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Tables of the Fall of Rain in Glasgow, ^y. 



\Uh Febniarij, 1849. — Mr. Crum in the Cliair. 



Mr. James Paterson, Assay Master, was elected a Member. 



A copy of Report on Davies's Rotary Engine was presented to the 

 library by Mr. William Johnson. 



Professor William Thomson gave "An Account of Mr. Faraday's 

 recent Discoveries relative to the Magnetic Condition of all Matter." 



3Ir. John Rryce exhibited and explained a working model of a Hydros- 

 tatic Pressure Regulator. 



2Wi Fchruanj, 1849. — Tlie President in the Chair. 



On the motion of Mr. Crum, seconded by Dr. A. K. Young, the 

 Society agreed to record its regret at the loss it has sustained by the 

 death of George Watson, Esq. Surgeon, one of the original members, and 

 a member of the Council. 



Professor Gordon continued his remarks on the proposal to substitute 

 Locomotive Carriages for Locomotive Engines and Passengers' Trains on 

 Railways. 



Mr. Andrew Shanks exhibited a Model of Dunn's Patent Improved 

 Mode of Removing Railway Carriages from one Line to another. 



14th March, 1849. — The President iii the Chair. 



Dr. R, D. Thomson made a statement of the Comparative Fall of Rain 

 at Glasgow and various parts of Scotland and England, and communi- 

 cated the following tables : — 



TABLE I. 



January 



February, 



March 



April, 



May, 



June, 



July. 



August, 



September, 



October, 



November, 



December, 



Mean Annual Rain, 



1848. 



3-2 

 11-8 

 4-4 

 1-35 

 2-2 

 3-8 

 5-3 

 3-8 

 2-2 

 4-7 

 6-9 

 6-3 



55-95 



The Register at Botanic Garden kept by S. Murray, Esq.; at Ibroxholm by T. R. 

 Gardiner, Esq.; and at Greenock, on the Gourock Road, by W. Davidson, Esq. M.D. 



Mean at Greenwich for seven years, 25-8 inches, (1841 — 47, inclusive.) 



