222 The laU Mr. John Hart. 



Glasgow, Zd November, 1851. — We have examined the Treasurer's Account, and com- 

 pared the same with the Vouchers, and fiad that there are in the Union Bank of Scotland 

 One Hundred and Twenty Pounds, and in the Savings Bank Eight Pounds Fifteen 

 ShiUings and Threepence — together, One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Pounds Fifteen 

 Shillings and Threepence at the Society's credit. The Treasurer has also exhibited to ns 

 a Voucher, which he holds for money lent to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, 

 from the proceeds of the Philosophical Society's Exhibition in 1846, with interest thereon 

 up to 15th May ult., being £551 Os. 9d. 



THOMAS DAWSON. » 

 WM. COCKEY. 



Report by Treasurer, oth November, 1851.— Tlie property possessed by the Society at 

 this date consists of the above-named balance of £128 15s. 3d. in Bank ; the Books in 

 Library, and Book Presses, as per Librarian's Catalogue. The Furniture, Picture, Bust, 

 &c., remain same as in Report of last year. 



The number of new ^Members admitted Session 1850-51, is 38. From this there fall to 

 be deducted 13 dropped from the Roll, viz., for arrear of dues, 4; placed on non-resident 

 list, having removed from Glasgow, dues being paid to date, and intimation to be placed 

 on this list being given, 2 ; resigned membership by letter, 4 ; dead, 2 ; for non-pajTuent 

 of entry-money and first year's dues, 1. The total number on the Roll at this date is 

 286 : of these 10 are in arrear of dues for one year. 



The late Mr. John Hart. 



Mr. Andrew Liddell, the Treasurer, in reporting on the deaths during 

 the past year, referred to that of Mr. John Hart, one of the original 

 members of the Society, and begged permission to make a short statement 

 respecting him. 



He asked this not only because of Mr. Hart having been for so many 

 years (nearly thirty) connected with this Institution, and for the greater 

 portion of these a very active member, but also and chiefly because, in 

 the history of the deceased, we have a brilliant specimen of the effects of 

 self-culture, in a comparatively unlettered youth acquiring a highly 

 cultivated mind, a thorough knowledge of many branches of science, 

 becoming a good worker in several branches of handicraft, and a pro- 

 moter of schools and institutions like our own, that taught to others the 

 same things. 



The deceased was a careful observer of all new inventions in mechanics, 

 and of all new discoveries or theories in philosophy. Many of these he 

 brought to the test of experiment in the laboratory and workshop which 

 adjoined his bakery in Mitchell-Street. By practice he acquired con. 

 siderable proficiency in wood and metal turning, as also in other branches 

 of mechanical art : he made working models of steam-engines, optical 

 instruments, including large sized telescopes, with various other machines 

 and instruments. The turning lathes in his workshop were moved by a 

 steam-engine of his own making. The parts of that engine, which 

 required to be bored or turned, were done by power from a water-wheel 

 which he had previously set down in the course of St. Enoch Burn, which 

 runs close by his premises. 



