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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 1879, Vol. 4
In 1796, the American Physical Society cast in its lot with the newly chartered Society. Afterwards in 1799, it was also joined by the Hibernian Society, and in 1802, by the Chemical Society. The Natural History Society joined in 1812, and on this union, James Edward Smith (the father Of English Botany), Henry Brougham (afterwards Lord Brougham), and James Macintosh (afterwards Sir James Macintosh), were elected honorary members Of the Royal Physical, having been formerly ordinary Of the Natural History Society. And it may be here mentioned that amongst the manuscript dissertations Of the latter Society still extant, there will be found one or more of the juvenile performances Of the late learned and versatile Lord Chancellor Brougham. Another amalgamation or rather absorption was with the Didactic Society in 1813, and the last took place with the Wernerian in 1858. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
