PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FORTY SIXTH SESSION. 



3d November, 1847. — The President in the Chair. 



The Librarian read a report on the Library, from which it appeared 

 that, since last Session, various periodical works have been completed by 

 the addition of C6 Nos. and 63 vols., in pursuance of a decision of 

 the Committee. Many of these were obtained with great difficulty, in 

 consequence of their scarcity, but by applying in the proper quarters, a 

 remarkable degree of success has attended the attempts made to render 

 the series of periodicals perfect. The Library can now boast of a perfect 

 copy of Agassiz' Work on Fishes. The American Journal of Science is 

 now complete, from the year 1831 to the present time. The Annales de 

 Chimie, by the purchase of 46 vols, at £12, and 2 Nos., is complete 

 from the year 1816. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, by 

 purchasing 9 or 10 Nos., is also rendered complete from the year 1819, 

 the date of its commencement. The Philosophical Magazine, by the pur- 

 chase of 4 vols, and 3 Nos., is now perfect from its commencement, in 

 the year 1798, to the present date. The Reports of the British Associa- 

 tion have also been completed by the addition of 6 vols. In consequence 

 of the Repertory of Patent Inventions being a work which is very much 

 consulted in this Library, it was considered proper to make every effort 

 to procure the absent Nos., and now the series, with the exception of 3 

 vols., is complete from the year 1794 — the absent vols, are 28, 29, 45 of 

 the second series. The first two published in the year 1816, and the 

 last in 1824. The report suggested that the Council of the Andersonian 

 University should be requested to enter on their minutes the titles of 

 the <I00 volumes purchased by the Philosophical Society, and that the 

 Philosophical Society should preserve a similar document, to prevent any 

 dispute in future, in consequence of these books being marked with the 

 Andersonian stamp. It was also suggested, that as the Repertory of 

 Patent Inventions is so valuable for rafaroMM^ and is consulted perhaps 



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