee — W. D. Clark, Dr 
Joseph, 2 
Cancelled for Non-payment of Annual Subscriptions — James 
Hannay, Dr M‘Kinlay, 2 
Total Deductions, 22 
Total Number of Ordinary Fellows at November 1866, 276 
