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,
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.
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,
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
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.
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-
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.
Geographical and Ethnological Section, 189.
Geographical position, coast line, and harbours of England, 57-58.
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.
Leverrier, prince of metorological or-
ganisers, 168.
Levying assessments
ment rate, 45-47.
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.
Frazer, Samuel M'Call, 204. Geikie, Sir Archibald, 202.
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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