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Art. XXIV.- — Proceedings of the Society of Arts for Scotland. 
The Society for the promotion of the mechanical and useful 
arts in Scotland, was first announced in this Journal in Decem- 
ber 1819, as on the eve of being instituted, “for rewarding 
inventions of public utility, and for disseminating useful know- 
ledge among the industrious classes of society 
This institution has for some time been regularly organised, 
and already consists of more than 200 members. At a general 
meeting of the Society, held on the 18th November 1822, Sir 
William Arbuthnot, Bart. Lord Provost, in the chair, the fol- 
lowing Committees were appointed for carrying on the business 
of the Society f 
Committee on Accounts. 
Sir William Arbuthnot, Bart. Gilbert Innes, Esq. 
Henry Jardine, Esq. George Forbes, Esq. Treasurer, ex officio , 
Thomas Allan, Esq. 
Committee on Laws and Regulations. 
Reverend Dr Macknight. James Skene, Esq. 
Reverend Dr Brunton, 
Committee on the Chemical Arts . 
Dr Hope. Dr Fyfe. 
Alexander Irving, Esq Thomas Sivright, Esq. 
Professor Wallace. 
James Jardine, Esq. 
Robert Stevenson, Esq. 
Andrew Waddell, Esq. 
Mr James Milne. 
Committee on the Mechanical Arts. 
Mr Whitelaw. 
Dr Brewster, Director, 
John Robison, Esq 
T. G. Wright, Esq 
'tor, "1 
j- Secretaries, l" 
At this meeting the following gentlemen, not resident in Scot- 
land, were elected honorary members of the Society. 
James Watt, Esq. Soho. 
Peter Ewart, Esq. Manchester. 
John Rennie, Esq. F. R. S. 
J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. F, R. S. 
Charles Babbage, Esq. F. R. S. 
Rev. Dr Brinkley, Dublin, F. R. S. 
Arthur Aikin, Esq. S. S. A. London. 
Davies Gilbert, Esq. M. P. F. R. S. 
Murdoch, Esq. Soho. 
John Farey jun. Esq. C. E. 
.Jacob Perkins, Es<j. London. 
Major Colby, F. R. S. 
Edward Troughton, Esq. F: R. S. 
John Barton, Esq. London. 
M. Reich enbach, Munich. 
M. Frauenhoffer, Munich. 
Professor Christian, Paris, 
M. Le Chevalier Dupin, Paris, F. R. S. E, 
M. Bettancourt, Petersburg. 
M. Schumacher, Copenhagen, F. R, S. E. 
M. Berzelius, Stockholm, F. R. S. E. 
M. Ermann, Berlin. 
See Vol. II. p. 193. 
