 | 1834 - 222 ページ
...that Mr. David Hume and Dr. Alexander Munro, Jun. were the secretaries in 1752, at which period they were directed to arrange and prepare for the press, such papers as were deemed worthy of publication. Soon after this, another literary society, also connected with the origin... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1890 - 252 ページ
...Society/however, were renewed about the year 1752; and the new Secretaries, who were the celebrated Mr DAVID HUME and Dr ALEXANDER MONRO, junior, were directed to arrange...judged worthy of being submitted to the public eye. The first volume of the Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh was accordingly published... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1788 - 678 ページ
...however, were renewed about the year 1752; and the new Secretaries, who were the celebrated Mr DAVID HUME and Dr ALEXANDER MONRO, junior, were directed to arrange and prepare for the prefs fuch papers as were judged worthy of being Submitted to the public eye. The firft volume of the... | |
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Plummer, at the same time, were appointed Secretaries. A few years afterwards, the meetings of the Society were interrupted for a considerable space of time by the disorders of the country, in the rebellion of 1745 ; and no sooner was public tranquillity... 