Philosophical Society of Edinburgh

found: Its Essays and observations, physical and literary, read before a society in Edinburgh, and published by them, 1754-1756:v. 1, p. viii (society ... secretaries, Mr. Alexander Monro ... Mr. David Hume)

found: Dict. of scientific biog.(cf. Monro, Alexander, primus; Monro was secretary in 1732 to the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge [no publs. in LC database]; scope of society widened in 1737 and it was renamed the Society for Improving Philosophy and Natural Knowledge, or the Philosophical Society; Monro elected joint secretary with David Hume in 1752; society became the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783)

found: Britannica 11(cf. Societies, Learned; from the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, 1731, was developed the Royal Society of Edinburgh whose charter is dated 3/29/1783)

found: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Volume 1, 1788:p. 5-7 (In Edinburgh, a Society was instituted in 1731, for the improvement of medical knowledge ... in 1739, Mr MacLaurin, professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh ... extended its subjects with philosophy and literature; The institution was known as The Society for Improving Arts and Sciences, or more generally, by The Philosophical Society of Edinburgh; its meetings were disrupted by disorders in the country during the rebellion of 1745; the meetings of the Society renewed around 1752; its meetings languished again until about the year 1777; the Royal Society of Edinburgh was incorporated by charter in 1783)