Series 3 > Scottish population statistics, including Webster's Analysis of population, 1755

REPORT OF THE SIXTY-THIRD
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY
The Sixty-third Annual Meeting of the Society was
held in the Rooms of the Royal Society, George Street,
Edinburgh, on Saturday, 17th December 1949, at 3 p.m.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Cooper, LL.D., President of the
Society, was in the Chair.
The Report of the Council was as follows :—
It is with deep regret that the Council have to record
the death of one of the Society’s oldest and most valued
members—Dr. W. K. Dickson. Dr. Dickson joined the
Society in 1890 and was elected in 1908 to the Council,
of which he remained a member till his death, being Chair¬
man from 1934 to 1938. He edited one of the Society’s
volumes for 1894-95—The Jacobite Attempt of 1719—
and forty years later another volume—Correspondence of
Sir George Warrender. For the Miscellany Volume VI he
edited Memories of Ayrshire about 1780 by the Reverend
John Mitchell, D.D., and at the time of the Society’s jubilee
in 1936 he compiled a short history of its activities which
is bound up with Volume XXIX of the Third Series. By