230 Proceedings of the Philosophical Societi/ of Glasgow. 



" Unto the Honourable tbe Lord Provost, Magistrates, and 

 Council of the City of Glasgow. The Memorial of the 

 President, Vice-Presidents, and Members of the Glasgow 

 Philosophical Society, 

 " Sheweth, 



"That, in the year 1838, the then Magistrates and Council, at the 

 suggestion of the Philosophical Society, were pleased to forward an 

 invitation to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to 

 hold its annual raeetmg in 183f> in Glasgow, or if not in that year, at 

 as early a period thereafter as possible. And that at the suggestion of 

 tlie Magistrates and Council, the Principal and Professors of the Univer- 

 sity, and the other public bodies in the city, were severally pleased to 

 send invitations to the same effect. 



" The simultaneous request from the public bodies in Glasgow, thus so 

 cordially made, was responded to by the Association, and its meeting in 

 1840 was held in our city. It may be recollected that at that meeting 

 were congregated not only the members of the Association, natives of 

 Britain, but also nearly one hundred foreigners, including many names 

 of the highest respect in Europe and America, a greater number than 

 have been present at any other meeting of the Association. 



" Considering the many advantages that accrued to Glasgow from the 

 past, and that similar may be expected to flow from another, visit of that 

 distinguished body, 



" Youi' memorialists are of opinion that the time has arrived when the 

 Bi-itish Association should receive a cordial invitation to hold its meeting 

 in Glasgow in 1853, or in an early year thereafter. 



" They therefore respectfully solicit the Lord Provost, Magistrates, 

 and Council to present an invitation to that effect to the Association at 

 its next meeting — which is to be in Belfast in the course of next 

 summer — and to take such steps as may seem most expedient, in order 

 that the Piiucipal and Professors of the University, and the heads of the 

 public bodies, may be induced to co-operate, and forward at the same 

 time similar invitations. 



" The Lord Provost and Magistrates may depend on the cordial con- 

 currence of the Philosophical Sosiety in this very important measure. 



" Signed by the office-bearers in name and by appointment 

 of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, this twenty-sixth 

 day of February, Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-two." 



The motion was seconded by Sir James Anderson, who stated that it 

 would afford him pleasure to support the memorial in the Town Council. 



Mr. Murray mentioued that the Lord Provost had requested him to 

 say that he regretted being unable to be present in the Society to-night 

 to support this motion, to which he had no doubt his coadjutors in the 

 Magistracy and Town Council would agree. 



The Memorial was then approved of. 



