1902 - 3 .] 
Meetings of the Society 
595 
FIRST ORDINARY MEETING. 
Monday , 3rd November 1902. 
The Hon. Lord McLaren, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman made the following opening Statement : — 
During the past Session 57 communications were read to the 
Society. Of these, 13 belonged to the department of Physics, 14 
to Mathematics, 7 to Chemistry, 4 to Astronomy, 4 to Physiology, 
3 to Natural History, 2 to Geology, 2 to Botany, 2 to Ocean- 
ography, 2 to Meteorology, 1 to Medicine, and 1 to Mineralogy. 
There were more than the usual number of Candidates for 
admission into the Society during the past Session, 24 Ordinary 
Fellows having been elected. There were also elected four 
Foreign Honorary Fellows and two British Honorary Fellows. 
The total number of Ordinary Fellows on the roll of the Society 
at the present time is 539; at the corresponding date last year 
the number was 528. 
The Society has to lament the loss by death, within the year, 
of eleven Ordinary Fellows and one Foreign Honorary Fellow. 
Ordinary Fellows : — 
Sir Thomas Boyd. 
Sheriff Vary Campbell. 
Mr John Christie. 
Col. J. H. B. Hallen. 
Major-General Sir John Hills. 
Mr Robert Irvine. 
Mr Alexander H. Lee, C.E. 
Mr W. Ivison Macadam. 
Mr John M. M‘Candlish, W.S. 
Dr R. Peel Ritchie, 
and 
Mr J. A. Wenley. 
Foreign Honorary Fellow : — 
Professor Rudolf Virchow. 
Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd was born at Leith in 1818, and at 
an early age became connected with the old publishing house of 
Oliver & Boyd. Some time afterwards he became a member of 
the firm, and later — in 1843 — senior managing partner. Though 
only twenty-five years of age when he assumed direction of the 
firm, the business of Oliver & Boyd, particularly as publishers of 
educational works, grew rapidly, and attained a prominent place 
in the trade. 
