Minutes of Meetings. 37 



Mr. D. Mackain read " Notes of a short Sojourn in Portugal." 



The President exhibited a portion of a plane tree, inclosing the lower 



end of the metacarpal bone, probably of the front leg of a large ox or 



other ruminant. 



The President also exhibited several recent improvements in the 



Microscope, executed bj^ M. Nachet of Paris. 



April 30, 1856. 



The members of the Society, together with a large, number of ladies 

 and gentlemen specially invited, met in the principal hall of the Cor- 

 poration Picture Gallery. Professor Rogers delivered an Address 

 descriptive of the physical geography, geology, and natural history of 

 the United States. 



May 14, 1856 (the concluding Meeting of the Session was held this 

 evening). — Me. Haute y, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William T. Wilson and Mr. Richard J. W. Macarthur were 

 admitted members. 



Mr. Walter Neilson read a paper " On Coal-mine Pumping Engines." 



Mr. Mackain exhibited and described Gorman's Patent Pressure 

 Water Meter. 



Mr. Bryce made a communication on a plan in use at Oxford and 

 Greenwich for the application of photography to meteorological obser- 

 vations, and invited support to a proposal for estabUshing similar 

 observations in Glasgow. Specimens of the photographic records were 

 exhibited, and a promise given to bring the subject more fully under 

 the notice of the Society at a future period. 



