CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 



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President's Address, 1855, . 



Office-Bearers, g 



Abstract of Treasurer's Accounts, 



Memorial on the Ordnance Survey, • ^- • •f r-„„ t"t n ' in 



I.-Spontaneous Fracture of Cast Iron, by W. J. Macquorn Rankine,_LL.D., 10 



II —On Metallurgy among the Ancient Hebrews, by Mr. James Napier, . li 



III.— On the mode in which the Water of Loch Katrme may be obtamed ot 

 Uniform Temperature at all seasons, ,•„•,• ' „ ' , ■ ' 

 IV.— On the Stability of Factory Chimneys, by W. J. %cquom Rankine, 



LL.D., „•.•.", \r ; ■ 



v.— Notice of Discovery of a new Granite Tract in Arran, by Mr. James 



Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., 



18 

 VI —Report on"the*Low"Temperatm-es of the Spring Months of the year 1855, 



by Mr. James Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., ^^ 



President's Address, 1856 ^^ 



Abstract of Treasurer's Accounts, . _ • , , • ^ • • * • Ta 



VII.— Metallic Iron in Trap Rock from Lochwinnoch, by Dr. Thos. Anderson, 44 



Office-Bearers, , ^ ;, , • •„•,,* 



VIII —On the Discoveiy of Native Copper m the Trap Rocks near Barrhead, 



by Mr. James Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., 47 



IX.— On Coal-bearing Strata in the Island of Bute, by Mr. James Bryce, 



M.A., F.G.S., . . . • •■ • „ • . • • ^^ 



X.— On the Geological Relations of certain Copper Vems recently discovered 



in Bute, by Mr. James Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., ..... 51 



XL— An Adaptation of the Philosophy of Newton, Leibnitz, and Boscovitch 



to the Atomic Theory, by John G. Macvicar, D.D, Mofl'at, . . 62 



XII.— On Bessemer's Process for Manufacturing Iron, by Mr. Wm. Cockey, . 81 



XIII.— On the Education of the Working Classes, and the Best Means of Pro- 

 moting it, by Mr. George Anderson, . . . . . _ . 82 

 XIV. — On the Phenomena and Causes of the Adaptation of the Eye to Distinct 



Vision at Different Distances, by Dr. Allen Thomson, ... 93 



XV.— On some Copper and other Metallic Ores from Tarbet, on Loch Long, 



by Mr. James Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., 96 



XVI.— On some Marine Fossils lately found in a quarry within the city of 



Glasgow, by Mr. James Bryce, M.A., F.G.S., 97 



XVII— Notice of some Iron Ores from Nova Scotia, by Mr. James Bryce, 



M.A., F.G.S., 97 



XVIII.— On a new system of Sewage, by Mr. Walter M'Farlane, ... 99 



XIX.— Early Histoiy and Proceedings of the Society, by Mr. W. Keddie, . 101 



Abstract of Treasurer's Accounts, 114 



XX.— Early History and Proceedings of the Society, by Mr. W, Keddie, . 117 



Office-Bearers, 129 



XXL— On certain Plicnomena connected with Rotatory Motion, the Gyroscope, 

 Precession of the Equinoxes, and Satuni's Rings, by Mr. Edmund 



Hunt. With Diagrams, 130 



XXII.— On the Recent Progress and Present State of the Sciences of Meteorology 



and Ten-estrial Magnetism. Part I. BjrMr.JamesBryco,M.A.,F.G.S., 158 

 XXIII.— The different Conductivity of samples of Copper Wire, by Professor W. 



Thomson, 185 



XXIV. — On the Recent Progress of our Knowledge of the Chemical Elements, 



by Dr. Thomas Anderson 187 



XXV. — On Incrustations in Steam Boilers, by Mr. James Napier, ... 191 

 XXVI.— On a Method of Voting at Limited Liability Companies more Uniform 

 than the present, and its Expression by a Mathematical Formula, by 

 Mr. James R. Napier, 199 



