Question: How did Jocelyn Bell Burnell succeed John Arbuthnott as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh?
Sentence (from "Andrew Douglas Maclagan"): He served as president of 5 learned societies: the Royal Medical Society (1832), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1859–61), the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1884–87), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1890–5), and the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (1900).
Relevant evidence: No