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The members afterwards adjourned to Dr Hope's laboratory, 

 when Mr Kemp, Dr Hope's Experimental Assistant, exhibited an 

 apparatus he had constructed for the repetition of the experiment 

 on the solidification of carbonic acid, which he had, at the request 

 of the Society, prepared for that purpose. 



Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of the Useful 

 Arts in Scotland. 



The Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts com- 

 njenced their sittings for the session 1835-6, in the Royal In- 

 stitution, on Wednesday 18th November 1835, at 8 o'clock p. Mii 

 Mr Professor Forbes, V. P. in the Chair. f. 



The following communications were laid before the Society :— 



1. Part first, of a paper on the Construction of Oblique Arches. 

 By Edward Sang, Esq. teacher of mathematics, «&c. Edinburgh, and 



Councillor Soc. Arts A model of the centering and drawings 



were exhibited. ' 



2. Specimen of Maps printed for the use of the Blind, being a 

 map of England and Wales, by the Reverend William Taylor, 

 York, Hon. Memb. Soc. Arts, was exhibited. '' 



3. Drawing and Description of certain Additions to the Turn- 

 ing-Lathe, which facilitate the turning of Snugs, &c. : and parti- 

 cularly useful in slow turning, when only a small portion of the face 

 of the body is to be turned. By Mr James Whitelaw, 18. Russell 

 Street, Glasgow. 



The following candidates were admitted as ordinary members,^ 

 viz. 



1. The Right Honourable Sir John Campbell, Attorney-General of Eng- 



land. 



2. Mr Robert Grant, jun. Bookseller 82. Prince's Street, Edinburgh. 

 Mr Thomas Morton, Carpet Machine-maker, Kilmarnock, was admitted 



an Honorary Member. 



December 2. 1835. — At this meeting (Colonel Macdonald of 

 Powderhall, in the Chair), the following office-bearers were elected 

 for the ensuing year : — 



President.— His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. 



Vice-Presidents Professor Forbes, F. R. SS. L. & E., F. G. S. ; Edward 



Sang, Esq. 

 Secretary.^James Tod, Esq. 21. Dublin Street. 

 Foreign Secretary. — Mr Alexander Adie, 58. Prince's Street. 



