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PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING 
Beginning the 131st Session, 1913-1914. 
At the Annual Statutory Meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held in the Society’s 
Lecture Room, 24 George Street, on Monday, October 27, 1913, at 4.30 p.m. 
Principal Sir, Wm. Turner, K.C.B. , President, in the Chair. 
Before the ordinary business of the Meeting commenced, Professor Crum Brown, in the name 
of Lady Kelvin, presented to the Society a Marble Bust of the late Lord Kelvin, and the 
President, Sir Wm. Turner, received the Bust in the name of the Society. (For account of the 
Ceremony of the Presentation and Reception, see Proceedings, vol. xxxiv, pp. 1-3.) 
The Minutes of the last Statutory Meeting, October 28, 1912, were read, approved, and signed. 
On the motion of Dr Horne, seconded by Mr Jas. Currie, Mr John Alison and Mr J. B. 
Clark were appointed Scrutineers, and the ballot for the New Council commenced. 
The Treasurer’s Accounts for the past year, 1912-1913, were submitted; these, with the 
Auditors’ Report, were read, and approved. 
The Scrutineers reported that the following Council had been duly elected : — 
Professor James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., President 
James Burgess, C.I.E., LL.D., M.R.A.S., 
Professor T. Hudson Beare, M.Inst.C.E., 
Professor F. 0. Bower, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., 
Professor Sir Thomas R. Fraser, M.D., LL.D., ^ Vice-Presidents. 
F. R.C.P.E., F.R.S., 
Benjamin N. Peach, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., 
Professor Sir E. A. Schafer, M.R.C.S., LL.D., F.R.S.,, 
Cargill G. Knott, D.Sc., General Secretary. 
Robert Kidston, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., \ Secretaries to Ordinary 
Professor Arthur Robinson, M.D., M.R.C.S., J Meetings. 
James Currie, M.A. , Treasurer. 
John S. Black, M.A. , LL.D., Curator of Library and Museum. 
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
Professor T. H. Bryce, M.A., M.D. 
William Allan Carter, M.Inst.C.E. 
Andrew Watt, M.A. 
James H. Ashworth, D.Sc. 
James Gordon Gray, D.Sc. 
Professor R. A. Sampson, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. 
Professor D’Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., B.A., 
F.L.S. 
Professor E. T. Whittaker, Sc.D., F.R.S. 
Principal A. P. Laurie, M.A., D.Sc. 
Professor J. Graham Kerr, M.A., F.R.S. 
Leonard Dobbin, Ph.D. 
Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn, M.A., 
LL.B. 
^° C George^Heriot’s^rast) n } William A llan Ca ETER , M.Inst.C.E. 
On the motion of Professor F. 0. Bower, thanks were voted to the Scrutineers. 
On the motion of Mr Hewat, thanks were voted to the Auditors, Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson 
& Haldane, and they were reappointed. 
On the motion of Dr Knott, thanks were voted to the Treasurer, Mr James Currie. 
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