Memorial on Ordnance Survey. 331 



Mr. William Murray having taken the Chair, 



Mr. Gourlie read an account of a short visit to Switzerland, &c., in 

 last September, illustrated by Drawings and specimens of Plants. 



March 8, 1854. — The President in the Chair. 



Mb. Eobebt Gardiner was elected a member. 



The Committee on the Ordnance Survey gave in the following draft of 

 Memorial to the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, and, mutatis mutandis, 

 to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Glasgow, in 

 favour of the Ordnance Survey of the city being laid down to a scale of 

 ten feet to one mile: — 



" To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's 

 Treasury, 



" The Humble Memorial of The Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 

 Sheweth — 



" That your Memorialists feel a deep interest in the 

 completion and publication of the Ordnance Survey of the City of Glas- 

 gow^, as being essential to the easy, efficient, and economical planning and 

 execution of improvements in the said city, whether public or private. 



" That your Memorialists are satisfied that it has been proved by expe- 

 rience, that in cities such as Glasgow, where the ground is intricately and 

 minutely subdivided, and of great value, and where the buildings and 

 underground works are of a very complicated character, no scale is suf- 

 ficient for such purposes which is much less than ten feet to one mile. 



" That your Memorialists beg leave to express their satisfaction at the 

 intention which they have been given to understand is at present enter- 

 tained by your Lordships, of causing the Survey of the City of Glasgow 

 to be laid down to a scale of ten feet to one mile, or one nearly approxi- 

 mating to that ratio, and their conviction, that any immediate saving 

 which might accrue from a departure from that intention, would be 

 immensely exceeded by the ultimate loss which would arise from the 

 additional expense and inconvenience in planning and executing im- 

 provements." 



[The following clause was added to the Memorial to the Town Council.^ 



" That in these circumstances, your Memorialists would respectfully 

 express their hope, that the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Coun- 

 cil will reconsider their former Resolution, and give their support to a 

 survey upon the scale of ten feet to one mile." 



The Society unanimously agreed to adopt the draft of the Memo- 

 rial, directing the copy to the Lords of the Treasury to be confided to 



