Society Journal Index : Volumes 11-15 : 1877-1884

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW

TITLE	AUTHOR	DATE	VOLUME	YEAR	PAGE

VOLUME XI

On the Resonance of Cavities	Sir William Thomson, LL.D, DCL, FRS		XI	1877	1
On Some Specimens Of Steel	James Napier, FRS		XI	1877	2
On Some of the More Striking Relations of Meteorology to Public Health	Alexander Buchan		XI	1877	3
On the Comparative Prevalence of Filth-Diseases in Town and Country	James B Russell, MD		XI	1877	8
On the Regeneration of the Sulphur Employed in the Alkali Manufacture as Conducted at the Works of Messrs. Charles Tennant & Co., St. Rollox, by the “Mactear” Process	James Mactear, FCS		XI	1877	34
On an Improved System of Alkali Manufacture	James Mactear, FCS		XI	1877	44
Observations on the Contraction of Muscle on Stimulation of Nerve	John Barlow, MB, MRCSE		XI	1878	49
An Experiment on the Disinfection of Enteric Excreta	John Dougall, MD, FFPSG		XI	1878	51
Physical Life	Andrew Buchanan, MD	20 March 1878	XI	1878	53
On the Chemical and Microscopical Analysis of Unsound Wine	James R Napier, FRS and Professor J G M’Kendrick, MD	23 January 1878	XI	1878	93
Lichens Growing on Living Leaves from the Amazons	Dr J Stirton		XI	1878	99
The Constitution of Malt Liquors, and their Influence upon Digestion and Nutrition	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS	17 April 1878	XI	1878	112
On the Necessity of a General Measure of Legislation for Scotland with Regard to Public Health	W C Spens	3 April 1878	XI	1878	129
Experiments on the Relative Specific Gravities of Solid and Melted Metals, &C., at the Temperature of Fusion	Joseph Whitley	17 April 1878	XI	1878	145
Notes on Some of the Testing Operations Involved in Carrying Out the Provisions of the Alkali Acts of 1863 and 1874	James Mactear, FCS, FIC	22 April 1878	XI	1878	150
On a New Genus of Rugose Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone of Scotland	James Thomson, FGS	1 May 1878	XI	1878	161
Pauperism and the Poor Law	Andrew Wallace	1 May 1878	XI	1878	177
On the Genus Cyathaxonia and Several New Species from the Carboniferous Limestone in Scotland	James Thomson, FGS		XI	1877	193
On a New Method of Determining Several Thousand Years in Advance, the Day of the Week Corresponding to Any Given Date	James Dickson		XI	1878	257
On Purifying the Glasgow Harbour, and Rapidly Removing the Sewage	Horatio K Bromhead, ARIBA		XI	1878	267
Eleven Centuries of Chemistry	John Ferguson, MA		XI	1878	281
On the Absorbtion of Gases by Water and Other Fluids	James Snodgrass		XI	1878	300
New and Rare Lichens from India and the Himalayas	Dr James Stirton, FLS	8 January 1879	XI	1879	306
On a New Genus of Rugose Corals, from the Carboniferous Limestone of Scotland	James Thomson, FGS	8 January 1879	XI	1879	323
The “Graham Lecture” on Molecular Mobility	W Chandler Roberts, FRS	22 January 1879	XI	1879	345
Physiology of the Turkish Bath	W J Fleming, MB	5 February 1879	XI	1879	365
Remarks on the Use of the Term “Force”	Dr Henry Muirhead		XI	1879	370
Some Researches on the Reactions Involved in the Leblanc Process of Alkali Manufacture	James Mactear, FCS, FIC		XI	1879	374
On the Liquification of Gases	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS		XI	1879	399
On the Objectivity of Energy	Dr Henry Muirhead	5 March 1879	XI	1879	408
On House Drainage and Ventilation	W P Buchan, FRSSA	19 March 1879	XI	1879	414
On the Modern Munufacture and Application of Steel	J G Fairweather, CE, FSA,	2 April 1879	XI	1879	454
On Variations in the Magnetic Constituents of Minerals	J B Hannay, FRSE, FCS		XI	1879	481
On a New Method of Physico-Chemical Investigation	J B Hannay, FRSE, FCS	16 April 1879	XI	1879	484
On Certain Changes Occurring During Fossilization	J B Hannay, FRSE, FCS	16 April 1879	XI	1879	488
On the Heating and Ventilation of Turkish Baths	J L Bruce, IA	30 April 1879	XI	1879	493
Scheme for the Removal of the Sewage of Glasgow and the Adjoining Burghs	Alexander Frew	28 April 1879	XI	1879	507
On the Action of Phosphoretted Hydrogen on the Animal Organism	Dr John Clark, FCS		XI	1879	517
On Magnetic Iron Sand from the Kyles of Bute	R R Tatlock, FRSE, FCS		XI	1879	519
Minutes, Including Reports on State of the Society and on the Library, Treasurers Accounts, and Reports from Sections			XI		209
Office Bearers of Society and Committees of Council			XI		230
Office Bearers of Sections			XI		232
Obituary Notices			XI
Additions to the Library			XI		234
List of Members of the Society			XI		247
Index to Volume XI			XI


VOLUME X11

Opening Address on State and Preventive Medicine	Andrew Fergus, MD, President		XII	1879	1
On the Mechanical Transmission of Sound by Wires, and on Simple Forms of Microphone Receivers	W J Millar, CE		XII	1879	20
Disinfection by Acids	John Dougall, MD, FFPS		XII	1879	25
On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art	James Mactear, FCS, FIC		XII	1879	43
On the Present Position of Scientific and Technical Education in Germany	E M Dixon		XII	1879	76
On a Substitute for Euclid’s Third Postulate	R F Muirhead, BSc	7 January 1880	XII	1880	112
On Daltonism	William Ramsay, PhD	7 January 1880	XII	1880	118
On Experiments with Reference to Change of Volume of Certain Bodies on Being Melted	Henry Muirhead, MD	7 January 1880	XII	1880	121
On the Volumes of Solid and Liquid Cast Iron, with Reference to the Theories of Volcanic Action	J B Hannay, FRSE, FCS	7 January 1880	XII	1880	126
An Experimental Investigation into the Trap and Water-closet System, and the Relation of the Same to Sewage Products, Gaseous and Other	Neil Carmichael, MD, CM		XII	1880	132
On Provident Dispensaries as a Means for Promoting the Public Health	James Christie, AM, MD	3 March 1880	XII	1880	167
On Improvements in Gas Stoves	James Adams, MD, LRCSE, FFPSG	17 March 1880	XII	1880	190
On the Heating Power of Coal Gas of Different Qualities	Dr Wallace		XII	1879	208
On the Ventilation of the Rooms of Houses, with Experiments	Horatio Bromhead, IA, ARIBA	31 March 1880	XII	1880	211
On the Pellets Occasionally Found in Pig and Foundry Iron	Robert R Tatlock, FRSE, FCS	5 April 1880	XII	1880	219
Note on the Composition of a Peculiar Water	Dr W Wallace, FRSE	5 April 1880	XII	1880	222
On the Condition in Which Sulphur Exists in Coal	Dr W Wallace, FRSE	5 April 1880	XII	1880	223
Contributions to our Knowledge of the Rugose Corals from the Carboniferous Limestone of Scotland	James Thomson, FGS	14 April 1880	XII	1880	225
The Physiology of Sleep, with a Consideration of the Different Theories Propounded as to its Cause, and the Suggestion of a New View of the Subject	John Glaister, MB, LRCPS	14 April 1880	XII	1880	262
On the Conveyance of the Contagium of Anthrax to Hair factory Workers, as Illustrative of the Particulate Theory of the Contagia	Dr J B Russell	28 April 1880	XII	1880	293
The Mud of the Clyde	Dr R Angus Smith, FRS	5 May 1880	XII	1880	321
Sewage, Sewerage and Drainage, Scientific and Sanitary, versus Unscientific and Unsanitary Sewerage and Drainage, with an Exposition of the New Pneumatic (Shone’s) Sewerage System	Isaac Shone, CE, FGS		XII	1880	339
On the Distribution and Condensation of Gases in the Leaden Chamber	James Mactear, FCS, FIC	7 April 1879	XII	1879	363
Minutes, Including Reports on State of the Society and on the Library, Treasurers Accounts, and Reports from Sections			XII		390
Office-Bearers of Society and Committees of Council			XII		427
Office-Bearers of Sections			XII		429
Obituary Notice			XII		431
Additions to the Library			XII		435
List of Members of the Society			XII		443
Index to Volume XII, No.1			XII		534


VOLUME XIII (No.1)

Opening Address- Sketch of the Early Years of the Society	Andrew Fergus, MD, President		XIII		1
Suggestions as to Amendment of Various Franchises, and Improvement in Mode of Levvying and Collecting Rates and Assessments in Scotland	William Campbell		XIII	1880	20
On Certain Seeming Relations Between the Three Larger Planets Crossing in Front of the Sun’s March, &c.	Henry Muirhead, MD		XIII	1880	34
The Chemistry of Sewage Precipitation	Dr William Wallace		XIII	1880	46
Opening Address to the Architectural Section	David Thomson, FRIBA		XIII	1880	71
Some Observations on the Colouring Matter of Jellyfishes	John M’Kendrick, MD		XIII	1880	90
Report by R F Muirhead to the British Association			XIII	1880	93
An Ether Percolator for Estimation of Fats, &c., in Organic Substances	Donald Macphail, MB, CM	5 January 1881	XIII	1881	95
On a Method of Foretelling the Quality of Wheat Harvests by the Wheat Blossoms	St John Vincent Day, CE	5 January 1881	XIII	1881	99
On the Action of Anaesthetics	John G M’Kendrick, MD	5 January 1881	XIII	1881	102
The History of Selenium, and its Action in the Bell Photophone, with Description of a Recently-designed Form	Andrew Jamieson, CE	19 January 1881	XIII	1881	109
On Mortality Tables: Introducing a New Table of Mortality	Arch. Hewat	2 February 1881	XIII	1881	121
The Wire Telephone	James Blyth, MA		XIII	1881	133
Visible Speech and its Application to the Teaching of the Deaf	T H Jones	2 March 1881	XIII	1881	137
Artificial Indigo	Arthur G Perkin	7 March 1881	XIII	1881	141
Analysis of Soaps	Cornelius Hope	4 April 1881	XIII	1881	150
On a Large-Index Barometer	Alexander Scott	30 March 1881	XIII	1881	154
Some Observations on our Present Methods of Disposal of Human Excreta and their Relation to the Spread of Epidemic Disease	Eben. Duncan, MD, FFPSG	30 March 1881	XIII	1881	156
On Vegetable Parasites on the Tea Plant, more Especially that of Asssam	James Stirton, MD, FLS	27 April 1881	XIII	1881	181
On the Genus Alveolites, Amplexus and Zaphrentis, from the Carboniferous System of Scotland	James Thomson, FGS	27 April 1881	XIII	1881	194
Minutes of Session			XIII		238
Annual Report for 1879-80			XIII		241
Library Committee’s Report 1879-80			XIII		245
Abstract of Treasurer’s Statement. 1879-80			XIII		248
Report of the Architectural Section			XIII		266
Report of the Biological Section			XIII		267
Report of the Chemical Section			XIII		267
Report of the Sanitary and Social Economy Section			XIII		268
List of Office-Bearers of Society			XIII		270
Committees Appointed by the Council			XIII		270
List of Office-Bearers of Sections			XIII		272
Additions to the Library			XIII		274
List of Societies with which the Philosophical Society of Glasgow Exchanges Proceedings			XIII		279
List of Periodicals			XIII		282
List of Members			XIII		284
Index			XIII		295
VOLUME XIII (NO. 2)			XIII
Opening Address	Dr William Wallace, President		XIII	1881	299
Electric and Photometric Tests of Swan’s Incandescent Lamps	Andrew Jamieson, CE		XIII	1881	318
In Memorium. David Foulis			XIII	1881	325
The Decade 1871-80, in Glasgow: a Sanitary Retrospect	James B Russell, BA, MD		XIII	1881	329
Report: Gathering of Delegates from Other Scientific Societies Attending Meeting at York, August, 1881			XIII	1881	349
On an Apparatus for Studying the Work Done by a Frog’s Muscle	J M’Gregor-Robertson, MA, MB		XIII	1881	350
Microbes in Fermentation, Putrefaction, and Disease	Charles Cameron, MD, LL.D, MP		XIII	1881	253
On the Present State of Opinion as to Animal Electricity	J M’Gregor-Robertson, MA, MB	18 January 1882	XIII	1882	374
An Enquiry into the Prevalence of Smallpox in Kilmarnock in the Last Century	John C M’Vail, MD	1 February 1882	XIII	1882	386
A Cheap Form of Voltaic Battery	Alfred R Bennett	1 February 1882	XIII	1882	401
Opening Address to the Chemical Section	James Mactear, FCS, FIC		XIII	1881	409
On the Occurrence of Opal in the Colony of Queeensland, and the Geological and Physical Aspects of the Country in which they are Found	James K M Robertson, MD, FGS, FRGS	23 January 1882	XIII	1882	427
Opening Address to the Architectural Section	James Sellars Jun., IA	28 January 1882	XIII	1882	443
On a Changing Tesselated Structure in Certain Liquids	Professor James Thomson, LL.D, FRS		XIII	1882	464
On the Cause of the Calm Lines Often Seen in a Rippled Sea	Professor James Thomson, LL.D, FRS		XIII	1882	468
On a New Family of Rugose Corals, Including the Genera Cylophyllum, Aulophyllum; and on the Genus Clisiophyllum	James Thomson, FGS	1 March 1882	XIII	1882	471
The Works of the Late Charles Wilson	David Thomson, IA, FRIBA	13 March 1882	XIII	1882	552
Action of Ammonia on Fats at a High Temperature	T A Whitelaw	20 March 1882	XIII	1882	570
The Composition of Some Fossil Eggs from the Peruvian Guano Deposits	John Clark, PhD, FCS, FIC	20 March 1882	XIII	1882	573
Notes on Some Investigations in Chemical Physics	J B Hannay, FRSE, FIC	29 March 1882	XIII	1882	576
Report of Examination of a Diseased Salmon from Loch Tay, Received 4th March, 1882	John Dougall, MD	12 April 1882	XIII	1882	584
On the Mode of Mental Inter-communication in Thought-willing and Thought-reading	Henry Muirhead, MD	12 April 1882	XIII	1882	585
Minutes of Session			XIII		592
Annual Report of Council for 1880-81			XIII		597
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for 1880-81			XIII		598
Librarian’s Report			XIII		600
Report of the Architectural Section for Session 1881-82			XIII		618
Report of the Biologial Section for Session 1881-82			XIII		620
Report of the Chemical Section for Session 1881-82			XIII		620
Report of the the Sanitary and Social Economy Section for Session 1881-82			XIII		621
List of Office-Bearers of the Society			XIII		623
Members of Committees Appointed by the Council			XIII		623
List of Office-Bearers of Sections			XIII		624
Additions to the Library			XIII		626
List of Societies and of Publications with which Exchanges are made			XIII		631
List of Periodicals			XIII		634
List of Members for 1881-82			XIII		636
Index			XIII		647


Volume XIV

On Insensibility Arising from a Deficiency of Oxygen in the Air	William Wallace, PhD, FRSE, FIC, FCS, President		XIV	1882	1
On Technical Education	David Sandeman and E M Dixon, BSc		XIV	1882	4
On the Decay of Building Stones	William Wallace, President	29 January 1883	XIV	1883	22
On Some New Infusoria	William Milne, MA, BSc	31 January 1883	XIV	1883	32
Note on a Simple Form of Lippmann’s Capillary Electrometer, Useful to Physiologists	John G M’Kendrick, MD	17 January 1883	XIV	1883	37
On Milk and Milk Pollution	John Dougall, MD		XIV	1882	41
On Struthers’ Patent for Pulverising Diamondiferous Ore	Wallace Fairweather, CE	31 January 1883	XIV	1883	48
On the use of Litmus, Methyl Orange, Phenacetolin and Phenolphthalein as Indicators	Robert T Thomson	22 January 1883	XIV	1883	56
Approximative Photometric Measurements of Sun, Moon, Cloudy Sky and Electric, and Other Artificial Lights	Sir William Thomson, FRS		XIV	1882	80
On the Preservation of Food by Cold	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS	17 January 1883	XIV	1883	86
On the Clauses in the Draft Glasgow Police Bill which have Reference to the Prevention and Mitigation of Disease	Eben. Duncan, MD, FFPSG		XIV	1882	99
The Ships and Shipping Trade of Great Britain	Nathaniel Dunlop		XIV	1883	132
Some Account of the Iron Ore Industry of the North of Spain	James G Jenkins, MI and S		XIV	1882	161
On the Use of Rosolic Acid as an Indicator, with Additional Notes on Phenolphthalein and Methyl Orange	Robert T Thomson	19 March 1883	XIV	1883	173
Closing Address to the Architectural Section	James Sellars Jun, IA	26 March 1883	XIV	1883	180
The Water Highways of the Interior of Africa, with Notes on Slave Hunting and the Means of its Suppression	James Stevenson, FRGS	28 March 1883	XIV	1883	197
On a New Apparatus for Recording the Time of Occurrence, the Duration and the Nature and Magnitude of the Motions of an Earthquake	Thomas Gray, BSc, FRSE		XIV	1883	221
The Fertilisation of Flowers	Professor Alex S Wilson, MA, BSc,	11 April 1883	XIV	1883	225
On Algin: a New Substance Obtained from Some of the Commoner Species of Marine Algae	Edward C C Stanford, FCS	2 April 1883	XIV	1883	241
Address to the Chemical Section	Robert R Tatlock, FRSE, FIC, FCS	5 February 1883	XIV	1883	257
Notes on Nitro-Glycerine, Dynamite and Blasting Gelatine	Georger M’Roberts	25 April 1883	XIV	1883	273
On the Action of Heat and the Chlorides of Phosphorus upon the Watersalts of Hypophosphorous, Phosphorous and Phosphoric Acids	Otto Richter, PhD	2 April 1883	XIV	1883	288
Volumetric Process for the Estimation of Cobalt and Nickel	John Clark, PhD, FIC, FCS	19 March 1883	XIV	1883	293
On the Development and Generic Relations of the Corals of the Carboniferous System of Scotland	James Thomson, FGS	14 March 1883	XIV	1883	296
Minutes of Session			XIV		521
Annual Report of Council for 1881-82			XIV		524
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for 1881-82			XIV		526
Report of the Library Committee			XIV		528
Report of Committee Appointed to Prepare a Draft Constitution &c., for the Geographical and Ethnological Section			XIV		539
Memorials Regarding the Amendment of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867			XIV		544
Report of the Architectural Section for Session 1882-83			XIV		546
Report of the Biologial Section for Session 1882-83			XIV		547
Report of the Sanitary and Social Economy Section for Session 1882-83			XIV		548
Report of the Chemical Section for Session 1882-83			XIV		548
Statement of Cost of Buildings, Adelaide Place, 207 Bath Street			XIV		550
Statement Regarding Geographical and Ethnological Section			XIV		552
Petition Regarding Amendment of Patent Laws			XIV		553
List of Office-Bearers of the Society			XIV		555
List of Members of Committees Appointed by the Council			XIV		556
List of Office-Bearers of Sections			XIV		557
Additions to the Library			XIV		559
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are Made			XIV		563
List of Periodicals			XIV		566
List of Members for 1882-83			XIV		568
Index			XIV		579


VOLUME XV

Address to the Chemical Section	Robert Tatlock, FRSE,FIC, FCS		XV	1883	1
Technical Education, with Special Reference to the Requirement of Glasgow and the West of Scotland	Henry Dyer, CE, MA		XV	1883	18
On Geography and Ethnology	W G Blackie, PhD, FRGS	5 March 1884	XV	1884	55
On the Use of Litmus, Rosolic Acid, Methyl-Orange, Phenacetolin and Phenolphthalein as Indicators, Part II	Robert T Thomson		XV	1883	63
Note on an Easy and Rapid Method of Determining the Specific Gravity of Solids	James J Dobbie, MA, DSc and John Hutcheson	2 April 1884	XV	1884	82
Note on Mr Joseph Whitley’s Centrifugal Mode of Casting Steel Plates for Shipbuilding, &c.	Dr Henry Muirhead, President	2 April 1884	XV	1884	86
Presentation of a Model in Bronze of Cleopatra’s Needle	Dr Henry Muirhaed, President	2 April 1884	XV	1884	88
On a New Method of Measuring the Heat-Conducting Power of Various Materials, such as Cotton, Wool, Hair, &c.	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS	23 January 1884	XV	1884	90
On a New Thermometer or Thermoscope	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS	23 January 1884	XV	1884	94
On the Measurement of Electric Currents and Potentials	Sir William Thomson, FRS	9 January 1884	XV	1884	96
Dr Allen Thomson: Sketch of his Life and Work	John G M’Kendrick, MD, FRS	30 April 1884	XV	1884	102
Note on Modern Forms of the Microscope	William Limont, MA, MB	19 March 1884	XV	1884	118
On Some of the Chief Features of the Physical Geography, Including the Geology of China, and the Bearing thereof on the Future of the Empire	Rev. Alexander Williamson, BA, LLD,	5 March 1884	XV	1884	119
On the Recent Progress of Chemistry at Home and Abroad; a Plea for the Teaching of Higher Chemistry in this Country	J J Dobbie, MA, DSc	6 February 1884	XV	1884	150
Notes on the Analysis of Commercial Carbonate of Potash	Robert Thomson	14 January 1884	XV	1884	177
A New Process for the Separation of Nickel and Cobalt	John Clark, PhD, FCS, FIC		XV	1883	183
Endless Solenoid Galvanometer and Voltometer	Professor James Blyth, MA, FRSE	30 April 1884	XV	1884	187
Abstract of Paper on the Chemical Constitution of the Methyl and Eythl Alcohols	Otto Richter, PhD	7 January 1884	XV	1884	191
On the Use of Litmus, Rosolic Acid, Methyl Orange, Phenacetolin and Phenolphthalein as Indicators, Part III	Robert T Thomson		XV	1884	194
On the Present State of our Knowledge of the Island of New Guinea	Walter G Blackie, PhD, FRGS	16 April 1884	XV	1884	202
How Smoke may be Profitably Consumed	Alexander Pinkerton	30 April 1884	XV	1884	226
Abstract of a Communication “On the Prevalence of Rickets in the City of Glasgow and in the West of Scotland, and the Relation of Rickets to the Food and Water Used”	James Thomson, FGS	2 April 1884	XV	1884	232
The Life and Works of Thomas Graham, DCL, FRS	Dr Robert Angus Smith, FRS		XV	1884	260
Reports of Sections			XV		358
Minutes of Session			XV		362
Annual Report of Council for 1882-83			XV		367
Report of the Library Committee			XV		369
Abstract of the Treasurer’s Account for 1882-83			XV		370
List of Office-Bearers of the Society			XV		388
List of Members of Council Appointed by the Council			XV		389
List of Office-Bearers of Sections			XV		390
Additions to the Library			XV		392
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are Made			XV		395
List of Periodicals			XV		398
List of Members for 1883-84			XV		400
Index			XV		412

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