PROCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FIFTY-FIRST SESSION. 



November 3, 1852. 



The Fifty-first Session of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow was 

 opened this evening. Mr. Walter Crum, the Senior Vice-President, in 

 the chair. 



The following minutes of Council were read, of date October 26 : 



" On the motion of Mr. Liddell, it was resolved unanimously, that 

 before proceeding to business, the Council should record in the minutes 

 an expression of their sorrow for the death of their late distinguished and 

 venerable President, Dr. Thomas Thomson; and of the estimation in 

 which he was held by them for his eminent scientific attainments and 

 discoveries ; for his untiring attention to the business of the Society, the 

 meetings of which he regularly attended, till a comparatively recent 

 period, during the eighteen years in which he occupied the chair ; and 

 also for his other valuable qualities. The Council at the same time 

 resolved to express their deep sympathy with the family of Dr. Thomson 

 in their bereavement. Further, that Mr. Crum, the Senior Vice-President 

 be requested to prepare for the first meeting of the ensuing Session of 

 the Society a sketch of the life and labours of Dr. Thomson, 



" It was also agreed, on the motion of Mr. Liddell, to record the 

 thanks of the Council to Dr. Robert Thomson, on his leaving this city 

 to settle in London, for his valuable services as Librarian to the Society, 

 in which capacity he has introduced various important improvements, more 

 especially by his painstaking efforts to complete several sets of previously 

 imperfect periodicals, and to obtain copies of rai-e and valuable works ; 

 and also for bis editorial superintendence of the Society's printed " Pro- 

 ceedings." In acknowledgment of these and other services to the Society, 

 rendered by Dr. Robert D. Thomson, the Council resolve to recommend 

 to the Society that lie bo elected an Honorary Member. 



"The Council unanimously and cordially agreed to recommend to the 

 Society that Mr. Cnim be elected President; and that Dr. Allen Thom- 

 son be elected to the vacant chair of Vice-President. 



" It was also resolved to propose to the Society that the law of last 



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