PKOCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FORTY-EIGHTH SESSION. 



1th November, 1849. — The President in the Chair. 



The Forty-eighth Session of the Society was opened this evening, when 

 Dr. Thomson, the President, read a paper on Distillation, 



2\st November^ 1849. — The President in the Chair. 



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

 Thomson, Mr. James Gumming, Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Messrs. George 

 Lyon, John Parker, James Napier, Robert Rankin, Andrew Renfrew, 

 Charles Thomas, John Condie, Dr. Ebenezer Watson, Mr. William P. 

 Smith. 



Mr. Liddell, the Treasurer, gave in the following Abstract of his 

 Accounts for Session 1848-49, together with Inventory of the Society's 

 Property : — 



1848. Dr. 



Nov. 11. — To Cash in Union and Provident 



Banks at beginning of Session, £32 19 11 



1849. 



Nov. 11. — Interest on do., 1 19 8 



£34 19 7 



— 30 Entries of New Members, 



at 21s., 31 10 



— 14 Annual Payments from Ori- 



ginal Members, at 5s., 3 10 



— 215 Annual Payments, at 15s., 161 5 



— Arrears from one Member, 15 



197 



— Balance duo Treasurer, 1 17 10 



£233 17 5 

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