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Mr. Henderson was proposed as a member. 



Mr. Liddell moved the following resolutions: 



^ " -P«V5<— A memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying that they 

 give peremptory instructions to the Commissioners of Patents to transmit 

 transcripts of Specifications for Patent Inventions to the Ciiancery Oflfice, 

 Edinburgh, in conformity with Act of Parliament, 1852. That the Lords 

 of the Treasury would not sanction an Act proposed to be brought into 

 Parliament by said Commissioners, for repealing so much of the Act of 

 1852 as provides for a copy of each Specification being sent to Edinburgh; 

 but rather that duplicate copies be sent to Glasgow and other large cities 

 and towns of the empire ; and further, that the surplus fund arising from 

 the charges for Patents be applied to that purpose. 



" Second— An Address to Prince Albert, approving of the suggestions 

 and propositions which His Royal Highness has made of additional 

 Libraries and xlluseum for the reception of Transcripts of all Patent 

 Inventions of this and other countries, from the earliest times till the 

 present day, to be arranged under heads, with indices. 



" Third— A Memorial to the Commissioners of Patents, praying the 

 Honourable Board to aid Prince Albert in the highly national work sug- 

 gested by him, as the surplus funds arising from charges for Patents can- 

 not be more beneficially or legitimately applied than in doing this, and in 

 transmitting to the large cities and towns duplicates of the proposed 

 Library and Museum." 



The resolutions were seconded by Mr. William Murray, supported by 

 Mr. Rankine, Mr. Jaffrey, Mr. John Joseph Griffin, and Dr. Francis 

 Thomson, and unanimously approved of. 



The President announced that in compliance with the request of the 

 Council, Dr. Anderson, Professor of Chemistry in the University of 

 Glasgow, had consented to become editor of the printed Proceedings of 

 the Society. ^ 



_ Mr. Hart exhibited a piece of limestone from Upper Canada, with an 

 iron spear-head imbedded in it. The specimen was obtained from a lime 

 quarry in the river Thames, forty miles above London, and consisted of a 

 mass of fossil shells. 



A letter from Mr. Hastie was read, acknowledging receipt of the 

 Society's Memorial to the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, in favour of 

 laying down the Ordnance Survey of the city of Glasgow, on the scale of 

 ten feet to one mile, and stating that he will transmit it to the proper 

 authorities with his cordial recommendation. 



Dr. Penny gave an account of the method of preserving meats for long 

 voyages, as practised in Messrs. Ritchie and M'Call's establishment 

 London, showing the scientific principles involved in the process, and 

 Illustrating the description of numerous specimens obtained from Messrs. 

 Ritchie and M'Call. 



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