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HIS TORT of the SOCIETr. 



nations of the barometer do adually exlft ; thaj: more infor- 

 mation on tlie fubjedl is neceflary before any explanation of 

 them can be attempted ; and that it is in the countries lying 

 near to the equator that we are to look for thefe periodical 

 variations leafl interrupted and obfcured by accidental irregula- 

 rities. 



1796. 



Feb. I. 

 Mr Playfair on 

 the weatlier of 

 »795- 



Feb. 15. 

 Biogiaplucal 

 account of Lord 

 Abercromby. 



' Pb\f. CI. Mr Playfair read an Account of the Weather 

 for 1 795, extradled from his Journal kept for the Society. 



Lit, CI. Mr Mackenzie read his Biographical Account of 

 Lord Abercromby. [See Hiftory of the Society, Appendix, 



p- (Ol- 



^larch 7. 



^Ir Wallace on 

 gcoinetncal po- 

 rifois. 



Phyf. CI. A paper was communicated, containing Certain 

 Geometrical Porifms, with their Application to the Solution of 

 Problems, by Mr William Wallace, Afliftant-teacher of the 

 Mathematics in the Academy of Perth. [See this volume. Part II. 

 No. V. p. 107.] 



March 21. 



biographical 

 account of Dr 

 Robertfon. 



April 4. 



Biographical 

 account of Dr 

 Roebuck. 



Lit. CI. Mr Stewart read the firft part of his Biographical 

 Account of the late Dr Robertson. 



Phyf. CI. A Biographical Account of the late Dr Roebuck 

 was read, communicated by Mr Profeflbr Jardine of the Uni- 

 verfity of Glafgow. [See Hift. Appen. No. IV. p. (65)]. 



May 2. 



£xtrai5l of % 

 letter from 

 W. Hall, Efq; 



Phyf. CI. An Extradl of a Letter from Mr Hall to Sir James 

 Hall, Bart, was i-ead, giving an Account of an Extraordinary 

 Halo of the Moon, obferved on the i8th of February laft. [See 

 this Volume, Part IL No. VII. p. 173.] 



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Phyf 



