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for a grant of money to the Clydesdale Naturalists' Association, to aid 

 them in their investigations into the Lanarkshire coal field. He moved 

 that the grant should be £15. 



The motion was seconded by Mr. William Ferguson, and supported by 

 Mr. Gourlie. 



The first vote was taken, and the motion unanimously agreed to. 



Mr. William Murray took occasion to state that a collection was now 

 forming of the various minerals of the district, from the upper part of the 

 coal field to the lowest strata, the specimens to be in cubes of six inches 

 each, for the Exhibition in London. The collection was being made 

 under his superintendence, and he had stipulated, at the suggestion of 

 Mr. Crum, that the specimens should be returned to Glasgow, and become 

 the property of the Philosophical Society. 



Mr. Bryce gave notice that at next meeting he would move that the 

 Society take some active step with regard to the necessity of expediting 

 the Ordnance Survey of Scotland. 



A paper was read on Apiine by Dr. Adolph v. Planta (Reichenau,) 

 and Mr. William Wallace, communicated by F. Penny, Ph. D , which 

 has been since printed in the Philosophical Magazine. 



January 8th, 1851. — The Vice-President in the Chair. 



Messrs. Thomas Sheriff, Thomas Bayne, Archibald Nairn, and John 

 M'Donald were admitted members. 



Mr. Bryce's motion for a grant of £15 to the Clydesdale Naturalists' 

 Association was voted on a second time, and finally agreed to. 



Mr. Bryce brought forward the motion of which he gave notice at last 

 meeting, " That the Society authorize and do hereby recommend the 

 council of the Society to co-operate, as speedily as possible, with the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, in urging upon the government the necessity 

 and importance of expediting the Ordnance Survey of Scotland." 



The motion was seconded by Dr. Walker Arnott. 



Mr. William Brown proposed, as an addition to the motion, that the 

 council should have a discretionary power to make a direct application to 

 government on behalf of the object in view, and also to co-operate with 

 any public body in the west of Scotland whom it might influence to take 

 up this matter. 



Mr. Bryce having consented to this addition being made to his motion, 

 it was unanimously agreed to. 



A letter from the Geological Society of London was read, acknowledg- 

 ing receipt of the last Number of the Society's printed proceedings. 



Dr. Robert D. Thomson read a notice of the travels of Dr. Thomas 

 Thomson, jun., in Sikkim Himalaya, and the Khasya hills. 



Dr. Thomson exhibited likewise Boutigny's experiment of plunging the 

 fingers into melted lead. 



