PROCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FORTY-THIRD SESSION. 



&h November, 1844. — Dr. Thomas Thomson, the President, in the 



Chair. 



Messrs. Dawson and Griffin were appointed to audit the Treasurer's 

 accounts for last year. Dr. Watt stated that the Statistical Section 

 had held a correspondence relative to an improvement in the Scottish 

 system of registration, but as yet without any satisfactory result. 

 The President laid on the table Mr. Graham Hutcheson's recent 

 work " On the Nature and Cause of the Diurnal Oscillations of the 

 Barometer," for which, on the motion of the President, the thanks of 

 the Society were given. It was agreed that a Conversational Meet- 

 ing should be held on the 13th instant. 



The Vice-President having taken the chair, the President read a 

 Biographical Notice of the late Professor Wallace of Edinburgh. 



13$ November, 1844. — Conversational Meeting. 



This Meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms, and was attended 

 by upwards of three hundred individuals. Various models and 

 articles of manufacture were exhibited in various parts of the room. 

 Models of the Atmospheric Railway and Air Gun made by Mr. James 

 Laing, attracted particular attention. The following account of Lewis 

 was then given : — 



t — Notice of a Visit to the Island of Lewis, by James Smith, Esq. 



Mr. Smith stated, that Lewis was the most northerly of the western 

 No. 11. 



