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are carried in bundles into the building on the opposite side of the mid- 

 wall already mentioned, and deposited upon the sparred floors which 

 are placed there at heights corresponding with the stages in the first 

 apartment, on which the goods are folded down. Upon these floors 

 five or six thousand pieces, of twenty-five yards long, can be stored at a 

 time. It is necessary, of course, that an elevated temperature, and a 

 corresponding degree of moisture, be preserved in the storing apart- 

 ments day and night, and 80° Fahr. is sufficient, with the wet bulb 

 at 76°. To effect that object a large iron pipe is placed along the 

 ground-floor underneath, and moderately heated by steam, while a row 

 of small jets, in the same position, are made to project steam directly 

 into the air of the apartment. The whole building is defended from 

 external cold, and consequently from condensation of steam, by a warmed 

 entrance-room, and by double windows and double roof. Small steam- 

 pipes are also placed at other points where they seem to be required ; 

 and the apartment with rollers is specially heated, when not in use, by 

 a couple of steam-pipes, which are placed under the ceiling of the 

 ground-floor. 



The process of ageing, as thus detailed, was in operation at Thorn- 

 liebank in the autumn of 1856. About a year afterwards it began to 

 be adopted by other printers, and now (in September, 1859) it is ah-eady 

 in use at at least sixteen different printing establishments in Scotland 

 and in Lancashire. 



ABSTKACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF SESSION 1858-59. 



The Session commenced on the 3d of November. On taking the chair 

 Professor William Thomson announced the death of Mr. William 

 Murray of Monkland, and moved that, as a mark of respect to his 

 memory, the Society do now adjourn till the next ordinary meeting, 

 and that the Secretaries be instructed to prepare a memorial of Mr. 

 Murray, to be engrossed in the minute-book. The motion was seconded 

 by Mr. Walter Crum, and agreed to. 



The late William Muebat, Esq. of Monkland. 

 Mr. William Murray was bom in Glasgow in September, 1790. He 

 was therefore in his sixty-ninth year when he died on the 2d of 

 November, 1858. His father, Mr. Francis Murray, who was the son 

 of WiUiam Murray of Belridden, in Dumfriesshire, came to this city 

 early in life. That gentleman was at first engaged in a West India 

 business, and afterwards, about the middle of the century, commenced 

 the Monkland Steel Works, in conjunction with the late Mr. John 



