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

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his scholarship, his geniality and his ready wit he endeared
himself to his colleagues on the Council as to all his friends.
The Council are much concerned at the slowness with
which the Society’s volumes pass through the press. At
the time of last year’s report the Accounts of the Collectors
of the Thirds of Benefices, edited by Dr. Gordon Donaldson,
was already in proof apart from the index. It is now being
bound and should be issued to members shortly.
Miscellany Volume VIII, to be issued for the year 1948-
49, has (except one item) been with the printer for some
months and it is hoped that proofs may soon be forth¬
coming. It will include Early Monastic Charters, edited
by Dr. D. E. Easson ; Letter of James III to the Duke of
Burgundy, edited by Mr. John Armstrong; The English
Army at Flodden, edited by Professor J. D. Mackie;
Letter from Lord Chancellor Glamis to Theodore Beza,
edited by Dr. Gordon Donaldson ; Documents Relating to
the Grandson of Prince Charles Edward, edited by Miss
Henrietta Tayler ; and Papers of a Renfrewshire Farm,
edited by Dr. G. S. Pryde.
For 1949-50 the Council propose to issue a volume of
Scottish Population Statistics, edited by Mr. J. G. Kyd, for
1950-51 Kirkintilloch Burgh Court Book, 1658-1694, edited
by Dr. G. S. Pryde, and for 1951-52 Letters of James IV,
edited by Mr. R. L. Mackie. For a later volume they are
considering the issue of Report {and Continuation) of the
Proceedings of the Convention of Estates in Scotland—a
periodical printed in London from March 1689 to October
1690, and consisting altogether of 147 numbers. While
some separate numbers are contained in various libraries,
only one seems to possess a complete set bound together.
Professor J. D. Mackie, having completed the normal
period of four years, has retired from the chairmanship of