330 Minutes of Meetings, 



February 8, 1854. — The Pbesident in the Chair. 



Mr. Akthont Inglis, Whitehall Foundry, Anderston, and Mr. Alex- 

 ander Mackenzie, Upholsterer, Buchanan Street, were elected members, 



A vote of £40 for a new Book-case, Seat-eushions, and Gas-fittings, 

 was unanimously agreed to for the second time. 



Mr. Andrew Liddell moved that the Council be authorized to invite 

 the British Association to visit Glasgow in 1855, and stated that if this 

 was done he had reason to believe that the invitation would be cordially 

 accepted. 



This motion was seconded by Mr. William Murray, and unanimously 

 agreed to. 



Mr. Bryce gave an account of the recent Geographical dbcoveries in 

 Africa, after which Mr. Alexander Ferguson was requested to prepare 

 and lay before the Society an account of his visit to Eg}^t and the Nile. 



A letter to the Secretary, from Mr. W. J. Macquom Rankine, was 

 read, calling attention to the circumstance of the Town Council having 

 acquiesced in the limitation of the Ordnance Survey to a scale of five feet 

 to one mile, instead of a scale of ten feet, in favour of which the Society 

 formerly memorialized the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury. 



Bailie Harvey and Dr. Aitkea explained, on the part of the Town 

 Council, that the Council would be glad to have the Maps laid down on 

 a ten feet scale, but that Government insisted that the City should pay 

 the difference of expense (estimated at about £2000) betwixt the five and 

 the ten feet scale, which tbe Council unanimously refused to do. 



After a discussion, in which Mr. Bartholomew, Mr. Liddell, Dr. Watson, 

 and others took part, Mr. Liddell moved that the Society should again 

 memorialize the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury to the same efiect as 

 before, which was seconded by Bailie Harvey, and agreed to. 



Mr. Murray moved that the Society should memorialize the Town 

 Council also to reconsider the matter, and endeavour to make some 

 arrangement to secure a ten feet scale ; seconded by Mr. Liddell and 

 agreed to. 



A Committee, consisting of Professor W. Thomson, Mr. Liddell, Mr. 

 Bartholomew, Mr. M'Kain, Mr. Bryce, and Mr. Rankine, were appointed 

 to carry these resolutions into effect. 



February 22, 1854. — William Gouelie, Esq., Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



Mn. Bartholomew was appointed Convener of the Committee on the 

 Ordnance Survey, appointed at last meeting. 



