476 Proceedings of the Royal Society 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 
Society : — 
William C. M‘Intosh, M.D. 
Henry Marshall, M.D., Clifton. 
William Rutherford, M.D. 
Monday, 1st February, 1869. 
The Hon. LOBD NEAYES, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Minute of Council was read : — 
“ The Council of the Royal Society desire to record in their minutes 
the grief which they have fell in the death of James D. Forbes, 
Esq., lately Principal of St Andrews University, and their sense 
of the loss thus sustained — of one who was so great an ornament to 
science, and so long and so intimately connected with this Society. 
As a scientific inquirer, and as an academical instructor, the name 
of Dr Forbes will be held in reverence by all who knew him, or who 
benefited by his exertions ; and it is a subject of deep regret that 
he should be cut off in the prime of life, and the scientific world 
deprived of his services at a time when his appointment as Princi- 
pal of St Andrews University had placed him in a position where, 
if life and health had allowed, he might, by his further labours, 
have added to his own reputation and to the range of scientific 
discovery. The Council cannot remember the able, assiduous, and 
conscientious services rendered to the Royal Society, when he held 
the appointment of their Secretary, without feeling how deep a 
debt of gratitude the Society owes him. The Council direct that a 
copy of this minute be transmitted to Mrs Forbes, with a suitable 
expression of their sympathy with her in her great affliction. The 
Council trust that Mrs Forbes will be sustained under her severe 
bereavement, and they are sure that if public and individual sym- 
pathy can assist in alleviating grief, that consolation will be 
afforded in no ordinary degree-” 
The Secretary announced the receipt of letters from Professors 
Kirchhoff and Virchow, thanking the Society for their election as 
Foreign Honorary Fellows. 
