During the Session the following were elected Members :—

John Davidson, M. A., Teacher of Mathematics. (1884.-D.D., Hon.
Member, Parish Minister of Inverurie.)

Jan. 4, 1844.

W. Shand, Old Aberdeen.

Nov. 8.

Paper read:

Sixth Session, 1844-1845.

On an Artificial Cave in the Parish of Cluny, supposed to be of

Dec. 9.

Pictish origin.

The following were elected Office-Bearers:—

Mr. LESLIE.

Vice-Presidents-Professor BLACKIE and Sheriff WATSON.

President-Dr. SHIER.

Secretary-Mr. BAIN.

Papers read:

On the use of Steeps for Seed.

Treasurer-Mr. BEST.

Dr. DICKIE.

On the Definition and Classification of the Human Senses.

On the Grasses and Vegetable Productions of the Falkland Islands.

On the Management of the Poor.

April 4.

On the Scottish Universities.

Dr. DICKIE. Baillie URQUHART.

Professor BLACKIE.

During the Session the following were elected Members:

Nov. 8.

Dec. 9.

Alex. Mitchell, M.A., Bookseller. (1884.-D.D., Minister, Dunfermline, Hon Member.)

Wm. Pirie Smith, M.A., Rector, West-End Academy. (1884.-D.D.,
Hon. Member, Retired Minister of Free Church, Keig and
Tough.)

Andrew Fyfe, M.D., Professor of Chemistry, King's College.
(Afterwards Professor in Aberdeen University, and President,
Mechanics' Institute.)

Feb. 7, 1845.

John Blaikie, Advocate.

March 7.

John Duguid Milne, Jun., M. A., Advocate. (1884.-Hon. Member,
Ex-President, Mechanics' Institute.)

On the Laws of the Derivation of the Qualities of Progeny from

On the Duration of Life in Plants, with reference chiefly to the

During the Session the following Election was made:

March 6, 1846.

George Walker, M. A., Writer. (1884.-Advocate, Aberdeen.)

June.

Excursion to Cove.

Eighth Session, 1846-1847.

Paper read:

Nov. 3.

On the Principal Statistical Results contained in the Reports of the Registrar-General for England.

Dec. 4.

The following were elected Office-Bearers :

Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Vice-Presidents-Dr. DICKIE and Dr. TEMPLETON.

President-Professor BLACKIE.

Secretary-Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Papers read:

Treasurer-Mr. BEST.

On the Theology of the Greeks, as exhibited in the "Prometheus

Bound" of Eschylus.

Jan. 8, 1847.

On the Arctic Regions.

Feb. 5.

On the Latin Poems of Jacob Balde. March 5.

On the Hypothesis of Spontaneous Generation. On the Unit or Proximate Atom of Society. April 1.

Professor BLACKIE.

Dr. TEMPLETON.

Professor BLACKIE.

Dr. DICKIE.

Mr. FINDLATER.

On the Connection subsisting between Physical Science and Religion. Rev. Mr. RITCHIE,

During the Session the following were elected Members:

Rev. Wm. Martin, M. A., Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic,

March 5.

Marischal College.

(Afterwards LL.D., Professor of Moral

Philosophy in the University, Aberdeen.)

James Grant, Stamp Office.

David Gray, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy, Marischal
College.

June.

Excursion to Dunnottar and Fetteresso.

The following were elected Office-Bearers:—

President-Professor MARTIN.

Vice-Presidents-Dr. HARVEY and Dr. JAMIESON.

Secretary-Mr. J. D. MILNE. 1 Treasurer-Baillie JOHN URQUHART.

During the Session the following were elected Members :—

Nov. 5.

Rev. S. M'Intosh, D.D., East Parish Church.

Jan. 7, 1848.

H. Ambrose Smith, Actuary. (1884.-Hon. Member, Ex-President,
Mechanics' Institute.)

Nov. 3.

Paper read:

Tenth Session, 1848-1849.

On the Propriety of Admitting the Female Sex into a larger share of Non-domestic Industry.

Dec. 1.

The following were elected Office Bearers :

President-Professor MARTIN.

Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Vice-Presidents-Dr. HARVEY and Dr. JAMIESON.

Secretary-Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Papers read:

Treasurer-Baillie JOHN URQUHART.

On Some of the Changes which obscure Personal Identity.

Jan. 5, 1849.

Dr. JAMIESON.

On the Nature of the Connection between Life and Organisation.

Dr. HARVEY.

Feb. 2.

On the Propriety of Admitting the Female Sex into a larger share of Non-domestic Industry (second part). Mr. J. D. MILNE.

March 9.

On the Moral and Mental Improvement of Female Domestic
Servants.
Baillie JOHN URQUHART.

April 5.

On Biology.

Mr. ALEX. CRUICKSHANK.

During the Session the following were elected Members :-
Jan. 5, 1849.

Feb. 2.

John Smith, M.A., M.D., Lecturer on Chemistry and Agriculture,
Marischal College. (1884.-LL.D., Hon. Member, Professor of
Experimental Physics and Chemistry, University of Sydney,
and Member of the Legislative Council.)

David Mackintosh, M. D., Lecturer, Institutes of Medicine. March 9.

Norval Clyne, M.A., Advocate. (1884.-Hon. Member.)

Vice-Presidents-Mr. WATSON and Dr. TEMPLETON.

Secretary-Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Papers read:

Treasurer-Baillie JOHN URQUHART.

On the Influences of Industrial Schools on the Moral and Physical
Constitution of Pauper Children. (Communicated by Sheriff
WATSON.)
Mr. STRATTON.

Jan. 11, 1850.

On the Connection between Vice and Deficient Sanitary Arrangements. Dr. TEMPLETON.

Feb. 1.

On the Proximate Laws by which the Muscles attain the positions they severally hold in the Animal Frame.

March 8.
On Biology.

April 5.

Mr. J. D. MILNE.

Mr. A. CRUICKSHANK.

On Mental States in either Parent, as influencing the Foetus in

Utero.

Dr. HARVEY.