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On a Specimen of Artificial Asbestus. By F. Penny, Ph.D., Professor of Chem- 



btry in the Andersonian University, 104 



Notice of New Zealand Minerals, 105 



Notice of the Fossil Plants in the Glasgow Geological Museum. By William 



Gourlie, Jun., Ksq., 105 



Section of I^narkshire Coal Field. Bv William Murray, Esq., . . . . 113 

 On the Vital Statistics of five large Towns of Scotland. By Alexander Watt, 



City Statist, Glasgow, 114 



Examination of the Cowdie l*ine Resin. By Robert D. Thomson, M.D., . . 123 

 On the Fibrin contained in the Animal Fluids, the Mode in which it coagulates, 

 and the Transformations which it undergoes. By Andrew Buchanan, M.D., 

 Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, University of Glasgow, . . . 131 

 New Mode of employing Creasote for the Preservation of Butchers'-Meat and 



Fish. By John Stenhouse, Ph.D., 145 



On the Existence of an Immense Deposit of Chalk in the Northern Provinces of 



Brazil. By George Gardner, Esq., F.L.S,, 146 



Report on the State of Disease in Scotland, 153 



Remarks on the Comet of March, 1843. By William Gourlie, Jun., Esq., . . 156 

 On a New Kind of Charcoal Support for Blowpipe Experiments. By John 



Joseph Griffin, 158 



On the Nutritive Power of Bread and Flour of Different Countries. By Robert 



D. Thomson, M.D., 163 



On Coal Gas. By Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., L. & E., M.R.I.A., Regius 



Professor of Chemistry, 165 



List of Office-Bearers for 1843-44, 176 



Hints for the Formation of a Friendly Society for the Professional and Mercan- 

 tile Classes. By William Spens, Esq., 177 



On Parietin, a Yellow Colouring Matter, and on the Inorganic Food of Lichens. 



By Robert D. Thomson, M.D., 182 



Report of Botanical Section, 192 



On the Laws of Mortality at Different Ages. By Alexander Watt, LL.D., City 



Statist, 193 



Table of the Specific Gravities of some Crystallized Salts. By Mr. John Adam, 199 

 Note on the state in which Fibrin exists in the Blood. By Andrew Anderson, 



M.D., Andersonian Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, .... 200 



Antarctic Minerals, 207 



Note on the Measure of Impact, by Pressure or Weight. By Professor L. Gordon, 208 

 Short account of a Botanical Excursion to Galloway and Dumfriesshire, in 



August, IWS. By J. H. Balfour, M.D., Regius Professor of Botany, . . 209 

 On the Minimum Rate of Annual Premiums for Insurance of Select Lives from 

 Twenty to Sixty, and on the value of Annual Additions to Insurances at 



those Ages. By William Spens, Esq,, 217 



On the White or Opaque Serum of the Blood. By Andrew Buchanan, M.D,, 



Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, . 226 



On the Impurity of some Drugs. By Mr. David Murdoch, .... 236 



On Printing for the Blind. By John Alston, Esq., 239 



On the supposed Influence of the Moon upon the Weather. By Walter Crum, 



F.R.S,, Vice President, 243 



On a Theoretical Rule for the Compression of Water. By Daniel Mackain, 



M. Inst. C.E., 249 



Report of Statistical Section, , 256 



Test of Formula for Discharge of Water through Pipes. By L. D. B. Gordon, 



Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, .... 258 



Interim Report by the Subscriber, Peter M'Quisten, Civil Engineer in Glasgow, 

 relative to agreement between the Proprietors of Househill, and Messrs. 



John Wilson & Sons, 261 



Description of a Steam Boiler. By Mr. James Johnston, 262 



Notice of Excursions made from Glasgow with Botanical Pupils during the Sum- 

 mer of 1843. By J. 11. Balfour, M.D., F.R.S.E., Regius Professor of Botany, 263 



Books added to the Society's Library since 1842, 269 



List of the Members of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, .... 271 

 Index, 273 



