PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, 
VOL. X. 
1878-79. No. 103. 
Ninety-Sixth Session. 
Monday, 2 Qth November 1878. 
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON in the Chair. 
The following Council were elected : — 
Preside7it. 
Professor KELLAND, M.A. 
Honorary Vice-Presidents. 
His Grace the DUKE of ARGYLL. 
Sir ROBERT CHRISTISON, Bart., M.D. 
Sir WILLIAM THOMSON, Knt., LL.D. 
Vice-Presidents. 
David Stevenson, Memb. Inst. C.E. I David Milne Home, LL.D. 
The Right Rev. Bishop Cotterill. Sir 0 . Wyville Thomson, LL.D. 
Principal Sir Alex. Grant, Bart. | Prof. Douglas Maclagan, M.D. 
General Secretary — Dr John Hutton Balfour. 
Secretaries to Ordinary Meetings. 
Professor Tait. 
Professor Turner. 
Treasurer — David Smith, Esq. 
Curator of Library and Museum — Alexander Buchan, M.A. 
Professor Fleemtng Jenkin. 
Rev. R. Boog Watson. 
Dr Hugh Cleghorn. 
Professor T. R. Fraser. 
Professor Rutherford. 
Dr R. M. Ferguson. 
Councillors. 
Rev. W. Lindsay Alexander, D.D. 
Dr Thomas A. G. Balfour. 
J. Y. Buchanan, M.A. 
Rev. Thomas Brown. 
Robert Gray. 
Dr William Robertson. 
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