STANFORD LIBRARY PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY BY JOHN SMITH AND SON, 1896. CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVII. II.-Note on the Stereophotochromoscope: A New Optical Instrument. By David Fraser Harris, B.Sc. (Lond.), M. B., C.M.(Glasg.), Assistant to the Professor of Physiology in the University of Glasgow, III.—Immunity to Infective Diseases: A Pathological Study in view of Recent Researches. By Joseph Coats, M.D., Professor of Pathology in the University of Glasgow, - IV. The History and the Results of the Operations of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust. By Bailie Samuel Chisholm, Convener of the Improvement Committee, V.-Why has England become a Great Manufacturing, Com- mercial, and Colonising Country? By Richard Lodge, M.A., Professor of History in the University of Glasgow, VI.-Women's Industries in Scotland. By Miss Margaret H. Irwin, Assistant Commissioner, late Royal Commission VII.-GRAHAM LECTURE. On Argon and Helium. By Professor William Ramsay, Ph.D., F. R. S., University College, London, and a former Member of the Society, VIII.--Domestic Applications of Electricity. By W. B. Sayers, IX.-The By-Products of the Blast-Furnace. By A. Humboldt Sexton, F.C.S., F.R.S. E., Professor of Metallurgy, Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, XII.-The late Mr. W. P. Buchan, Sanitary Engineer, Glasgow. XIII. THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY. On the Röntgen X Rays, or the New Photography. By Dr. J. T. Bottomley, F. R.S.; the Right Hon. Lord Blythswood; and Dr. John XIV. GLASGOW SCIENCE LECTURES ASSOCIATION TRUST LECTURE Part I.-On the Ben Nevis Observatories and the Work done there. By Alexander Buchan, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. E., Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological I.-Dr. Kopp as Historian of Chemistry: Opening Address to the [Read before the Society, 6th November, 1895.] ANOTHER year has sped away, and so swiftly, that it seems but a little time to me since I had to welcome you at the opening of a new session. Once more it is my privilege to repeat the welcome, and to congratulate this Society that while changes, inevitable changes, occur, there are always members willing and ready to take up the duties which would otherwise drop, and carry them on till a younger generation is prepared in its turn to continue the work begun so long ago. It is with a feeling of security and stability that we know that, though the personnel of the Society is ever varying, the Society itself remains; so that if those who started it could return now they would find us pursuing the aims they originally proposed, while they themselves would not be altogether strangers, however different the actual topics considered and the treatment of them may be since their time. Ninety-three years ago the modern sciences were hardly in existence. There was some chemistry, mainly of a qualitative kind; there was hardly any electricity or magnetism; heat was unstudied; geology was just beginning; meteorology was unknown; steam and VOL. XXVII. A |