CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



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Conversational Meeting, 1 



L— Notice of a Visit to the Island of Lewis. By James Smith, Esq., . 1 

 II.— Experiments with Manures on Potatoes and Turnips. By Lord 



Blantyre, 8 



HI.— Analysis of Two Species of Epiphytes, or Air Plants. By Mr. John 



Thomson, 9 



IV.— Account of a Dredging Excursion in the Frith of Clyde. By the 



Rev. David Landsborough, 12 



Report from the Botanical Section, 13 



V.— On the Acid of the Stomach, and on the Digestion of Vegetable 



Albumen, Fat and Starch. By R. D. Thomson, M.D., . . 14 



VI.— Analysis of Coradia Resin. By R. D. Thomson, M.D., ... 14 



Report from the Botanical Section, 15 



VII. — On the Coagulation of the Blood and other Fibriniferous Liquids, 



By A. Buchanan, M.D., 16 



VIII.— Botanical Excursion to the Mull of Cantyre or Kintyre and the 



Island of Islay, in August, 1844. By J. H. Balfour, M.D., . 22 



IX.— On the State of the Blood after taking Food. By A. Buchanan, M.D., 49 



Conversational Meeting, 65 



X. — On the Action of Bleaching Powder on the Salts of Copper and 



Lead. By W. Crum, Esq., 68 



XI. — On the Unemployed Lands of Great Britain. By G. Suther- 

 land, Esq., 73 



XII.— Nepaul Barley, 75 



Report from the Botanical Section, 76 



XIII.— Biographical Account of the late Dr. John Dalton. By T. Thom- 

 son, M.D., 79 



Abstract of Treasurer's Account, 88 



XIV.— On the Artificial Production of the Potato Disease. By W. 



Crum, Esq., 90 



XV.— Additional Observations on the Potato Disease. By W. Crum Esq., 92 

 XVI.— On the Mode of Testing Minute Quantities of Alcohol. By R. D. 



Thomson, M.D., 94 



XVII.— On the Analyses of some Minerals. By R. D. Thomson, M.D., . 97 



Reports from Botanical Section, 100 



XVIII.— On the Wound of the Ferret. By A. Buchanan, M.D., . . 104 



XIX.— Theory of the Reaction Water-Wheel. By W. M. Buchanan, Esq. 1 1 1 



XX.— On Caries, or Decay of the Teeth. By F. Hay Thomson, M.D., . 131 

 Table, Showing the State of Education in the City of Glasgow in 



1846, 134 



Abstract of Treasurer's Account, 136 



On the Chemistry of Food, 137 



XXI.— Tables of the Fall of Rain in Glasgow and Neighbourhood, . . 138 



