364 The Philosophical Society of Glasgow. 



Mr. Murray joined the Philosophical Society in 1837. In 1844 he 

 was elected a member of Council, which office he held, with the excep- 

 tion of one year, till the time of his death. He took an active part in 

 promoting the Society's Exhibition in the City Hall in 1846. In 

 Vol. I., page 113, of the Society's printed Proceedings, appears an 

 account of the Section of the Lanaa-kshire Coal Field, prepared under 

 the direction of Mr. Mui-ray for the Glasgow Meeting of the British 

 Association in 1841. 



Mr. Murray was elected the President of Anderson's University in 

 September, 1844. In a year or two after his election a sum of £893 

 was raised by subscription, enabling the managers to pay off an arrear 

 of interest on the debt which had been accumulating at the Bank of 

 Scotland, and to make the first considerable additions to the practical 

 class-rooms of chemistry and anatomy. He held this office at the 

 period of his death. 



November 17. — Peofessob Wiliiam Thomson in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society, viz. : — 

 Mr. John Dennison, C.E. ; Mr. J. Hall Smith ; Laurence Hill, LL.B. ; 

 Dr. A. K. Irvine ; Mr. William Wakefield ; Mr. James Buchanan ; Mr. 

 Wilhelm Schierbeck. 



Mr. Cockey, Treasurer, gave in an abstract of the accounts, showing 

 a balance in favour of the Society, after meeting the expenditure, of 

 £98 3s. 2d. The Exhibition Fund of 1846, with interest, amounts at 

 this date to £739 3s. 3d. 



The Society proceeded to the Fifty-seventh Annual Election of 

 Office-bearers. 



The following were elected : — 



Presftcnt. 

 De. Thomas Andeeson. 



"Hic£-Pt£sil(£nt0. 

 De. W. J. Macqxjoen Eakkine. ] Me. Eobeet Haet. 



%ihtmwn. 

 Dr. Bryce. 



9Ereagorer. 

 Me. William Cooket. 



Ssttttisxm. 

 Me. Alexandee Hastie. I Me. William Keddh:. 



