Meetings of the Society. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING. 
The 126th Session. 
At the Annual Statutory Meeting, Monday, 26th October 1908, 
Dr R. H. Traquair in the Chair, 
the Secretary explained that owing to commencement of the operations for the removal of the 
Society’s Library and other effects to the new premises in George Street, the Lecture Room in the 
Royal Institution was not available for this Statutory Meeting, nor for the Ordinary Meetings of 
the Society for the reading of Papers to be held in the months of November, December, and 
possibly January. 
By the courtesy of the University Court and of the Professor of Engineering it had been 
arranged that the Statutory Meeting and, until further notice, the Ordinary Meetings should take 
place in the class-room of the Engineering Laboratory, High School Yards, Infirmary Street. 
On the motion of Dr Peach, seconded by Dr Knott, Mr D. B. Dott and Mr G. H. Gulliver 
were appointed Scrutineers, and the ballot for the New Council commenced. 
The Treasurer’s Accounts for the past year were submitted. These, with the Auditor’s 
Report, were read and approved. 
On the motion of Dr Knott, seconded by Mr D. B. Dott, the following changes in the Laws 
of the Society, proposed by the Council, were unanimously adopted : — 
(1) That Law VIII. read : — “ All Ordinary Fellows of the Society who are not in arrear of their 
Annual Contributions shall be entitled to receive, gratis, copies of the parts of the 
Transactions of the Society which shall be published subsequent to their admission, upon 
application, either personally or by an authorised agent, to the Librarian, provided they 
apply for them within five years of the date of publication of such parts. ” 
“ Copies of the parts of the Proceedings shall be distributed to all Fellows of the Society, by 
post or otherwise, as soon as may be convenient after publication.” 
“That the second paragraph of Law XV. be transferred to its natural place at the end of Law 
XVII.” 
The Scrutineers reported that the following New Council had been duly elected : — 
Principal Sir Wm. Turner, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., President. 
Professor Andrew Gray, M.A., LL.D., F. K.S., 
Ramsay H. Traquair, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 
Professor A. Crum Brown, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 
Professor J. C. Ewart, M. D. , F. R. S. , 
John Horne, LL.D., F.R.S., 
James Burgess, C.I.E., LL.D., 
Professor George Chrystal, LL. D. , General Secretary. 
Professor D. J. Cunningham, M.D. , LL.D., F.R.S., \ Secretaries to Ordinary 
Cargill G. Knott, D.Sc., / Meetings. 
James Currie, M.A., Treasurer. 
John S. Black, M.A., LL.D., Curator of Library and Museum. 
^ Vice-Presidents. 
COUNCILLORS. 
Professor E. A. Schafer, LL.D., F.R.S. 
The Hon. Lord M £ Laren, LL.D. 
Professor F. 0. Bower, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. 
Professor T. Hudson Beare, M.Inst.C.E. 
Professor F. W. Dyson, M.A., F.R.S., Astro- 
nomer Royal for Scotland. 
Professor D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B. 
0. Charnock Bradley, M.D., D.Sc. 
Charles Tweedie, M.A., D.Sc. 
Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S. 
A. P. Laurie, M.A., D.Sc. 
Professor Wm. Peddie, D.Sc. 
Professor H. M. Macdonald, M.A. , F.R.S. 
On the motion of Dr Black, seconded by Professor Dyson, thanks were voted to the Scrutineers. 
On the motion of Dr Wedderburn, seconded by Dr Carse, the Auditors were thanked and 
reappointed. 
On the motion of Mr W. A. P. Tait, seconded by Professor Beare, thanks were voted to the 
Chairman. 
Wm. Turner, 
President. 
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