Royal Society of Edinburgh

}} thumb|The cover of a 1788 volume of the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is the issue where [[James Hutton published his Theory of the Earth.]] The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows.