PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
vol. vii. 1870-71. No. 82. 
Eighty-Eighth Session. 
Monday , 28 th November 1870 . 
Dr CHRISTISON, President, in the Chair. 
The following Council were elected 
President. 
Professor CHRISTISON, M.D., D.C.L, 
Honorary Vice-President. 
His Grace the DUKE of ARGYLL. 
Vice-Presidents. 
David Milne Home, LL.D. 
Professor Kelland. 
The Hon. Lord Neaves. 
Professor Sir William Thomson. 
William Forbes Skene, LL.D. 
Principal Sir Alex. Grant, Bart. 
General Secretary —Dr John Hutton Balfour. 
Secretaries to the Ordinary Meetings * 
Professor Tait. 
Professor Turner. 
Treasurer —David Smith, Esq. 
Curator of Library and. Museum —Dr Maclagan. 
Councillors 
Dr James M‘Bain, R.N. 
Dr William Robertson. 
Thomas Stevenson, Esq., C.E. 
Dr Handyside. 
Archibald Geikie, Esq. 
Professor A. Crum Brown. 
Rev. Dr W. Lindsay Alexander. 
Professor Fleeming Jenkin. 
Prof. Wyville Thomson, LL.D. 
James Donaldson, LL.D. 
Dr Thomas R. Fraser. 
Dr Arthur Gamgee. 
vol. vii. 
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