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Members of the society were known as Fellows and permitted to use the post-nominal letters FRPSE. Presidents were elected at intervals, sometimes more than one for each year.
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The society occupied a lecture hall in Nicholson Street, Edinburgh, complete with library. From 1854 to 1965, it published the journal
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in 1782 (not to be confused with the extant Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, founded in 1821), the
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Some of the records of the Society, for the period 1828–1884, are maintained by the
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It absorbed a number of other societies over the next fifty years, including the
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the arts ..., Volume 21
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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh
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Royal Physical Society
Edinburgh
Scotland
American Physical Society
Royal Scottish Geographical Society
John Grieve
Edward Forbes
Robert Halliday Gunning
Hugh Miller
Andrew Murray
Alexander Bryson
Stevenson Macadam
Robert Brown
David Grieve
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
John Struthers
John Graham Kerr
Orlando Charnock Bradley
James Hartley Ashworth
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Charles Henry O'Donoghue


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