Society Journal Index : Volumes 26-30 : 1894-1898

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW

TITLE	AUTHOR	DATE	VOLUME	YEAR	PAGE

President’s Opening Address: Recent Contributions to the Literature of Gold-making	Professor John Ferguson, LL.D		XXVI	1894	1
The Profit and Loss of Gold-mining: Ancient and Modern	Nicol Brown, FGS		XXVI	1894	14
The Municipal Industries of Glasgow	William Smart, MA, LL.D		XXVI	1894	36
On the First Edition of the Chemical Writings of Democritus and Synesius, with Photo. Facsimile of Title Page. Postscript to Part VI	Professor Ferguson		XXVI	1894	54
The Labour Colony System, and its Adaptation to our Social Needs	Professor R Patrick Wright, FHAS	9 January 1895	XXVI	1895	57
Notes on the Scottish Poor Law, the Unemployed, and Labour Colonies	James R Motion	6 February 1895	XXVI	1895	73
Aluminium: Is it to be the Metal of the Future?	Professor A H Sexton, FIC, MIM&M	9 January 1895	XXVI	1895	88
An Old Glasgow Architect on Some Older Ones	Thomas Gildard		XXVI	1894	97
Education and Agriculture: A Discussion on the Bearings of the Technical Education Movement on our Greatest Industry	James Hendrick, BSc, FIC, FCS		XXVI	1895	124
Smoke Abatement with Reference to Steam Boiler Furnaces	John Carruthers Thomson, FCS	6 February 1895	XXVI	1895	148
The Anti-Toxin Treatment of Diptheria	Professor John Glaister, MD, DPH	20 March 1895	XXVI	1895	174
Four Great Periods of Italian Art	T L Watson, FRIBA		XXVI	1894	200
Sugar Manufacture in Australia	Thomas Steele, FCS	1 May 1895	XXVI	1895	206
The New Rules of the Board of Trade as to Colour Testing for Mariners and Railway Servants (with Coloured Plate)	Freeland Fergus, MD	3 April 1895	XXVI	1895	212
On the Temperature Variation of the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks	Lord Kelvin, RS, and J R Erskine Murray, BSc	27 March 1895	XXVI	1895	227
On the Electrification of Air	Lord Kelvin, RS	27 March 1895	XXVI	1895	233
Reports of Sections, Session 1894-95		1 May 1895	XXVI	1895	244
Minutes of Session, 1894-95			XXVI		248
Report of Council for Session 1892-94			XXVI		250
Report of the Library Committee			XXVI		251
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account, Session 1893-94			XXVI		252
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1893-94			XXVI		254
The Science Lectures Association Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1893-94			XXVI		255
Office-Bearers of the Society			XXVI		268
Committees Appointed by the Council			XXVI		269
Office-Bearers of Sections			XXVI		270
Additions to the Library			XXVI		272
New Books Recently Added to the Library			XXVI		274
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XXVI		275
List of Periodicals Received in the Reading Room			XXVI		282
List of Members for 1894-95			XXVI		284
Index			XXVI		296


VOLUME XXVII

President’s Opening Address: Dr Kopp as Historian of Chemistry	Professor John Fergusson, LL.D		XXVII	1895	1
Note on the Stereophotochromoscope: A New Optical Instrument	David Fraser Harris, BSc, MB, CM		XXVII	1895	14
Immunity to Infective Diseases: A Pathological Study in View of Recent Researches	Professor Joseph Coats, MD		XXVII	1895	20
The History and the Results of the Operations of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust	Bailie Samuel Chisholm		XXVII	1895	39
Why has England Become a Great Manufacturing, Commercial and Colonising Country?	Richard Lodge, MA		XXVII	1895	57
Women’s Industries in Scotland	Miss Margaret H Irwin	18 March 1896	XXVII	1896	70
Graham Lecture: On Argum and Helium	Professor William Ramsay, PhD, FRS	8 January 1896	XXVII	1896	92
Domestic Applications of Electricity	W B Sayers, MInstEE	15 April 1895	XXVII	1895	117
The By-products of the Blast Furnace	A Humboldt Sexton, FCS, FRSE	1 April 1896	XXVII	1896	122
Glasgow Cathedral: A Contribution to the History of its Structure	T L Watson, FRIBA		XXVII	1895	136
Visit to Lake Titicaca, Peru	John Wilson	4 March 1896	XXVII	1896	147
The late Mr W P Buchan, Sanitary Engineer	James Chalmers, IA	15 April 1896	XXVII	1896	151
The New Photography	J T Bottomley, FRS and Dr John Macintyre, FRSE	5 February 1896	XXVII	1896	156
Glasgow Science Lectures Association Trust Lecture: Part 1 – On the Ben Nevis Observatories and the Work Done there	Alexander Buchan, MA, LL.D, FRSE		XXVII	1896	165
Glasgow Science Lectures Association Trust Lecture – Part II – Life and Observing at the Ben Nevis Observatory	R T Ormond, FRSE		XXVII	1896	182
Reports of Sections, Session 1895-96		29 April 1896	XXVII	1896	188
Minutes of Session, 1895-96			XXVII		191
Report of Council for Session 1894-95			XXVII		193
Report of the Library Committeee			XXVII		195
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account, Session 1894-95			XXVII		196
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1894-95			XXVII		198
The Science Lectures Association Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1894-95			XXVII		199
Office-Bearers of the Society			XXVII		210
Committees Appointed by the Council			XXVII		211
Office-Bearers of Sections			XXVII		212
Additions to the Library			XXVII		214
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XXVII		218
List of Periodicals Received in the Reading Room			XXVII		225
List of Members for 1895-96			XXVII		227
Index			XXVII		239


VOLUME XXVIII

President’s Opening Address: The Scottish Races -Their Ethnology, Growth and Distribution	Dr Eben Duncan		XVIII	1896	1
Art in Our City	P Macgregor Chalmers		XVIII	1896	18
Admission of Lord Kelvin as as Honorary Member			XVIII	1896	39
The Pollution of Scottish Rivers	Dr John Glaister	6 January 1897	XVIII	1897	50
The Literary Art of Robert Burns	Dr James Colville	3 February 1897	XVIII	1897	96
Some Aspects of Political Economy	George Handasyde Dick		XVIII	1897	122
Educational Experiments	John G Kerr		XVIII	1897	143
The Andersonian: A Centenary Sketch	Professor A H Sexton	20 January 1897	XVIII	1897	161
House Sanitation	Dr Neil Carmichael	1 March 1897	XVIII	1897	172
Sugar Bounties	James R Greig	3 March 1897	XVIII	1897	185
Sound and Speech Waves as Revealed by the Phonograph (Science Lecture for 1896)	Dr John G M’Kendrick		XVIII	1896	201
The Vaccination Commissioners’ Report: A Plea for Vaccination	Dr John C M’Vail	20 January 1897	XVIII	1897	236
The Law of Mutual or, rather, Common Gables	George G Paton		XVIII	1897	246
A Demonstration on the X Rays: A Resume of Experiments Since his Former Demonstration Before the Society	Dr John Macintyre, FRSE	17 March 1897	XVIII	1897	267
Experiments with Rontgen Rays, Ultra-violet Light and Uranium	J Carruthers Beattie, DSc, FRSE and Smoluchowski de Smolan, PHD	14 April 1897	XVIII	1897	284
The Mechanical Propulsion of Tramway Cars	Professor W H Watkinson		XVIII	1896	292
Minutes of Session			XVIII		301
Report of Council for Session 1895-96			XVIII		303
Report of Library Committee			XVIII		305
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account, Session 1895-96			XVIII		308
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1895-96			XVIII		308
The Science Lectures Association Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1895-96			XVIII		309
Office-Bearers of the Society			XVIII		323
Committees Appointed by the Council			XVIII		324
Office-Bearers of Sections			XVIII		325
Additions to the Library			XVIII		327
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XVIII		332
List of Periodicals Received in the Reading Room			XVIII		339
List of Members for 1896-97			XVIII		341
Index			XVIII		353


VOLUME XXIX

The Report of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression	Professor William Smart, MA, DPhil, LL.D		XXIX	1897	1
Life and Thought of Anglo-Saxon England as Preserved in Contemporary Poetry	John Clark, MA		XXIX	1897	22
On Indian Economics	George Handasyde Dick	12 January 1898	XXIX	1898	45
A Contribution to the Chemistry of Coal, with Special Reference to the Coals of the Clyde Basin	W Carrick Anderson, MA, BSc		XXIX	1897	72
Railway Survey Work in the Shire Highlands of British Central Africa, with General Observations on the Country Between Chinde and Lake Nyasa	Grieve Macrone	26 January 1898	XXIX	1898	97
The Indian Mints	William Warrand Carlile, MA	2 March 1898	XXIX	1898	123
Lord Kelvin’s Patents	Dr Magnus Maclean		XXIX	1898	145
Degeneration and Regeneration of Nerves: An Historical Review	Robert Kennedy, MA, BSc, MD	9 March 1898	XXIX	1898	193
Faradimeter, for Measuring Alternating Currents for Therapeutic Use	Samuel Sloan, MD	9 February 1898	XXIX	1898	230
Note on a New Instrument (Oliver’s) for the Estimation of the Colouring Matter of Blood	David Fraser Harris	9 March 1898	XXIX	1898	238
The Present State of Deaf Mute Education	W H Addison	20 April 1898	XXIX	1898	241
On the Bubonic Plague	Dr Alex. R Ferguson	20 April 1898	XXIX	1898	254
Some Scientific Questions Concerning Pictures	Professor Archibald Barr	9 February 1898	XXIX	1898	262
Glasgow Cathedral: Notes From a Sketch of its History	P Macgregor Chalmers, IA, FSA		XXIX	1897	280
The Aerial Transmission of the Enteric Fever Poison, with a Record of an Outbreak Presumably Caused by this Means of Infection	John Brownlee, MA, MD, DPH	6 April 1898	XXIX	1898	298
Address Presented to Andrew Stewart by the Council of the Philosophical Society and by the Council of the Economic Science Section		10 June 1897	XXIX	1897	316
Minutes of Session 1897-98			XXIX		318
Report of Council for Session 1896-97			XXIX		318
Report of the Library Committee			XXIX		319
Abstract of Treasurer’s Account, 1896-97			XXIX		322
Graham Medal and Lecture Fund: Abstract of Treasurer’s Account for Session 1896-97			XXIX		324
Office-Bearers of the Society			XXIX		337
Committees Appointed by the Council			XXIX		338
Office-Bearers of Sections			XXIX		339
Additions to the Library			XXIX		341
List of Societies and Publications with which Exchanges are made			XXIX		348
List of Periodicals Received in the Reading Room			XXIX		355
List of Members, 1897-98			XXIX		358
Index			XXIX		370


VOLUME XXX

President’s Opening Address: Some Points on the Special Progess of Scotland in Recent Times	Ebenezer Duncan, MD, CM, FFPSG		XXX	1898	1
A Simple and Inexpensive Method of Localising With X-Rays	William James Fleming, MD		XXX	1898	12
Fires: Their Causes and Prevention	William Patterson		XXX	1898	16
Some Investigations into Palaeolithic Remains in Scotland	Rev. Frederick Smith		XXX	1898	30
The Scottish Vernacular as a Philological Study	James Colville, DSc		XXX	1898	39
Imperial Grants Considered as Adjustments of Taxation	Sheriff W C Smith		XXX	1899	59
On the Different Instabilities of Convex Bodies Spinning in Different Directions on a Plane, First Discovered in Celts	Magnus Maclean, MA, DSc, FRSE	8 March 1899	XXX	1899	75
Better Houses for the Poor – Will they Pay?	John Mann, Jun., MA, CA		XXX	1898	83
Insanity in Relations to Punishment for Crime	Professor Richard Brown	15 March 1899	XXX	1899	125
The Taxation of Land Values	John A Todd, BL	22 March 1899	XXX	1899	140
The Workmen’s Compensation Act (1897) as Bearing on the Building Trade	James A Love Tindal	13 March 1899	XXX	1899	156
The Prospect in Chinese Trade and the Present Opportunity	G F Scott Elliot, MA, BSc, FLS, FRGS	29 March 1899	XXX	1899	174
From the Baltic to the Caspian: A Voyage Across Russia	Samuel Mavor, FRGS	12 April 1899	XXX	1899	192
Commercial Education at Home and Abroad	James Knight, MA, BSc, FCS, FGS, FEIS	26 April 1899	XXX	1899	223
Reasons for Rejecting Physio-Chemical Theories of the Origin of Life	William Wallace, MB, CM, MA	15 March 1899	XXX	1899	256
Report of a Conjoint Visit of the Geological and Philosophical Societies to the Dumbuck Crannog, 8th April, 1899	John F Campbell	26 April 1899	XXX	1899	267
Electric Discharges in Vacuo and the Rontgen Rays	A A Campbell Swinton	1 March 1899	XXX	1899	272
The Evolution of the Blast Furnace	Professor A Humboldt Sexton, FCS, FIC	8 March 1899	XXX	1899	284
A Smallpox Hospital Experience of the Protective Influence of Vaccination	R S Thomson, MD, BSc	4 January 1899	XXX	1899	294
The Communication of Infection by Flies (Abstract)	W A M’Lachlan, MD	1 February 1899	XXX	1899	307
Report on the Position of the Trust Constituted for the Purpose of Establishing the Graham Lecture and Medal Fund	John Mann		XXX	1898	308
Memorial Notice of the late Professor Joseph Coats, MD	T K Monro, MD		XXX		311
Rules Governing the Competition for the Graham Medal			XXX		314
Minutes of Session, 1898-99			XXX		315
Office-Bearers of the Society			XXX		336
Office-Bearers of Sections			XXX		337
Committees Appointed by the Council			XXX		339
Additions to the Library			XXX		340
Exchanges with Other Societies			XXX		346
List of Periodicals			XXX		353
List of Members			XXX		356
Index			XXX		368

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