Society Journal Index : Volumes 16-20 : 1884-1889

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW

TITLE	AUTHOR	DATE	VOLUME	YEAR	PAGE

VOLUME XVI

Feeling and Perception of Relation	Henry Muirhead, MD, President		XVI	1884	1
The Proper Motions of the Stars	Robert Grant, LLD, FRS		XVI	1884	22
On the First Editions of the Chemical Writings of Democritus and Synesius	John Ferguson, MA		XVI	1884	36
On the Composition of Ocean Water	W Dittmar, FRSS		XVI	1884	47
The Regulation of the Water Supply to Cities and Towns	William Key		XVI	1884	74
On a Shadowless Gas Ventilator	George A Buchanan	9 January 1885	XVI	1885	89
African Colonies and Colonization, with Notices of recent Annexations	J E Carlisle	7 January 1885	XVI	1885	94
Memoir of Mr James Napier		21 January 1885	XVI	1885	172
On a New Musical Instrument	Thomas Machell	21 January 1885	XVI	1885	185
Description of a New Rotiferon, Male and Female	W Milne, MA, BSc	4 February 1885	XVI	1885	188
A Theory of Storm Travel	P Alexander, MA		XVI	1885	194
National and Local Precautions Against Cholera	James Christie, AM, MD	21 January 1885	XVI	1885	203
On an Air or Gas Thermometer, Suitable for Measuring Temperatures out of the Range of Mercurial or Alcohol Thermometers	J J Coleman, FCS, FIC	4 March 1885	XVI	1885	220
An Account of Some Experiments on the Effects of Very Low Temperatures on the Putrefactive Process, and on Some Vital Phenomena	J J Coleman, FCS, FIC and John G M’Kendrick, MD, LLD, FRS	4 March 1885	XVI	1885	223
On the Liquifaction of Atmospheric Air and Other Effects of Extreme Cold; and on Artificial Light and Other Phenomena of High Temperature	J J Coleman, FCS, FIC	18 March 1885	XVI	1885	232
Address to the Architectural Section	James Sellars, IA		XVI	1884	245
Egyptian Obelisks	T L Patterson, FIC,FCS	4 February 1885	XVI	1885	266
On the First Editions of the Chemical Writings of Democritus and Synesius	Professor Ferguson		XVI	1885	287
On Producing Cast Steel or Ingot Iron from Crude or Pig Iron	William Gorman	15 April 1885	XVI	1885	289
On the Heat-Restoring Gas Furnace and Heating by Radiation	William Gorman	15 April 1885	XVI	1885	297
An Enquiry into the Necessity for Legislative Reform in Scotland in Regard to Uncertified Deaths	John Glaister, MB, FFPSG	29 April 1885	XVI	1885	305
On Manure Poisoning, with Suggestions for the Prevention of the Pollution of Wells in Agricultural Districts	Eben. Duncan, MD, FFPSG	29 April 1885	XVI	1885	328
On the Form of the Human Skull at Different Ages and in Different Nationalities	John Clelland, MD, LLD	26 March 1885	XVI	1885	341
Reports of Sections			XVI		353
Minutes of Session			XVI		358
Annual Report of Council for 1883-84			XVI		360
Abstract of the Treasurer’s Account for 1883-84			XVI		362
Report of the Library Committee			XVI		364
List of Office-Bearers of Society			XVI		381
List of Members of Committees Appointed by the Council			XVI		282
List of Office-Bearers of Sections			XVI		383
Additions to the Library			XVI		385
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XVI		388
List of Periodicals			XVI		391
List of Members for 1884-85			XVI		393
Inventory of Property Belonging to the Society			XVI		405
Index			XVI		409


VOLUME XVII

On Ferran’s Anti-Cholera Innoculation	Charles Cameron, MD, LL.D, MP		XVII	1885	1
South Africa and the Africanders	Arthur Kay		XVII	1885	17
On the Verification of Traditions Regarding the First Peopling of Certain Islands in the South Pacific	George A Turner, MD, CM		XVII	1885	32
Telephone Exchanges and How They are Wrought	D Sinclair		XVII	1885	39
New Discovery of Rich Cannel Coal Near Bathgate	John Mayer		XVII	1885	50
The Rainfall of the British Islands	Alexander Buchan, MA		XVII	1885	54
The Present Position of the Museum and Art Galleries of Glasgow	Bailie James Hunter Dickson and James Paton, FLS	3 February 1886	XVII	1886	64
On Technical Education from an Architectural Point of View	William Landless		XVII	1885	78
China’s Northern Dependencies and Colonial Possessions	John Dudgeon, MD, CM	27 January 1886	XVII	1886	92
On the Defectiveness of the Eye Spot as a Means of Generic Distinction in the Philodinaea, with a Description of Two Other Rotifera	William Milne, MA, BSc	3 February 1886	XVII	1886	134
Description of a New Signal for River Piers and Railways	George S Buchanan	3 March 1886	XVII	1886	146
On an Electric Safety Lamp for Miners	Joseph W Swan, MA		XVII	1886	151
Observations on the Early Guilds of Merchants and Craftsmen	James D Marwick, LL.D, FRSE	17 March 1886	XVII	1886	159
Note on the Australian Aboriginies being Exhibited in Glasgow in March 1886	John Glaister, MD, FFPSG	3 March 1886	XVII	1886	182
On Birds with Supernumerary Legs and on Abcaudal Fisssion and Ancephalus, with Biological Reflections	Professor John Cleland, MD, LL.D, DSc, FRS	3 February 1886	XVII	1886	192
On a New Form of Galvanometer	Professor James Blyth, MA, FRSE		XVII	1886	204
The First History of Chemistry	John Ferguson, MA	6 January 1886	XVII	1886	206
Enquiry into the Effects of Loud Sounds Upon the Hearing of Boilermakers and Others who Work Amid Noisy Surroundings	Thomas Barr, MD	3 March 1886	XVII	1886	223
The Riches of the Sea	C A Salstrom	17 March 1886	XVII	1886	240
The Epidemic History of Glasgow During the Century 1783-1883	John Glaister, MD,	14 April 1886	XVII	1886	259
On an Automatic Photo-Printing Machine	John Urie	14 April 1886	XVII	1886	293
On the Tribe of Beqa’s Alleged Power of Walking Through Fire	Robert Blyth, CA	28 April 1886	XVII	1886	297
On the Relative Merits of Tile and Cast-Iron Drain Pipes	Gilbert Thomson. MA, CE	28 April 1886	XVII	1886	301
The Physical and Biological Conditions of the Seas and Estuaries About North Britain	John Murray, PhD, VPRSE	31 March 1886	XVII	1886	306
Hermaphroditic Malformation of the External Genital Organs of the Female, with Remarks Upon the so-called “Transverse Hermaphroditism”	John Yule Mackay, MD	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	334
Genito-Urinary Malformations Consequent on Pelvic Deformities	John Yule Mackay, MD	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	340
The Arterial System of the Chamaeleon	John Yule Mackay, MD	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	353
The Arteries of the Head and Neck and the Rete Mirablile of the Porpoise (Phocoena Communis)	John Yule Mackay, MD	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	366
On the Morphology of the Cervical Articular Pillars, and on a Lock Limiting Extension of the Neck	R Bruce Young, MA, MB, CM	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	377
On Development and Abnormal Arrangement of the Intestine	R Bruce Yung, MA, MB, CM	12 May 1886	XVII	1886	385
On the Lucigen: a New Industrial Light	J B Hannay, FRSE	18 April 1886	XVII	1886	393
Reports of Sections			XVII		404
Minutes of Session			XVII		410
Annual Report of Council for 1884-85			XVII		413
Abstract of Treasurer’s Accounts for 1884-85			XVII		141
Account of Graham Medal and Lecture Fund			XVII		416
Report of the Library Committee			XVII		420
Office-Bearers of the Society			XVII		440
Committees Appointed by the Council			XVII		441
Office Bearers of Sections			XVII		442
Additions to the Library			XVII		445
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are Made			XVII		449
List of Periodicals Received			XVII		452
List of Members for 1885-86			XVII		454
Inventory of Property Belonging to the Society			XVII		466
Index			XVII		467


VOLUME XVIII

On the Development of the Marine Engine	Henry Dyer, CE, MA		XVIII	1886	1
On Abbe’s Apochromatic Micro-Objectives and Compensating Eye-Pieces	Adolf Schulze		XVIII	1886	28
On Preliminary Experiments on the Effects of Percussion in Changing the Magnetic Moments of Steel Magnets	William Brown		XVIII	1886	41
On a New Tentaculiferous Protozoon and Other Infusoria	William Milne, MA, BSc,FRSE		XVIII	1886	48
On the Manners and Customs of Some of the Tribes of New Guinea	Rev James Chalmers		XVIII	1886	57
Report from the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies at the Birmingham Meeting of the British Association	Henry Muirhead		XVIII	1886	70
On the Progress of Technical Education, with Special Reference to the Glasgow Weaving College	David Sandeman		XVIII	1886	73
On Coal-gas and the Coal Question, in its Bearings on the Illuminating Power of Gas	William Key		XVIII	1886	87
Notes on the Bursting of Leaden Service Pipes by Water and Frost	George C Thomson, FCS	5 January 1887	XVIII	1887	102
On Geographical Alto-Relievo Models, and their Place in Education	William Martin	2 February 1887	XVIII	1887	108
Graham Lecture: On Certain Modern Developments of Graham’s Ideas Concerning the Constitution of Matter	T E Thorpe, PhD, BSc, VP, CS, FRS	16 March 1887	XVIII	1887	118
An Examination of the Report of the Royal Commission on Depression of Trade (Inaugural Address of Economic Science Section)	Charles Gairdner	2 March 1887	XVIII	1887	133
On the Aboriginal Australian, as he was	Athur Kay	2 February 1887	XVIII	1887	146
Note on a Class of Definite Integrals	George A Gibson, MA	3 February 1887	XVIII	1887	167
Some Minor Rights of Land Ownership	Archibald Ferguson		XVIII	1887	170
On Liquid Diffusion	J J Coleman, FIC, FCS, FRSE	16 March 1887	XVIII	1887	196
On the Gothic Version of the Gospels by Bishop Ulfilas and its Value in the Study of Language	James Colville, MA, DSc	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	207
On Approximate Formulae for the Motion of Projectiles	Peter Alexander, MA		XVIII	1886	237
How to Use the Polariscope in the Practical Determination of Internal Stress and Strain	Peter Alexander, MA	3 February 1887	XVIII	1887	242
On a Double Chain of Electrical Measuring Instruments to Measure Currents	Sir William Thomson, FRS	20 April 1887	XVIII	1887	249
On the Reform of our Present Methods of Disposal of the Dead	Eben. Duncan, MD	27 April 1887	XVIII	1887	257
On the late Robert Gray, VP, RSE	J B Murdoch, FRPhSE	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	279
On the Reducing Action of Hydrogen in the Presence of Platinum	Stephen Cooke, FCS	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	284
Note on the Action of Electric Sparks in Mixtures of Nitric Oxide with Hydrogen and Other Inflammable Gases	Stephen Cooke, FCS	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	294
Note on the Decomposition of Nitric Oxide in Water and Alkaline Solutions	Stephen Cooke, FCS	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	299
On the Arterial System of Vertebrates Homologically Considered	John Mackay, MD	30 March 1887	XVIII	1887	302
Note on the Morphological Peculiarity of Cordyline Australis	Professor F O Bower, DSc, FLS	30 March 1897	XVIII	1887	317
On Humbolditia Lauriflia (Vahl), as a Myrmekophilous Plant	Professor F O Bower, DSc, FLS	30 March 1887	XVIII	1887	320
On Biological Teaching In Germany and in this Country	J H Fullerton, MA, BSc	4 May 1887	XVIII	1887	327
On the Physical Conditions of the Water in the Clyde Sea-Area	Hugh Robert Mill, DSc, FRSE, FCS		XVIII	1887	332
Introduction of Sea Water into Glasgow	John Anderson	2 March 1887	XVIII	1887	357
On Foulis’ Gas Fire: A New Departure in Using Gaseous Fuel for Domestic Purposes		5 January 1887	XVIII	1887	365
On Experimental Research on the Artificial Cultivation of Vaccine Lymph	Neil Carmichael, MD	19 January 1887	XVIII	1887	369
Automatic Electrical Lighting of Trains	Thomas P Carswell, CE	13 April 1887	XVIII	1887	391
Reports of Sections			XVIII		397
Minutes of Session			XVIII		404
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for 1885-86			XVIII		406
Account of Graham Medal and Lecture Fund			XVIII		408
Annual Report of Council for 1885-86			XVIII		409
Report of the Library Committee			XVIII		412
Office-Bearers of the Society			XVIII		432
Committees Appointed by the Council			XVIII		433
Office-Bearers of Sections			XVIII		434
Additions to the Library			XVIII		437
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XVIII		441
List of Periodicals Received			XVIII		444
List of Members of 1886-87			XVIII		446
Inventory of Property Belonging to the Society			XVIII		458
Index			XVIII		459


VOLUME XIX

President’s Address – On Some Socialogical Aspects of Sanitation	James B Russell, MA, MD, LL.D		XIX	1887	1
Factory Industry and Socialism	William Smart, MA		XIX	1887	22
The Technical Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887, and Some of its Relations to Elementary and Higher Education	Henry Dyer, CE, MA		XIX	1887	46
On the Modern Cell Theory, and the Phenomena of Fecundation	John Gray M’Kendrick, MD, LL.D, FRS. FRSE, FRCPE		XIX	1887	71
Some Early Treatises on Technological Chemistry	John Ferguson, MA	6 January 1886	XIX	1886	126
The Heeling Error of the Compass in Iron Ships	William Bottomley	11 January 1888	XIX	1888	160
Public Museums as Aids in Teaching	James Colville, MA, DSc	11 January 1888	XIX	1888	164
On the Training of Architectural Students	Francis H Newberry		XIX	1887	176
“Greek Thomson”	Thomas Gildard	30 January 1888	XIX	1888	191
Early Sculpture in Scotland	Robert Brydall		XIX	1888	210
On the River Plate System	John Galloway	7 March 1888	XIX	1888	226
Biographical Notice of the late Dr Andrew Fergus	Eben Duncan, MD		XIX	1887	245
On the Spread of Enteric Fever and Possibly Diptheria, in Rural Districts, by the Use of City Manure for Agricultural Purposes (Abstract)	David Pryde	4 April 1888	XIX	1888	254
Some Important Points in the Sanitary Work of a Great City	Peter Fyfe	11 April 1888	XIX	1888	257
On a New Composite Electric Balance	Sir William Thomson, FRS	4 February 1888	XIX	1888	273
The Constitution and Course of the Money Market	Charles Gairdner		XIX	1888	275
On the Measurement of Electric Currents by the Electrolytic Deposition of Copper	Andrew W Meikle		XIX	1888	291
On Noxious Vapours and Town Smoke, with Suggestions on House Warming	Alfred E Fletcher, FCS, FIS	25 January 1888	XIX	1888	297
A Set of New Ring-off Instruments for Telephone Exchanges, &c	D Sinclair		XIX	1887	308
On Some of the Social and Economical Aspects of the Land Question in Wales	Henry Jones, MA	4 April 1888	XIX	1888	310
American Currency	Andrew S M’Clelland, CA	6 February 1888	XIX	1888	324
On an Improved Form of Seismograph	Thomas Gray, BSc, FRSE		XIX	1888	330
A Demonstration in Bacteriology, Illustrative of the Mode of Growth and Cultivation of Micro-organisms Found in Air, Earth and Water	A Ernest Maylard, BS, MB	25 March 1888	XIX	1888	342
The Dulcitone; a New and Portable Musical Instrument	Thomas Machell	2 May 1888	XIX	1888	360
On the Application of Wind Power to the Generation and Storage of Electricity	Professor James Blyth, MA, FRSE	2 May 1888	XIX	1888	363
On the Electrical Resistance of Slate and Marble and Other Materials, With Reference to their Use in Electric Light Fittings	Thomas Sheilds, MA	2 May 1888	XIX	1888	365
Report of the Society’s Representative at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College		2 May 1888	XIX	1888	373
Report of the Delegate to the British Association – Manchester, 1887		2 May 1888	XIX	1888	374
Reports of Sections		2 May 1888	XIX	1888	377
Memoir of Mr David Sandeman	Henry Dyer, CE, MA		XIX		383
Minutes of Session			XIX	1887	387
Annual Report of Council for 1886-87			XIX		388
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for 1886-87			XIX		392
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund – Treasurer’s Account			XIX		394
Report of the Library Committee			XIX		395
Memorial on Burial Reform to H. M. Secretary for Scotland			XIX		410
Office-Bearers of the Society			XIX		414
Committees Appointed by the Council			XIX		415
Office-Bearers of Sections			XIX		416
Additions to the Library			XIX		419
Books Bought			XIX		421
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XIX		423
List of Periodicals Received			XIX		426
List of Members for 1887-88			XIX		428
Inventory of Property Belonging to the Society			XIX		440
Index			XIX		441


VOLUME XX

President’s Address – On the “Ticketed Houses” of Glasgow, with an Interrogation of the Facts for Guidance Towards the Ameloriation of the Lives of their Occupants	James B Russell, BA, MD, LL.D,		XX	1888	1
Sanitary and Social Problems	John Honeyman, FRIBA		XX	1888	25
Memoir of the late James Sellars, Architect	A Lindsay Miller		XX	1888	40
Rotifer as a Parasite or Tube-dweller	William Milne, MA, BSc, FRSE		XX	1888	48
The Eastman Stripping Film and Roller Slide: a Recent Development in Scientific Photography	William Lang, jun., FCS		XX	1888	54
The Movements of the Joints of the Knuckles and Balls of the Toes	Professor Cleland, MD, LL.D, FRS		XX	1888	62
The Training of Architects	Henry Dyer, CE, MA	4 February 1889	XX	1889	66
Fisheries in Relation to General Civilisation and Progress	W Anderson Smith	23 January 1889	XX	1889	87
Primitive Aryan Civilisation	James Colville, MA, DSc		XX	1888	97
On the Detection of Mural Pores in the Genus Alveolites	James Thomson, FGS		XX	1888	116
Multiplex Telephony on Long Lines	D Sinclair	6 February 1889	XX	1889	128
Agricultural Education in this Country and Abroad, with Special Reference to Germany	C M Aikman, MA, BSc, FRSE	6 February 1889	XX	1889	133
Electro-Magnetic Method of Measuring the Magnetic Constants of the Earth’s Field	A Tankadate, BSc		XX	1889	155
On Present Tendencies in Classical Studies	Professor R C Jebb, MA, LL.D,		XX	1889	168
Land Ownership in Scotland	Robert T Younger, MA, LL.B		XX	1888	177
A Scheme of Cremation Suited to the Requirements of Glasgow	James Chalmers, IA	5 January 1889	XX	1889	193
On the Acoustics of Musical Sounds	James Kerr Love	1 May 1889	XX	1889	196
On Mutual Gables	James Howatt, IM	18 March 1889	XX	1889	213
Proposal for Securing Uniformity of Action in the Exclusion from Day Schools of Children Coming from Families Affected with Contagious Diseases	Dr James Finlayson	3 April 1889	XX	1889	216
The Wiring of Buildings for Electric Light	J D F Andrews	20 March 1889	XX	1889	225
The Garnethill Scarlet Fever Epidemic: a Microscopical Investigation Regarding its Cause	Dr Neil Carmichael	3 April 1889	XX	1889	234
Chile – its Present Position and Future Prospects	John C Rogers	23 January 1889	XX	1889	240
An Examination of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Recent Changes in the Relative Values of Gold and Silver, with Remarks on Bi-metallism	Charles Gairdner		XX	1889	264
State Purchase of Land in Ireland	Mark Davidson, MA, LL.B	12 March 1889	XX	1889	281
The Science of Ventilation as Applied to Inhabited Interiors (Abstract)	D G Hoey	6 March 1889	XX	1889	305
On House Drains Without Ventilation (Abstract)	John Honeyman, FRIBA	6 March 1889	XX	1889	309
Proposed Scheme for the Collection, Treatment and Disposal of the Sewage of Glasgow (Abstract)	D M Nelson	20 March 1889	XX	1889	311
Biographical Notice of the late Dr William Wallace	John Mayer	9 January 1889	XX	1889	314
Biographical Notice of the late Edward Maxwell Dixon, BSc	John G Kerr, MA	1 May 1889	XX	1889	322
Joseph J Coleman	Dr M’Kendrick and John Mayer		XX	1889	328
Reports of Sections		1 May 1889	XX	1889	332
Report of Delegate to the British Association – Bath, 1888		1 May 1889	XX	1889	339
Proposed Capitalising of Life Members’ Subscriptions			XX		341
Minutes of Session			XX		343
Annual Report of Council for 1887-88			XX		344
Report of Library Committee			XX		347
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for 1887-88			XX		348
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund – Treasurer’s Account			XX		350
Office-Bearers of the Society			XX		362
Committees Appointed by the Council			XX		363
Office-Bearers of Sections			XX		364
Additions to the Library			XX		367
Books Bought			XX		368
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XX		369
List of Periodicals Received			XX		373
List of Members for 1888-89			XX		375
Inventory of Property Belonging to the Society			XX		387

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