4-1 Minutes of Meetings. 



From this there fall to he deducted from present Roll — 



Hesigned, 9 



In arrear two years, 12 



Left Glasgow 4 



Dead, 5 



30 



On the List for 1856-57, 275 



Of the above 275, there are 8 members in an-ear of one year's dues. 



Mr. Cockey also made a Report on the progress of the Library, which 

 now contains 2,559 volumes. 



Tlie Society then proceeded to the tifty -fifth annual election of office- 

 bearers. 



Mr. John A. Mathieson and Mr. Robert Hill were requested to act as 

 scrutineers of votes. 



Dr. Allen Thomson proposed that Professor William Thomson be 

 elected President ; that Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine be re-elected 

 Vice-President ; that Mr. James Bryce, jun., be elected second Yice- 

 Prcsident ; that Dr. Thomas Anderson be elected Librarian ; that Mr. 

 WilUam Cockey be re-elected Treasurer ; and that Mi*. Alexander 

 Hastie and Mr. William Keddie be re-elected Secretaries. 



"Wliieh motion having been seconded by Mr. William Murray, was 

 carried by acclamation. 



The votes of the Society were then given in, in writing, for 

 twelve members of Council, and the scrutineers retired to number the 

 votes. 



Dr. Thomas Anderson, Professor of Chemistry in the University of 

 Glasgow, exhibited a specimen of trap rock from Lochwinnoch, containing 

 particles of pure iron, such as has hitherto been only observed in meteoric 

 stones, along with portions of nickel. Professor Andrews of Belfast had 

 observed that iron occurred in extremely minute particles in trap rocks 

 in the north of Ireland ; but in the specimen pi-oduced, the particles 

 were comparatively large. From a portion of the powdered mineral. 

 Professor Anderson detached the particles of ii-on by applying the 

 magnet. He stated that six per cent, of iron had been extracted from 

 the rock by means of dilute acid. 



Professor William Thomson made some remarks on the curious fact 

 of iron occurring in a rock which had not been exposed to aqueous 

 action, as had been the case with all metalliferous rocks. 



'Mr. W. ^Murray and Mr. Bryce also offered a few observations, the 



