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PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.
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NATIONAL MUSEUM of the ANTIQUARIES
of SCOTLAND.
Keeper, Jos. Anderson; Assistant do., Geo. Hastie.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY,
Culton Hill.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland, C. Piazzi Smyth,
F.RS.E. & F.R.A.S. First Assistant do., Alex.
Wallace, M.A. Second Assistant do., Thomas
Heath, B.A., Trinity College, Dublin.
GOVKRNMEXT-APPOINTKD BOARD OF VISITORS.
Chairman, Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, C.B.
Members ex officiis, Kight Hon. the Lord Provost,
Sir Alex. Grant, Bart., Principal of the University,
Edinburgh, Sir Wm. Thomson, President of the
Royal Society, Edinburgh, Bev. P. Kelland,
Prof, of Mathematics, Un. Ed., and Prof. P. G.
Tait, Prof, of Natural Philosophy, Un. Ed.
Members unofficial, The Bt. Hon. the Lord Justice-
General (Inglis), Kight Hon. Sir W. Gibson
Craig, Part., Duncan M'Laren, Esq., M.P., E.
S. Newall, Esq., Gateshead-on-Tyne, R. M. Smith,
Esq., F.K.S.E., and the Kight Hon. Lyon Playfair.
Secretary, Prof. P. G. Tait, M.A.
SCOTTISH METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY.
General Post Office Buildings.
President, Most Hon. the Marquis of Tweeddale.
Vice-President, Lord Lindsay.
Chairman of Council, D. M. Home of Wedderburn.
Hon. Sec, T. Stevenson, C.E., F.E.S.E., M.I.C.E.
Hon. Treas. and Conv. of Finance Com., J. Sanderson.
Chairman of the Medico-Climatological Committee,
Dr Arthur Mitchell.
Meteoro. Sec, Alexander Buchan.
FISHERY BOARD, SCOTLAND.
Office, Royal Institution, Mound.
(Established under provisions of Act 48 Geo. in. c.
110 ; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 91 ; and 23 & 24 Vict. c. 92.)
Commissioners, Earl of Caithness, J. T. Gibson-
Craig, Lord Elcho, M.P., Sir James Matheson,
Bart., George Loch, Lord Justice - General
(Inglis), Lyon Playfair, C.B., M.P., Andrew
Coventry, A. S. Finlay, J. Caird, Dr. G. J. All-
man, J. J. Grieve, M.P., Lord Young, Francis
Abbott, Captain J. de C. Agnew, B.N., R. Dundas
of Arnistoa, and the Lord Advocate (Gordon)
and the Solicitor-General (Watson) ex qfficiis.
Secretary, Hon. Bouverie F. Primrose.
Chief Clerk, James Wilson ; Clerks, W. C. Miller, Jn.
Henderson, Alex. Reid, and Wm. C. Kobertson ;
Messenger, George Stenhouse; Porter, Alfred
Gravely ; General Inspector, L. Lamb, Leith ;
Assistant do., George Keiach, Greenock.
Commander, Fishery Crtiiser '■Vigilant,' 1 S.M'Donald.
Engineers for building Piers or Quays, Messrs David
and Thomas Stevenson, C.E.
DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS AND JUDICIAL
STATISTICS.
Office, St Giles Street.
3tanagers under \ The Prisons Administration Act,
I860,' ex officio, The Sheriff of Perthshire ; the
Inspector of Prisons for Scotland ; the Crown
Agent in Scotland.
Manager, appointed by the Crown, and Secretary
to the Managers, John Hill Burton, LL.D.
Superintendent of Judicial Statistics Department,
John Hill Burton, LL.D.
Chief Clerk and Collector of Judicial Statistics,
"\\ illiam Donaldson.
Registrar of Criminals, George B. Cruickshnnk.
Clei'k, L. A. Vandenbergh ; Messenger, J. Cameron.
H. M. INSPECTOR OF PRISONS FOR
SCOTLAND.
Captain T.Folliott Powoll, Home Office, London.
GENERAL BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS IN
LUNACY,
51 Queen Street.
Commissioners, Sir John Don AVauchope, Bart.,
Chah-man ; The Rt. Hon. Lord Young; George
Monro, Sheriff of Linlithgow; Sir James Coxe,
M.D. ; and Arthur Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.
Deputy Commissioners, George A. Paterson, M.D.,
John Sibbald, M.D. ; Secretary, 'William Forbes,
advocate ; Clerk to the Board, T. W. L. Spence ;
Clerks, W. Denton, Jas. Wilson, and D. Forbes.
Messenger, William Lear.
COMMISSIONERS OF N. LIGHTHOUSES.
Offici'. 84 George Street.
The Lord Advocate, Solicitor-General, the Lord
Provosts and Senior Bailies of Edinburgh and
Glasgow ; the Provosts of Aberdeen, Inverness,
Campbeltown, Dundee, Greenock, and Leith ; the
Sheriffs of the Counties of Edinburgh, and Had-
dington, Lanark, Renfrew and Bute, Argyll,
Inverness. Koss Cromarty and Sutherland,
Caithness, Orkney and Shetland, Aberdeen and
Kincardine, Ayr, Fife, Forfar, Dumfries and Gal-
loway, Banff, Nairn and Elgin, Berwick, Rox-
burgh and Selkirk.
Secretary, J. M. Duncan, advocate.
Engineers for New Works, David Stevenson,
F.RS.E., M.I.C.E., and T. Stevenson, F.RS.E.
Accountant, Geo. Steuart ; Cashier. Jas. Murdoch ;
Examiner of Accounts, Win. L. Barbour ; Super-
intendentofLightkeepers, Jas. Young; First Clerk,
Hugh Innes ; Second Clerk, Wm. Coats ; Third
Clerk, D. Ross; First Foreman of Repairs, John
Miller ; Second Foreman of Repairs, Alex Coats ;
House Officer and Housekeeper, Mr & Mrs G. Greig..
BOARD OF SUPERVISION FOR RELIEF OF
THE POOR IN SCOTLAND, AND OF
PUBLIC HEALTH.
Office, 125 George Street, Edinburgh.
Board — William Stuart Walker of Bowland,-
Chairman ; the Right Hon. Lord Provost of
Edinburgh; the Hon. Lord Frovost of Glas-
gow; the Solicitor- General of Scotland; the
Sheriffs-depute of the counties of Perth, Renfrew,
Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland; the Right Hon.
Sir Wm. Gibson-Craig of Riccarton, Bart. ; and
Wm. Smythe of Methven.
Secretary, John Skelton, advocate.
General Superintendents of the Poor, W. A. Peterkin
and Alex. Campbell.
Visiting Officer, Malcolm M'Neill.
Superintendent of Vaccine Institution, William Hus-
band, M.D.
Medical Officer under Public Health Act, Henry D.
Littlejohn, M.D.
Clerks, Class I. : Wm. Millar ; Jamos Clarke ; Wm.
Warden.
Clerks, Class II. : David Hugh Wilson, Henry
Torrance, J. N. Browne, Robert B. Barclay.
Clerks, Class III. : Thos. Stewart Ogilvy, Abijab
Murray, David Brown.
Messenger, William Knox.
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND.
Office, General Post Office— 9 to 5.
Superintendent, Captain W. St G. Burke, R.E.