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INDEX.

Achaius, Bishop, and Glasgow Cathedral,
137.
Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"
influencing Britain's progress, 68.
Agrarian partnerships of Middle Ages,
61.

Agrarian revolution in England in Tudor
period, 59.

Air, nature of, views of Lucretius and
others on, 92-97.

Alexander and M'Cosh, pioneers in am-
monia-recovery process, 135; descrip-
tion of process, 127.
Alexander III., reign of, 138.
Andes, ascent of, 147.

Anemometer specially designed by Pro-
fessor Chrystal for Ben Nevis high-
level observatory, 177.

Animal body made up of cells or corpus-
cles, 21.

Annual general meeting of Society,

192.

Antarctica, little known as to its
meteorology, 167.

Anti-toxine serum, how produced and

how used, 29; used in treatment of
pneumonia and typhoid fever, 37.
Antwerp trade finding new home in
London and Amsterdam, 64-65.
Architectural Section, President's ad-
dress, 136; report of, 188.
Argon and helium, "Graham" lecture
by Professor William Ramsay, 92;
some physical properties of, 104; are
they elements, mixtures, or compounds?
104-105; if elements, what are their
atomic weights? 105.

on,

Argon, discovery of, apparatus used in,
98; amount of, in air, 100; not a con-
stituent of animals or vegetables, 100;
good conductor of electricity, 106-107.
Armature of electric motor described,
120.

Attenuated virus of Pasteur, 27.

Baird & Co., of Gartsherrie, and Scotch
iron industry, 127.

Barrett, F. T., election of, as Vice-
President, 200.

Ben Nevis Observatories, and work done

there, by Dr. Alexander Buchan, 165.
Berthelot's supposed compound of argon,

100.

Black death of fourteenth century, 60.
Black, Dr. Joseph, on nature of air, 94.
Blackman air-propeller electrically dri-
ven, 120-121.

Blast-furnace by-products, Professor Sex-
ton on, 122.

Blast-furnaces, dotted over Lanarkshire
and Ayrshire, 122; sizes in Scotland
and Cleveland, 122; mode of working,
123.

Blood serum of animals immune to
certain infectious diseases, 25.
Board of Trade and Colonial Office,
suggestions to, regarding economic
investigations, 89.

Bondington, Bishop, the great builder of
Glasgow Cathedral, 138.

Bottomley, Dr. J. T., on discoveries of
Hertz, Lenard, and Röntgen, 156.
Boyle on nature of air, 92-95.

Britain becoming face to face with

France upon disappearance of Holland
as a great power, 67-68.

Buchan, Dr. A., on Ben Nevis Observa-
tories, 165.

Buchan, the late W. P., by James
Chalmers, 151; his early life and
apprenticeship to plumbing trade, 151;
inventor of Buchan's trap, 152; writer
on plumbing and house drainage in

66

Building News," 152; author of
plumbers' handbook in 66
"Weale's
Series," 152; his other sanitary inven-
tions, 152; his connection with the
plumbers' registration movement and
Plumbers' Congress, 153; author of
book on ventilation, 153; his connec-
tion with freemasonry and with the
Philosophical and other scientific
societies, 154-155; an ardent crema-
tionist, 154.

Bulletin International, daily publication
of, 168.

Burns, influence of, on European litera-
ture, 209.

Buys Ballot's Law as to wind and weather
changes, 168.

By-products of the blast-furnace, by Pro-
fessor A. H. Sexton, 122.

Cathode rays, passage of, through thin
metallic layers, 157.

Cavendish on nature of air, 96-97.

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Coats, Dr. Joseph, on immunity to
infective diseases, 20.

Cobra and rattlesnake poisons, 28.
Colonial settlements, English people
seeking new career in, 65.

Colour sensations, Abney's diagram of
three primary, 16.
Colour vision, Young-Helmholtz theory
of, 15.

Colville, Dr. James, on influence of

Burns on European literature, 209.
Committees appointed by Council of
Society, 211.

Conservatism of Glasgow operative plum-
bers, 151; example of, 151.
Cooking by electricity, cost of, 119.
Cotton trade of Scotland chiefly centred
in Glasgow district, 72.

Council report for Session 1894-95, 193.
Creosote oil from blast-furnace tar, uses
of, 132.

Crookes on wave length of helium, 102.
Crookes' vacuum tubes, 157.

Crosskey, Lewes R., on trade classes and
their importance to the community,
205.

Crypt of Glasgow Cathedral, vaulting of,
137.

Current of electricity, passage of, through

a conductor attended by three princi-
pal phenomena, 117.

Cuzco, ancient capital of Peru, visit to,
149.

Cyanides produced in blast-furnaces, 311
Cyclone and anti-cyclone, 168-173.

Dalton on definite proportions in chemical
combinations, 97.

Decaying industries, 88-89.

Dempster plant for dealing with blast-
furnace gases, description of, and where
used in Scotland, 130.

Diphtheria and its toxine, 30.
Disorganised competition in trade and
industry, 88.

Domestic applications of electricity, W.
B. Sayers on, 117.
Domestic hot-water

distribution and
kitchen-boiler explosions, David Fulton
on, 208.

Dove's work on the distribution of heat
on the surface of the globe, reference
to, 165.

Dumas on atomic weight of oxygen, 97.
Duncan, Dr. Eben., election of, as
President, 200.

East India Company, formation of, 64.
Economic Science Section, report of, 189.
Election of office-bearers, 200.
Electrical conductor, experiments with,
117.

Electrical cooking apparatus, 119; clean-
liness of, 120.

Electricity, domestic applications of, 117.
Electric light, installation of, in Society's
large hall, 2

Electric motors driving small machines,
120.

England a great manufacturing, com-

mercial, and colonising_country, and
why it has become so, 57.

England out-distancing her rivals in
eighteenth century, and gaining a
unique position among the great States
of Europe, 65.

Exchanges of Proceedings with other
societies, 218-224.

Experiments with argon, 105; with
helium, 106.

Fergus, Dr. Freeland, on trip to Iceland
and the Faroe Islands, 207.
Ferguson, Professor John, on Kopp as
historian of chemistry, 1; suggestions
as to centenary and future of Philo-
sophical Society, 13.

Feudal tenure, land held on, in England,
59; disappearance of, 59.
Field magnet described, 120.
Financial statement of Glasgow Improve-

ment Trust, 54-55.

Finest weather period on Ben Nevis, 184.
Flemish artisans, welcome to England as
refugees, 63.

Fog and cloud observations on Ben Nevis,
180.

Fog crystals on Ben Nevis, 184.

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Geographical and Ethnological Section,
189.

Geographical position, coast line, and
harbours of England, 57-58.

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Gillespie's plant for dealing with blast-
furnace gases, description of, 113.
Ginghams and other "fancy" goods
largely woven in Glasgow district,
73-76.

Glasgow a big pattern shop for coloured

cottons for rest of world, 75.
Glasgow Cathedral, T. L. Watson on his-
tory of structure of, 136; most impor-
tant and most interesting building in
Scotland, 136; different periods curi-
ously involved with one another in,
136; vaulting of, its chief glory and
distinction, 142.

Glasgow City Improvement Trust, in-
ception of, 39.

Glasgow cotton mills burnt down in
recent years, and not rebuilt, 77.
Glasgow, old city of, centring at the
Cross, 40.

Glasgow Science Lectures Association

Trust, lecture for session 1895-96, 165.
Glasgow Trades' Council and Women's
League in relation to women cotton
weavers, 75.

Gorbals, old burgh of, 40.

Graham's discoveries, reference to, by
Professor Ramsay, 108.

Graham lecture by Professor William
Ramsay, 92.

"Great Britain' versus "England
question, stated by Professor Lodge,
57.

Green tar from blast-furnace gases, yield-
ing lucigen and creosote oils, 132.

Hales on nature of air, 93-94.
Harris, Dr. David Fraser, on the stereo-
photochromoscope, 14.

Heating water by electricity, cost of,
118-119

Helium, discovery of, 101-103; not lique-
fiable, 103; contained in sun's chromo-
sphere and nebula of Orion, 107.

Hertz's discoveries with vacuum tubes,
Dr. Bottomley on, 157,
High-level meteorological observatories,
need for, discussed, 174.

Hoefer's Histoire de la Chemie briefly
described by Professor Ferguson, 6-7.
Holland, as antagonist to England, declin-
ing in eighteenth century, 66-67.
Honeyman's "Somerset trap," 152.
Humboldt on isothermal lines, 165.

Iceland and the Faroe Islands, holiday
trip to, by Dr. Freeland Fergus, 207.
Illustrations of Ben Nevis Observatory,

&c., notes on, by R. T. Omond, 186.
Immunity acquired or induced, 26.
Immunity to infective diseases, Dr.
Joseph Coats on, 20.

Improvement Trust: family home, 50;
dwelling-houses erected by, 51-52;
committee's building policy a question-
able but justifiable experiment, 52;
building policy, financial results of,
55.

Indian competition in jute trade, 78-81.
Infective diseases, immunity to, 20;
defined, 21.

Inoculation for smallpox, practice of,

in Constantinople, 26.

Irwin, Miss, on women's industries in
Scotland, 70.

Isobaric lines, maps of, 165.

Ives, Frederick E., of Philadelphia,
inventor of the stereophotochromo-
scope, 14.

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Leverrier, prince of metorological or-

ganisers, 168.

Levying assessments

ment rate, 45-47.

for City Improve-

Library, additions to, 214.

Library Committee's Report, 195.

Life and observing on Ben Nevis, R. T.
Omond on, 182.

Linen trade in Dunfermline, 81.

Lockyer and Frankland on spectrum of
sun's atmosphere, 101-102.

Lodge, Professor Richard, on England
a great manufacturing, commercial,
and colonising country, 57.

Loomis's map of mean annual rainfall
over the globe, 166.

Lord Blythswood's account of his experi-
ments prior to discovery of Röntgen
rays, 160.

Lord Provost Blackie and City Improve-
ment assessment, 45.
Low-level observatory station at Fort.
William taken charge of by Colin
Williamson, 175.

Lucigen oil from blast-furnace tar, 132.

Macintyre, Dr. John, on production of
shadow photographs, 161.
Magnetic field described, 120.

Male labour not much employed in
textile trades in Scotland, 72.
Mann, John, re-election of, as Treasurer,
200.

Manorial system in England in Middle
Ages, 61.

Maritime greatness of England, and
exploits of Drake, Frobisher, and
others, 64.

Mathematical and Physical Section,
report of, 190.

Maximum and minimum rainfall, how
caused, 166.

Mayer, John, re-election of, as Secretary,
200.

Mayow on nature of air, 93.

Mechanical inventions of Hargreaves,
Crompton, Arkwright, and Watt
influencing Britain's progress, 68.
Medieval England pre-eminently an
agricultural country, 58; its foreign
trade in the hands of foreigners, 58.
Members of Society, list of honorary,
227; corresponding, 228; ordinary,
228; new-

Anderson, J. B. Mackenzie, 201.
Brown, Alexander, 204.
Cassells, Robert Dunlop, 192.
Couper, Sinclair, 203.

Dowie, George, 204.

Dreghorn, David, 203.

Frazer, Samuel M'Call, 204.
Geikie, Sir Archibald, 202.

VOL. XXVII.

Members of Society-continued.
Gibson, Charles R., 192.

Houstoun, William Henry, 192.
Lamb, David, 203.
Langley, Professor S. P., 202.
Lister, Sir Joseph, 202.

Lodge, Profesor Richard, 202.
M'Bain, William C., 192.
Macdonald, John, 205.
M'Kellar, John C., 203.
Martin, James F., 202.
Mathieson, J. H., 203.
Sclanders, David, 201.
Smith, William B., 202.
Strathie, David, 202.
Thompson, G. R., 192.
Turnbull, Robert, 201.

Mercantile ideas of dealing with land in
medieval England due to lawyers and
merchants, 61.

Merchant Adventurers, Society of, 58.
Metchnikoff on phagocytosis,

Meteoric iron containing argon and
helium, 104.

Meteorological Council of Royal Society,
offer of, towards supporting Ben Nevis
Observatory, and movement for suc-
cessful establishment of, 175.
Meteorology, science of, defined, 165.
Microbes and toxine, how they differ, 22.
Mineral waters containing argon and
helium, 103.

Minutes of Session, 191.

Mist and fog on Ben Nevis, prevalence
and character of, 184.

Model lodging-houses established by
City Improvement Trust, 48.
Mountain observatories all of second-
class prior to establishment of Ben
Nevis station, 182,

Natural immunity of man and animals to
certain diseases, 24.

Negro race immune to yellow fever, 23.
Neosote, a powerful disinfectant, 132.
Netherlands (the) and manufacturing
industry, 63.

Nine-hour day experiment in Dunferm-
line linen trade, 81.
Note (supplementary) on
argon and
helium-former a single substance, the
latter a mixture, 108.

Observations made on Ben Nevis and
Fort-William, nature and comparison
of, 176; in relation to storms in North-
Western Europe, 181.

Observers' amusements on Ben Nevis,
185.

Observers' life on Ben Nevis, 183.
Oceanic circulation, recent contributions
to, 167.

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