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Opening Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Proceedings 1876-77
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1878

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page 205 note * This sketch has been furnished by David Stevenson, Esq, C.E.

page 212 note * Periti medici est non protinus ut venit apprehendere manu brachiurn, sed primum residere hilari vultu, percunctarique quemadinodum se habeat, et si quis ejus metus est eum probabili sermone lenire.—Cels. De Re Medica, b. iii. c. 6.

page 212 note † Hor. Epist. I. 1. 35.

page 212 note ‡ This sketch has been contributed by D. Stevenson, Esq., C.E.

page 217 note * “The Builder,” for May 27, 1876, p. 507.

page 217 note † Ibid.

page 218 note * “The Builder,” as above.

page 222 note * Life of Dr Johnson, i. p. 438, 8vo edit. Lond. 1807.

page 227 note * Stephens & Slight, Book of Farm Implements.

page 230 note * Men of the Time, p. 328, 8th edit.

page 233 note * Naturæ rerum vis atque majestas in omnibus momentis fide caret si quis modo partes ejus ac non totam complectitur animo.—Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 1.

page 233 note † Iliad, x. 265, in Pope's version.

page 233 note ‡ Protag., p. 348, D.

page 233 note § Nicom. Eth., viii. 1.

page 234 note * Goethe, Faust, Prol.

page 234 note † Seneca, Ep. xvi.

page 235 note * Consolation in Travel, Worhs, vol. ix. p. 361.