Troceedlnys of the lioi/al Scottish Hocicty of Arts. W\ 



o» difFurent keys, were exhibited. — Thanks voted, and referred to a Com- 

 mittee. (844.) 



4. Description of Ji Sailing Vessel on a new construction and Rig, capable 

 of performing a greater number of evolutions, and more rapidly, than vessels 

 on the common construction ; the Rig being safe, powerful, and handy. By 

 Mr Henry Dempster, Mariner, Kinghorn. A model of the vessel was ex- 

 hibited. — Thanks voted, and referred to a Committee. (845.) 



The following Donations have been received : — 



1. Specimen of Jacquard Loom-Weaving ; being a copy of an engraving 

 from Steuben's picture of the Emperor Peter the Great in a fisher's boat in 

 a storm ; woven in silk t^rith a warp of inferior quality, at the imperial manu- 

 factory of Alexandrosch, near St Petersburg. Presented by General Alex- 

 ander Wilson, Hon. M.R.S.S.A.— Thanks voted. (830.) 



2. Printed Description of the Monocleid Writing Cabinet, invented by 

 Mr Thos. Sopwith, C.E. Presented by Mr John Sopwith, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne.— Thanks voted. (823.) 



3. Printed Description and Diagrams of Taylor's patent Floating Break- 

 water, and Prospectus of the National Floating Breakwater and Refuge 

 Harbour Company. (1841.) Presented by James Saunders Robertson, Es-q. 

 W.S., F.R.S.S.A.— Thanks voted. (847.) 



rillVATE BUSINESS. 



I. The following" Candidates were balloted for and elected 

 as Ordinary Fellows, viz. : — 



1. Mr John Taylor, Cabinet and Picture-frame maker, 55 George Street. 



2. William Drysdale, Esq. Assistant Clerk of Session, 3 Hart Street. 

 II. Mr Samuel Leith, Lithographer, South St Andrew 



Street, Associate, having expressed his desire to become an 

 Ordinary Fellow in terms of Law V. was enrolled accordingly 



2ith January 1842.— William Galbraith, A.M., F.R.A.S.. 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. The following Communications 

 were made : — 



1. Part First. On the variable Specific Gravity of the Human Body, 

 and on some new principles considered in the mechanism of DroAvning. 

 By George Glover, Esq., F.RS.S.A., Lecturer on Natural Philosophy, 

 Edinburgh.— Thanks voted. (856.) 



Part Second to be given on a future occasion. 



2. Specimen of Scotch Ultra-Marine. By Mr Murdoch Paterson, dyer 

 Inverness. Referred to a Committee. (828.) 



3. An account of M. Triger's method of Sinking Pits in moveable or 

 Avatery sands on the Loire, by means of compressed air. Translated from 

 Report of the Meeting of the French Academy of Sciences of 2d November 

 1841, by J. Mitchell, Esq., Leith. Communicated by Wm. Galbraith, A.M., 

 V.P.R.S.S. A.— Thanks votei. (811.) 



