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List of the Present Ordinary Members in the Order of Their Election ( 556 ) LIST OF THE PRESENT ORDINARY MEMBERS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR ELECTION. His MAJESTY THE KING, PATRON. Date of Election. James Hamilton senior, M. D. Edinburgh. Sir William Miller, Baronet, Lord Glenlee. James Russell, Esq. The above Gentlemen were Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society. 1783. Honourable Baron Hume. The above Gentleman was associated with the Members of the Philosophical Society at the institution of the Royal Society in 1783. THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WERE REGULARLY ELECTED. 1784. Rev. Archibald Alison, LL. B. Edinburgh. 1787. James Home, M. D. Professor of the Practice of Physic. 1778. Thomas Charles Hope, M. D. F. R. S. Lond. Professor of Chemistry. Right Honourable Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session. 1793. Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, Bart, of Delvin. 1795. The Very Reverend Dr George Husband Baird, Principal of the University. 1796. The Honourable Baron Sir Patrick Murray, Bart. 1798. Alexander Monro, M. D. Professor of Anatomy, Sfc. Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart. 1799. Thomas Macknight, D. D. Honourable Lord Robertson. Sir George S. Mackenzie, Baronet, F. R. S. Lond. Robert Jameson, Esq. Professor of Natural History. 1802. Colonel D. Robertson Macdonald. 1803. John Jamieson, D. D. Thomas Telford, Esq. Civil Engineer. Reverend Dr Andrew Brown, Professor of Rhetoric. List of Ordinary Members. 557 Date of Election. 1804. William Wallace, Esq. Professor of Mathematics. 1805. Thomas Thomson, M.D. F. R. S. Lond. Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow. 1806. Robert Ferguson, Esq. of Raith, F. R. S. Loud. George Dunbar, Esq. Professor of Greek. 1807. Sir James Montgomery, Baronet, of Stanhope. John Campbell, Esq. of Carbrook. Thomas Thomson, Esq. Advocate. William Fraser Tytler, Esq. Advocate. 1808. James Wardrop, Esq. Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty. Sir David Brewster, Knight, LL.D. F. R. S. Lond. 1811. Sir Charles Bell, Surgeon, London. Reverend Andrew Stewart, M. D. Erskine. David Ritchie, D. D. Professor of Logic. Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougal Brisbane, K. C. B. 1812. General Dyce. John Thomson, M. D. Professor of General Pathology, Edinburgh. James Jardine, Esq. Civil Engineer. Captain Basil Hall, R. N. F. R. S. Lond. J. G. Children, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Alexander Gillespie, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. W. A. Caddell, F. R. S. Lond. Macvey Napier, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Professor of Conveyancing. James Pillans, Esq. Professor of Humanity. Sir George Clerk, Baronet, F. R. S. Lond. Daniel Ellis, Esq. Edinburgh. 1813. William Somerville, M.D. F.R.S. London. Henry Davidson, M. D. Edinburgh. 1814. Sir Henry Jardine, King^s Remembrancer in Exchequer. Patrick Neill, Esq. Secretary to the Wemerian and Horticultural Societies. Right Honourable Lord Viscount Arbuthnot. Reverend John Thomson, Duddingston. John Fleming, D. D. Clackmannan. John Cheyne, M. D. Dublin. Lieutenant-Colonel Tytler, Edinburgh. Alexander Brunton, D. D. Professor of Oriental Languages. Professor George Glennie, Marischall College, Aberdeen. 1815. Robert Stevenson, Esq. Civil Engineer. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Baronet, of Fountainhall. Henry Home Drummond, Esq. of Blair-Drutnmond. Charles Granville Stewart Menteath, Esq. of Closeburn. 558 List of Ordinary Members. Date of Election. 1815. William Thomas Brande, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. and Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 1816. Colonel Thomas Colby, F. R. S. Lond. Royal Engineers. Leonard Homer, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Henry Colebrooke, Esq. Director of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain. George Cooke, D. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrew's. Right Hon. William Adam, Lord Chief-Commissioner. Honourable Lord Fullerton. Thomas Jackson, LL. D. Professor of Natural Philosophy, St Andrew's. John Robison, Esq. Edinburgh. Hugh Murray, Esq. Edinburgh. 1817. Right Hon. Earl of Wemyss and March. John Wilson, Esq. Professor of Moral Philosophy. Honourable Lord Meadowbank. James Hamilton Dickson, M. D. Clifton. William P. Alison, M. D. Professor of the Theory of Physic. James Skene, Esq. of Rubislaw. Reverend Robert Morehead, Northumberland. Robert Bald, Esq. Civil Engineer. Thomas Sivright, Esq. of Meggetland. 1818. William Richardson, M. D. Harrowgate. Right Honourable Lord Napier. Harry William Carter, M. D. Oxford. Patrick Miller, M. D. Exeter. John Craig, Esq. Edinburgh. John Watson, M. D. John Hope, Esq. Dean of Faculty. William Ferguson, M. D. Windsor. Sir William Hamilton, Baronet, Professor of Civil History. 1819. Right Honourable Lord John Campbell, F. R. S. Lond. and M. R. I. A. Dr Shoolbred, Calcutta. Patrick Murray, Esq. of S.imprim. James Muttlebury, M. D. Bath. Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. Mr Alexander Adie, Optician, Edinburgh. William Couper, M. D. Glasgow. Marshal] Hall, M. D. Nottingham. John Borthwick, Esq. Advocate. Richard Phillips, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Reverend William Scoresby. List of Ordinary Members. 559 Date of Election 1819. George Forbes, Esq. Edinburgh. 1820. James Hunter, Esq. of Thurston. Right Honourable David Boyle, Lord Justice-Clerk. James Keith, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. Right Honourable Sir Samuel Shepherd. James Nairne, W. S. Edinburgh. John Colquhoun, Esq. Advocate. ' Lieutenant-Colonel M. Stewart. Charles Babbage, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Thomas Guthrie Wright, Esq. Auditor of the Court of Session. Sir John F. W. Herschel, F. R. S. Lond. Adam Anderson, A. M. Rector of the Perth Academy. John Schank More, Esq. Advocate. George Augustus Borthwick, M. D. Edinburgh. Robert Dundas, Esq. of Arniston. Samuel Hibbert, M. D. Edinburgh. Robert Haldane, D. D. Principal ofSt Mary's College, St Andrew"s. Sir John Meade, M. D. Weymouth. Dr William Macdonald of Bally shear. Sir John Hall, Baronet, of Dunglass. Sir John Hay, Baronet, ofSmithfield and Hayston, M. P. Sir George Ballingall, M. D. Professor of Military Surgery. 1821. Major-General Sir Joseph Straton, K. C. B. Robert Graham, M. D. Professor of Botany. A. N. Macleod, Esq. of Harris. Sir James M. Riddell, Baronet, of Ardnamurchan. Archibald Bell, Esq. Advocate. John Clerk Maxwell, Esq. Advocate. John H. Wishart, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. John Lizars, Esq. Professor of Surgery to the Boyal College of Surgeons, Edin. John Cay, Esq. Advocate. Robert Kay Greville, LL. D. Edinburgh. Robert Hamilton, M. D. Edinburgh. Sir Archibald Campbell, Baronet. Sir David Milne, K. C. B. Colonel Mair, Deputy-Governor of Fort George. A. R. Carson, Esq. LL. D. Bector of the High School. James Buchan, M. D. Edinburgh. James Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouselee, W. S. 1822. Francis Chantry, Esq. F.R. S. Lond. 560 List of Ordinary Members. Date of Election. 1822. Edward Troughton, Esq. F.R. S. Lond. James Smith, Esq. of Jordanhill. William Bonar, Esq. Edinburgh. Rev. H. Parr Hamilton, Cambridge. Captain J. D. Boswall, R. N. of Wardie. George A. Walker Arnott, Esq. Advocate. Rev. John Lee, M. D. Edinburgh. Sir James South, F. R. S. Lond. Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Whyte, Edinburgh. Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq. ofShawfield, M. P. George Joseph Bell, Esq. Professor of Scots Law. Dr William Dyce, Aberdeen. W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. Wallington. Sir Robert Abercromby, Baronet, of Birkenbog. Thomas Shortt, M. D. Edinburgh. Dr Wallich, Calcutta. 1823. The Right Honourable Sir George Warrender, Baronet, of Lochend. John Russell, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh. John Shaw Stewart, Esq. Advocate. Alexander Hamilton, M. D. Edinburgh. Right Honourable Sir William Rae, Baronet, of St Catherine's. Sir Robert Dundas, Baronet, of Beechwood. William Cadell, Esq. of Cockenzie. Sir William Knighton, Baronet. Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Baronet, A.M. F.R S. Lond. Thurlsby Hall. Sir James Stuart, Baronet, of Allanbank. Sir Andrew Halliday, M.D. John Bonar, Esq. of Kimmerghame. Captain Thomas David Stuart, of the Hon. East India Company's Service. Andrew Fyfe, M. D. Lecturer on Chemistry, Edinburgh. Robert Bell, Esq. Advocate, Procurator for the Church of Scotland. Captain Norwich. Duff, R. N. Warren Hastings Anderson, Esq. Alexander Thomson, Esq. of Banchory, Advocate. Liscombe John Curtis, Esq. Ingsdon House, Devonshire. Robert Knox, M. D. Lecturer on Anatomy, Edinburgh. Robert Christison, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica. John Gordon, Esq. of Cairnbulg. 1824. George Harvey, Esq. F.R. S. Lond. Plymouth. Dr Lawson Whalley, Lancaster. List of Ordinary Members. 561 Date of Eelction. 1824. William Bell, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh. Alexander Wilson Philip, M. D. London. James Hamilton junior, M. D. Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh. Admiral Adam, R. N. Robert E. Grant, Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the London Univer- sity. Claud Russell, Esq. Accountant, Edinburgh. Rev. Dr William Muir, one of the Ministers of Edinburgh. W. H. Playfair, Esq. Architect, Edinburgh. John Argyle Robertson, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. James Pillans, Esq. Edinburgh. James Walker, Esq. Civil Engineer^ William Newbigging, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. William Wood, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. John Campbell, M. D. Edinburgh. George Anderson, Esq. Rector of the Inverness Academy. 1825. Rev. John Williams, Rector of the Edinburgh Academy. W. Preston Lauder, M. D. London. Right Honourable Lord Ruthven. Major Leith Hay of Rannes. Edward Turner, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in the London University. Dr Reid Clanny, Sunderland. Sir John Archibald Stewart, Baronet, of Grandtully. Sir William Jardine, Baronet, of Applegarth. Alexander Wood, Esq. Advocate. Rev. Dionysius Lardner, London University. 1826. George Macpherson Grant, Esq. of BaUindaUoch. William Renny, Esq. W. S. Solicitor of Stamps. Elias Cathcart, Esq. Advocate. Andrew
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