250 Abstract of TreoMirer' s Account. 



sodium and aluminium, the methods of effecting which have been 

 patent to the manufactiu-ers for many years, if they had chosen to 

 make use of them. 



The manufacture of a candle has also been revolutionized by the 

 results of chemical investigations of an abstract character; and it is 

 remarkable, that because manufacturers chose to look upon them as 

 abstract, they were not applied to practical use for a considerable 

 time after they were made public ; and an interregnum of about twenty 

 years lies between Chevreul's discovery of the true constitution of the 

 fats and oils, and its practical application — a period which was thus 

 lost to that art. While it would have been easy to illustrate this 

 point at much greater length, he trusted that these observations would 

 not be considered misplaced when referring to the rise of a Society 

 whose sphere he trusted would be yet more enlarged. 



Mr. Edmund Hunt exhibited and explained the " Cinephantic 

 Colour Top," with which he reproduced some of Mr. Rose's effects, and 

 showed a number of new colom* experiments. Mr. Hunt was requested 

 by the Society to continue his experiments at next meeting. 



November 16, 1859. — TJte Peesident in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society, 

 viz.: — Dr. Mathie Hamilton, 22 Warwick Street; Mr. James Arm- 

 strong, 10 Salisbury Street ; Mr. Robert Garroway, Manufacturing 

 Chemist, Eosemount ; Mr. Thomas Rose, 11 Florence Place ; Mr. 

 James Cruikshank Roger, Merchant, 27 Union Street ; Mr. Peter C. 

 Orr, Calico Printer, 14 West Prince's Street ; Mr. Peter Hamilton, jun., 

 St. Rollox Bar-Iron Works, 126 North Montrose Street. *' 



Mr. Cockey, the Treasurer, gave in an abstract of his Account: — 



Dr. 

 1858.— Nov. 1. 



Cash in Union Bank, £98 12 10 



Less due the Treasurer, 9 8 



£98 3 2 



To Entry Fees from 25 New Members, at 21s., 26 5 



„ Annual Dues from 272 Members, at 15s., 204 



„ Do. from 5 Members in arrear one year, at 30s., 7 10 



„ Do. from 6 Old Members, at 5s., 1 10 



239 5 



„ ^oXq o{ Transactions., 12 2 



„ Interest on Bank Account 3 10 



£341 11 4 



