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may add, the eight days of glorious weather, upon which in Scot¬ 
land much of the comfort of so great an assemblage depends— 
this forty-first meeting of the British Association proved in truth 
to be a great success. 
Although the deaths in the Society have not been numerous 
during last year, we have nevertheless to lament the loss of 
several of the most distinguished among our Fellows, both ordi¬ 
nary and honorary. From the list of ordinary Fellows we have to 
strike out the names, in alphabetical order, of Dr William x\nderson, 
Mr Charles Babbage, Mr Robert Chambers, Dr Robert Daun, Mr 
Alexander Keith Johnston, Dr Sheridan Muspratt, Mr Robert 
Russell, Sir William Scott, Dr Fraser Thomson, and Mr Moses 
Steven. Our honorary list no longer bears the names of Sir 
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John Herschell, Sir William Haidinger, and Sir Roderick Impey 
Murchison. 
Mr Robert Russell, an eminent practical and scientific agri¬ 
culturist in the county of Fife, was led to connect himself with the 
Society by his taste for meteorological pursuits. 
Sir William Scott, Baronet, of Ancrum, an enterprising country 
gentleman, a soldier in his youth, and afterwards for some time 
member of Parliament for his county, was well known for his 
attachment to scientific society, and for the regularity of his attend¬ 
ance at our meetings at a period when his avocations allowed him 
to reside occasionally in Edinburgh. 
Dr Robert Daux, Deputy Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, 
also a frequent attender at one time of the meetings of the Society, 
died in June last at a very great age [86]. He served his country 
with distinction in the medical service of the army throughout 
nearly the whole of the most momentous period, and the most 
critical trials, in the military history of our country. He was 
highly esteemed publicly for his knowledge in all departments of 
his profession, and his powers of organisation in his own branch 
of service; and he was no less prized by his friends for his acquaint¬ 
ance with various branches of science and literature. 
