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Professor Sir T. Grainger Stewart held for twenty-three years 
the position of Professor of the Practice of Medicine, and he 
worthily maintained the high traditions of the Chair of Cullen, 
Gregory, and Alison. 
Professor Piazzi Smyth published works on the Great 
Pyramid which have attracted much notice both in this country 
and the United States, and his spectroscopic studies and 
researches are of great cosmical interest. 
Adam Gillies Smith discharged with great acceptance the duties 
of Treasurer of the Society. 
Robert Halliday Gunning, LL.D., Grand Dignitary of the 
Order of the Rose of Brazil, the munificent founder of the Prize 
which bears his name, will be long affectionately remembered for 
his genial and unassuming disposition, and for his many deeds of 
enlightened beneficence. 
Dr John Anderson, a native of this city, and a distinguished 
graduate of our University, was from 1865 to 1886 Superintendent 
of the Indian Museum at Calcutta. He was the author of several 
valuable works on the Vertebrata of India, Siam, Arabia, and 
Egypt. 
David Bruce Peebles, an able Engineer. 
Peter Maclagan of Pumpherston, formerly Member of Parlia- 
ment for Linlithgowshire. 
The Society having been invited to send two Delegates to 
represent it at the celebration of the Bicentenary of the Royal 
Prussian Academy, Dr Burgess and Dr Traquair were appointed 
the Society’s representatives. At a meeting of the Academy 
convened to receive the congratulations of the Delegates from 
Societies, the following Address was presented and read in the 
name of the Society : — 
In the name, and by the authority, of the Council of the 
Royal Society op Edinburgh, we hereby offer our warmest 
congratulations to the Royal Academy op Sciences of Prussia 
on the attainment of its two hundredth anniversary. 
We rejoice to recognise that the Royal Academy of Sciences 
of Prussia stands in the very front rank of the Learned Societies 
of the world. Alike in mathematics and physics, in history, 
