This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...and Graduate of the Institution of Civil em. Inst. 0.1: . ' " F.B.A.S. Fellow of the Royal'Astronomica.l Society. Fellow and Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. M.R.A.S. Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. F.Z.S. Fellow of the Zoological Society. F.R.G.S. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. ' F.S.S. Fellow of the Statistical Society. M.N.S. Member of the Numismatic Society. F.G.S. Fellow of the Chemical Society. F.E.S. Fellow of the Ethnological Society. F.A.S.L. Fellow of the Anthropological Society. M.A.I. Member of the Anthropological Institute, established by the amalgamation of the two last named. F.R.S.E. Fellow of the Royal Society 01 Edinburgh. F.R.S.S.A. Fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. B.A. Royal Academician. M.W.S. Member of the Wernerian Society. F.C.P. Fellow of the College of Preceptors. F.S.A. Scot. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. M.B.I.A. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. M.G.S.D. Mem er of the Geological Society of Dublin. Mem. Inst. C.E..' Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland. ' Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. M.R.C.P. Member, Fellow, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. L...P. F.B.H.S. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr. Hume, in 1853, estimated the number of members of learned societies in the United Kingdom as "considerably more than twenty thousand; and deducting one-fonrth---a very large proportion--for persons who are connected with two or more such societies, we have still more than fifteen thousand individuals! Let it be observed, that these are not to be reckoned like the members of the army or navy: they are the choice spirits of the age, the intellectual men in their...