Proceedings of the Society of Art«, 167 



' April 27. — Edward Sang, Esq. Vice-Pres., in the Chair. The 

 following communications were laid before the Society : — 



(1.) Drawing and Description of a Machine for cutting MortiSeS 

 in Joinerwork, &c. By Mr J. Kirkwood junior, wright, Glasgow. 

 A specimen of the work was exhibited. 



(2.) Description and Drawing of a New Method of raising and 

 lowering a Slide-Rest, by means of Inclined Planes moved with 

 Screws. By Mr James Bell, philosophical instrument maker, 54 

 South Bridge Street, Edinburgh. Communicated by Mr Alexander 

 Bryson, M.S.A. — Tiie Tool was exhibited. 



(3.) Six Specimens of Lithographic Printing, from Transfer Draw- 

 ings, in competition for the 2d Prize for 1833-6. — As also, Three 

 Specimens of Lithography executed entirely with the Pen, but too 

 small for competition for the above Prize. By Messrs Maclure and 

 Macdonald, lithographers, 160 Trongate, Glasgow. 

 "■■ (4.) Twelve Specimens of Lithographic Printing, chiefly from 

 Transfer Drawings. By Mr Samuel Leith, lithographer, late of 

 BanflF, now of Leith and Smith, lithographers, Hanover Street, Edin- 

 burgh. 



(5.) On a Fire-Engine for Ships. By T. Borthwick, Esq. 1 

 Broughton Place, Edinburgh. 



(6.) On the Construction of a High Pressure Steam-wheel. By 

 the same. 



(7.) A new System of Short-hand Writing. By Mr J. Kerr, 

 teacher of stenography, and land-surveyor, 63 South Bridge, 



Edinburgh Specimens in illustration, and for comparison with 



other systems now in use, were exhibited, 



Mr John Sang, land-surveyor, Kirkcaldy, was admitted as an Ordinary 

 JMember. 



The President then took occasion to express his own regret, and 

 that of the Society generally, that no competitors had appeared for 

 the other and particularly the lithographic prizes offered last session. 

 He stated, that the Society have no wish to store up the funds 

 committed to their charge, but that it is their anxious desire to af- 

 ford every encouragement to competitors ; in proof of which he 

 alluded to the greater liberality of the offer for next session. The 

 adjudgment of the prizes he also stated to be free of every objec- 

 tion. They are awarded, in fact, by a committee appointed for 

 that especial purpose after all the communications on which they 

 are to decide have been submitted to the Society ; and the appoint- 

 ment of that committee is by the Society at large, and not merely 

 by the Council ; so that candidates may rely on an impartial consi- 

 deration of the merits of their inventions. 



The Committee proposed that, while thanks were doe to all 

 those gentlemen who had sent them communications, the special 

 thanks of the Society should be given to the following gentlemen 

 for their valuable communications, viz. — 



1. To Mr Professor Forbes, Edinburgh, F.R. SS.L. & E. Vice- 

 President Soc. Arts^for his communication on the application pf 



