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List of the Present Ordinary Members in the Order of Their Election ( 521 ) LIST OF THE PRESENT ORDINARY MEMBERS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR ELECTION. His MAJESTY THE KING PATEON. Date of Election. James Hamilton senior, M. D. Edinburgh. Sir William Miller, Baronet, Lord Glenlee. James Russell, Esq. Professor of Clinical Surgery. The above Gentlemen were Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society. 178SJ. Honourable Baron Hume. Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Bart. The above Gentlemen were associated with the Members of the Philosophical Society at the Institution of the Royal Society in 1783. The following Members were regularly elected. 1784. Sir James Hall, Baronet, F. R. S. Lond. Honourable Lord Eldin. Reverend Archibald Alison, LL. B. Edinburgh. 1785. James Hare, M. D. late of Calcutta. 1787. James Home, M. D. Professor of the Practice of Physic. 1788. Thomas Charles Hope, M. D. F. R. S. Lond. Professor of Chemistry. Right Honourable Charles Hope, Lord President qftlie Court of Session. 1793. Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, Bart, of Delvin. 1795. The Very Reverend Dr George Husband Baird, Principal of the University. 522 LIST OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. Date of Election. 1795. Robert Hamilton, Esq. Professor of Public Law. 1796. The Honourable Baron Sir Patrick Murray, Baronet. Andrew Berry, M. D. Edinburgh. 1797. Andrew Duncan, M. D. Prqfessor of Materia Medica. 1798. Alexander Monro, M. D. Prqfessor of Anatomy, §c. 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. Prqfessor of Natural History. 1800. Gilbert Innes, Esq. of Stow. Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, of Abbotsford. 1802. Colonel D. Robertson Macdonald. 1803. John Jamieson, D. D. Thomas Telford, Esq. Civil Engineer. Reverend Dr Andrew Brown, Prqfessor of Rhetoric. 1804. William Wallace, Esq. Professor of Mathematics. Honourable Lord Newton. 1805. Thomas Allan, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Thomas Thomson, M. D. F. R. S. Lond. Professor of Chemistry, Glasgow. 1806. Robert Ferguson, Esq. qfRaith, F. R. S. Lond. George Bell, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. George Dunbar, Esq. Prqfessor of Greek. 1807. Sir James Montgomery, Baronet, qf Stanhope. John Leslie, Esq. Prqfessor qf Natural Philosophy. John Campbell, Esq. qf Carbrodk. Thomas Thomson, Esq. Advocate. William Fraser Tytler, Esq. Advocate. 1808. James Wardrop, Esq. Surgeon Extraordinary to his Majesty. David Brewster, LL. D. F. R. S. Lond. 1811. Charles Bell, Esq. Surgeon, London. Alexander Nimmo, Esq. Civil Engineer. Reverend Andrew Stewart, M. D. Erskine. David Ritchie, D. D. Prqfessor of Logic. Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougal Brisbane, K. C. B. 1812. General Dyce. John Thomson, M. D. Edinburgh. James Jardine, Esq. Civil Engineer. Captain Basil Hall, R. N. F. R. S. Lond. LIST OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. 523 l)ate of Election. 1812. J. G. Children, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Alexander Gillespie, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. W. A. Caddell, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Macvey Napier, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. James Pillans, Esq. Prqfesssor of Humanity. Sir George Clerk, Bart. M. P. and F. R. S. Lond. Daniel Ellis, Esq. Edinburgh. 13. 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 Wernerian and Horticultural Societies. Right Honourable Lord Viscount Arbuthnot. Reverend John Thomson, Duddingston. John Fleming, D. D, Flisk. John Cheyne, M. D. Dublin. Sir James Macintosh, Bart. London. Lieut.-Colonel Tytler, Edinburgh. Alexander Brunton, D. D. Professor qf Oriental Languages. Professor George Glennie, Marischall College, Aberdeen. 1815. Gilbert Laing Meason, Esq. qf Lindertis. Robert Stevenson, Esq. Civil Engineer. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart, qf FouniainhaM. Henry Home Drummond, Esq. qf Blmr-Drummand, M. P. Charles Granville Stewart Menteath, Esq. ofCldsebum. William Thomas Brande, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. and Professor qf Chemistry in the Royal Institution. 1816. Colonel Thomas Colby, F> R. S. Royal Engineers. Leonard Homer, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Henry Colbrooke, Esq. Director of the Asiatic Society qf Great Britain. George Cook, D. D. Laurencekirk. Right Honourable William Adam,, Lord Chief Commissioner. Honourable Lord Fullerton. Thomas Jackson, LL. D. Professor qf Natural Philosophy, St Andrews John Robison, Esq. Edinburgh. Hugh Murray, Esq. Edinburgh. 1817. The Honourable Baron Clerk Rattray. Right Honourable the Earl of Wemyss and March. John Wilson, Esq. Professor of Moral Philosophy. Honourable Lord Meadowbank. VOL. XI. PART II. 3 U 5M LIST OV OED1NARY MEMBERS. Date of Election. 1817. 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, Edinburgh, 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. Major James Alston of Auchenard, William Ferguson, M. D. Windsor. Sir William Hamilton, Bart. Professor of Civil History. 1819 Right Honourable Lord John Campbell, F. R. S. Lond. and M. R. I. Dr Shoolbred, Calcutta. Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. Advocate. Patrick Murray, Esq. of Sirnprim. James Muttlebury, M. D. Bath. Thomas Stewart Traill, M. D. Liverpool. Mr Alexander Adie, Optician, Edinburgh. William Couper, M. D. Glasgow. Marshall Hall, M. D. Nottingham. John Borthwick, Esq. Advocate. Richard Phillips, Esq. F. R. S. London, Reverend William Scoresby. George Forbes, Esq. Edinburgh. 18^0. James Hunter, Esq. of Thurston. Right Honourable David Boyle, Lord Justice-Clerk. James Keith, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. Right Honourable Sir Samuel Shepherd. James Nairne, Esq. 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, LIST OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. 52 5 Date of Election. 1820. John F. W. Herschel, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Adam Anderson, Esq. A. M. Rector of the Academy, Perth. John Schank More, Esq. Advocate. George Augustus Borthwick, M. D. F.uinburgh. Robert Dundas, Esq. of Arniston. Samuel Hibbert, M. D. Robert Haldane, D. D. Principal ofSt Mary's College, St A?idrezv's. Sir John Meade, M. D. Weymouih. Dr William Macdonald of BaUyshear. John Hall, Esq. younger of Dunglass. Sir John Hay, Bart, of Smithfield and Hayston. Sir George Ballingall, M. D. Professor of Military Surgery. 1821. Major-General Straton, C. B. &c. &c. Robert Graham, M. D. Professor of Botany. A. N. Macleod, Esq. of Harris. Sir James M. Riddell, Bart, of Ardnamurchan. Archibald Bell, Esq. Advocate. John Clerk Maxwell, Esq. Advocate. John H. Wishart, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. John Lizars, Esq. Surgeon, Edinburgh. John Cay, Esq. Advocate. Sir Charles Giesecke, Professor of Mineralogy to the Dublin Society. Robert Kay Greville, LL. D. Edinburgh. Robert Hamilton, M. D. Edinburgh. Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart. Sir David Milne, K. C. B. Colonel Mair, Deputy Governor of Fort George. A. R. Carson, Esq. Rector of the High School, LL. D. James Buchan, M. D. Edinburgh. James Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouseke, W. S. 1822. Francis Chantry, Esq. F. R. S. London, &c. Edward Troughton, Esq. F. R. S. London, &c 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. 526 LIST OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. Date of Election. 1822. John Ay ton, Esq. ofInchdarnie. Sir James South, F. R. S. London, &c. Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Whyte, Edinburgh. Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq. of Shawjleld, M. P. George Joseph Bell, Esq. Professor of Scots Law. Dr William Dyce, Aberdeen. W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. Wallington. Robert Abercromby, Esq. younger qf Birkenbog. Thomas Shortt, M. D. Edinburgh. Dr Wallich, Calcutta. 1823. The Right Honourable Sir George Warrender, Bart, qf Lochend. John Russell, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh. John Shaw Stewart, Esq. Advocate. Alexander Hamilton, M. D. Edinburgh. Right Honourable Sir William Rae, Bart. ofSt Catherine's. Sir Robert Dundas, Bart, qf Beechwood. William Cadell, Esq. qf Cockenzie. Sir William Knighton, Bart. Sir Edward French Bromhead, Bart. A. M. F. R. S. Lond., Thurlsby Hall. Sir James Stuart, Bart, of Allanbank. Sir Andrew Halliday, M. D. John Bonar, Esq. qf Kimmerghame. Captain Thomas David Stuart, qfthe Hon. East India Company's Service. Andrew Fyfe, M. D. Lecturer on Chemistry, Edinburgh. Robert Bell, Esq. Advocate. 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 qf Medical Jurisprudence. John Gordon, Esq. qfCairnbulg. 1824 George Harvey, Esq. F. R. S. Lond. Plymouth. Dr Lawson Whalley, Lancaster. William Bell, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh. Alexander Wilson Philip, M. D. London. James Hamilton jun., M. D. Professor qf Midwifery in the University qf Edin- burgh. Admiral Adam, R. N. LIST OF ORDINARY MEMBERS. 527 Date of Election. 1824. Robert Grant, M. D. Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the London Uni- versity. 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.
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