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Proceedings of the Hoy at Society 
Monday , 4 th December 1876. 
The Rev. W. Lindsay Alexander, D.D., one of the Vice- 
Presidents, at the request of the Council, gave the following 
Opening Address : — 
Gentlemen, — The Council having appointed me to deliver the 
address at the opening of this the ninety-fourth session of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, I have not felt myself at liberty to 
decline the appointment, though deeply conscious of my inability 
to discharge adequately the duty which has thus been laid upon 
me. 
I have, in the first instance, to advert to the changes which have 
taken place in the fellowship of the Society in the course of the 
past year. During that period the Society has lost by death nine 
of its Ordinary Fellows and three of its Foreign Honorary Fellows. 
These are by name — 
Thomas Login, Esq., C.E., India. 
Sir G-eorge Harvey, Kt., P.R.S.A. 
James Warburton Begbie, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
Lewis D. B. Gordon, Esq., C.E. 
David Bryce, Esq., Architect. 
George Stirling Home-Drummond of Blair-Drummond, Esq. 
Alexander Russel, Esq. 
Thomas Laycock, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 
The Most Noble the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T., G.C.B., &c. 
Adolphe Pictet, Geneva. 
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart, Paris. 
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Berlin. 
Fifteen new members were elected during the past year. 
The total number of Fellows of the Society at this date is 419, 
viz.— 
Ordinary Fellows, .... 363 
Honorary Fellows, .... 55 
Non-resident Fellow under the old law, 1 
419 
