PROCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FIFTY-SECOND SESSION. 



November 2, 1853. 



The Fifty-Second Session of tbe Philosophical Society of Glasgow was 

 opened this evening, — Walter Crum, Esq., President of the Society, in 

 the Chair. 



A framed artist's proof of the portrait of the late Dr. Thomas Thomson 

 was presented by Messrs. James M'CIure and Son, for which the Society 

 voted thanks. 



The President read papers on the following subjects : viz., — " On the 

 Acetates and other Compounds of Alumina." {Recapitulation.') "Pro- 

 fessor Graham's Discoveries on the Diffusion of Gases and of Liquids." 



November 16, 1853. — 77ie President in the Chair. 



Mr. Hexrt How, College Laboratory, and Mr. Daniel Fraser, Phar- 

 maceutical Chemist, 113 Buchanan Street, were elected members. 



Mr. Liddell, the Treasurer, gave in the following abstract of his 

 Account for Session 1852-53 : — 



1852. Dr. 



Nov. 1.— To Cash in Union and Savings Banks, £123 10 

 1853. 



— Interest on Banks' Accounts, 5 1 



£128 11 



Nov. 1. — Society's Transactions sold, 1 2 G 



Carry forward, £129 3 5 

 Vou III.— No. G. u 



