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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FORTY-FOURTH SESSION. 



bth November, 1845. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Griffin gave in a Report with reference to a settlement of the 

 affairs of the Library between the Andersonian Institution and the Philo- 

 sophical Society. 



The Minute of Council of date 2d April, 1845, recommending that the 

 Society should take steps for obtaining a Portrait of Dr. Thomas Thomson, 

 the President, was read ; and also the Minute agreeing to the proposal, 

 and appointing a Committee to carry it into effect. Mr. William Murray, 

 Convener of the Committee, in presenting the Portrait to the Society, in 

 name of the Subscribers, stated, that the Committee had employed Mr. 

 John Graham Gilbert to execute the Portrait now in the room, which 

 would be recognised as an excellent and characteristic likeness of their 

 President. The chair having been taken by the Vice-President, the Pre- 

 sident read the following paper: — 



Xm. — Biographical Account of the late John Dalton, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c 

 By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S. 



John Dalton was born on the 5th day of September, in the year 1767, in 

 the village of Englesfield, about two miles west of Cockermouth, Cum- 

 berland. He attended the village school there, and in the neighbourhood, 

 till he was eleven years of age, at which period he had gone through a 

 course of mensuration, surveying, navigation, &c. When twelve years of 

 age he began to teach the villago school, and continued to do so for two 

 years. After this, for a year or more, he was occasionally employed in 

 husbandry. 



At fifteen years of age he removed to Kendal, as assistant in a Board- 

 ing School. In that capacity he remained for three or four years. He 



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