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1 roceedings of the Royal Society 
Monday , 4 th December 1871. 
A Marble Bust of the late Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., 
by Weekes, was presented. 
Although the Bust was only placed in the Hall at this time, the 
offer of it to the Society was made by Sir Roderick I. Murchison 
in June 1871, in the following letter to the President :— 
16 Belgrave Square, 2 6 th June 1871. 
My dear Professor, —As it is very improbable, indeed—nay, 
almost a certainty—that I shall not be able to attend the meeting 
of the British Association at Edinburgh this year, I wish to send, 
as my representative, a marble bust of myself, executed by Mr 
Henry Weekes, R.A., and which is on the point of completion. 
I beg to be informed if the Council of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh, over which you preside, will accept this bust as a 
donation from myself, in gratitude for the great honour they con¬ 
ferred on me many years ago, by enrolling my name in their dis¬ 
tinguished list of honorary members; also in recollection of 
another great honour which they conferred on me, by granting to 
me the first Brisbane gold medal for my labours in Scottish 
geology. If you assent to this proposal, I will direct Mr Weekes 
to transmit the bust to the Secretary of your Royal Society, in the 
hope that you will place it in the same building as the busts of our 
other scientific countrymen whom you have thus honoured. 
I have also written to David Milne Home on this point, and 
have assured him, at the same time, that I will do everything in 
my power to support the memorial to the G-overnment to assist the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh in carrying out their meritorious re¬ 
searches, as signed by yourself.—An early reply will oblige, yours 
sincerely, 
RODERICK I. MURCHISON. 
To Professor Christison, 
President, R.S. Edin. 
