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Proceedings of the Royal Society 
1 . Foreign Honorary Fellow. — Le Comte de Remusat. 
2. British Honorary Fellows. — Sir Charles Lyell, Bart, of 
Kinnordy; Sir William Edmund Logan, LL.D.; Sir Charles 
Wheatstone, D.C.L. 
3. Ordinary Fellows. — Rev. Dr D. Aitken ; John Auld, Esq. ; 
Professor Hughes Bennett, Edinburgh University; Rev. 
Professor Crawford, Edinburgh University; Colonel Seton 
Guthrie, Thurso ; Sir William Jardine of Applegarth, Bart. ; 
Professor William Macdonald, St Andrews’ University; the 
Hon. Lord Mackenzie; Edward Meldrum, Esq., Dechmont; 
the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair. 
I propose to give an obituary notice of several in this list, with 
regard to whom I have succeeded in obtaining information, chiefly 
through the good offices of our Secretary, Professor Balfour. 
Charles, Comte de Remusat, a distinguished French poli- 
tician, philosopher, and man of letters, was horn at Paris on 
the 14th of March 1797. His father held various public 
offices under the first Empire. His mother was an intimate 
friend of the Empress Josephine. The young Remusat, after a 
brilliant course at the Lyc6e Napoleon, betook himself at first 
to the study of law, but he soon turned to literature, and wrote 
as a journalist in newspapers and reviews from 1818 till 1830. 
In company with Guizot, Cousin, and Jouffroy, he was on the 
staff of the “ Globe,” a periodical founded by Dubois in 1824, 
which struggled against the growing absolutism of the Restoration. 
He continued afterwards, in concert with Guizot, to support doc- 
trinaire constitutionalism, and in philosophy he was on the whole 
of the school of Cousin. His name appears in the list of journalists 
who protested against the ordinances which brought about the 
Revolution of July. In 1830, he was chosen deputy by Toulouse, 
and soon followed the leadership of Thiers in the Chamber. In 
1838, he was for a short time Under-Secretary of State in the 
ministry of Count Mole, and in 1840 he was Minister of the 
Interior, under Thiers. After the Revolution of 1848, he continued 
a member of the Constituent Assembly, and supported the party of 
order. During the whole period of the second Empire, he withdrew 
