The following ORDINARY FELLOWS, included in the foregoing List, are ordered to remain, till they return to Scotland, in the following

SUSPENSE LIST.

1844. William Cooper, glass-manufacturer, late of Picardy Place, Edinburgh, and now in

Canada.

Joseph M. Kronheim, ornamental designer, London.

1845. Lieut.-Col. Blanshard, R.E., Mauritius.

1846. George Buist, LL.D., Bombay.

Mungo Ponton, F.R.S.E., 11 Lansdowne Place, Clifton.

1849. F. E. Seeligmann, punch-cutter, London.

1851. John S. Fraser, Swindon Station, Great Western Railway. 1852. Thomas C. Gregory, C.E., America.

Colin Miller, M.D., late of Edinburgh.

1853. James Newlands, C.E., superintendent of works, Liverpool.

David T. Hope, C.E., late of Liverpool.

1854. Dr Daniel Wilson, Professor, Canada.

J. T. Thomson, C.E., Government Surveyor, Singapore.

John Macadam, M.D., Surgeon, late chemist, Glasgow, now lecturer on Nat. Science,
Free Seminary, Melbourne, Australia.

1849.

HONORARY FELLOWS ADMITTED SINCE APRIL 1848.

Nov. 12. JOHN MAXTON, Esq., Superintendent Engineer to the Viceroy of Egypt. 1851.

Dec. 8.

His Excellency Baron Titoff, Russian Minister at the Ottoman Porte.

M. Gevers Van Endegeest, Counsellor of State, Member of the States-General of
Holland, President of the Commission for the Drainage of Haarlem Meer.
Sir William Cubitt, F.R.S., President Inst. C.E., London.

General Harry Jones, R.E., M.I.C.E.

Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. Inst. C.E., London.

Isambard K. Brunel, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. Inst. C.E., London.

HONORARY FELLOWS DECEASED SINCE APRIL 1848.

M. SCHUMACHER, Altona.

M. BERZELIUS, Stockholm.

M. ERMANN, Berlin.

General COLBY, R.E.

J. J. AUDUBON.

Sir JOHN BARROW, Secretary, Admiralty.

Mr PRITCHARD, London.

Sir MARK J. BRUNEL, C.E., London.

M. DAGUERRE.

F. P. SMITH, Esq., London.

GEORGE STEPHENSON, Esq., C.E., Newcastle.

The Most Noble SPENCER, Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, P.R.S.

ASSOCIATE ADMITTED SINCE APRIL 1848.

1850.

Feb. 11. Rev. GRAHAM MITCHELL, LL.D., Whitburn.

ASSOCIATES DECEASED SINCE APRIL 1848.

JAMES SMITH Esq., Deanston.

Mr GEORGE GRIEVE, Midfield, Musselburgh.
Mr JAMES FORBES, Old Meldrum.

APPENDIX (0*).

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS, SESSION 1854-55.

The Annual General Meeting of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts was held in their Hall, 51 George Street, on Monday, 13th November 1854.-Rev. Professor Kelland, A.M., President, in the Chair.

The PRESIDENT opened the session with an eloquent address, of which the following is an abstract :-After thanking the Society for the honour of having filled the President's chair, and paying a tribute to the memory of those members who had been removed by death since their last meeting, referring particularly to Sheriff L'Amy, Mr Murray of Henderland, and Mr Kemp, the learned Professor congratulated the Society on the results of the last session. Without disparagement to the merits of other papers, he particularised four of those read as illustrations of a position which formed a principal point in his address, viz., the twofold office of the Society, in holding up excellence as a model and incitement on the one hand, and on the other encouraging and fostering every indication of rising genius. The first was exemplified in the papers of Messrs Stevenson and Thomson, the second in those of Messrs Elliott and Scott. On their various merits the Professor spoke in terms of high eulogy. He then proceeded to some remarks on the objects and advantages of an association such as the Society of Arts. Such a Society cannot have the power of controlling outward circumstances; it must yield to them, and improve on them. To judge of this Society by a comparison with the French Institute or the Royal Society of London, would be as preposterous as to compare the latter as it now is with what it was at its foundation. The Professor here recalled the circumstances connected with that event, and said that the founders of the Royal Society seemed to be conscious that they belonged to a transition era, when combination for mutual assistance was necessary to make up for individual helplessness. As a sample of the style of their proceedings, he read some extracts from the minutes of their early meetings, as recorded by Birch, e.g., March 20, 1661.— "The amanuensis was ordered to make the experiment of the calcination of antimony, whether it increaseth or not, and to weigh it before and after, in and out of the water." March 25.-" Mr Boyle was requested to report the name of the place in Brazil where that wood is which attracts fishes, and of the fish which turns to the wind when suspended by VOL. IV.APP.

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