PROCEEDINGS 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



FIFTY-THIRD SESSION. 



1st November, 1854. — Walter Crdm, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Dr. John Taylor, Professor of Natural Philosophy in Anderson's Insti- 

 tution, was elected a member, having been proposed in the last session. 



Mr. Liddell reported that the deputation appointed by the Council to 

 proceed to the meeting of the British Association in Liverpool, in the 

 month of September, and invite that body to hold its next Annual Meet- 

 ing in Glasgow, had fulfilled its instructions, and that the Association had 

 agreed to accept of the invitation, and resolved to hold its next meeting 

 in Glasgow, in September 1855. 



A letter from the Secretary to the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury 

 was read, dated July 11, 1853, acknowledging receipt of the Society's 

 memorial on the subject of Patents. 



The President read " Minutes of the Life and Character of Dr. Joseph 

 Black," and afterwards communicated a Notice from Professor Liebig of 

 a discovery in Cholera Prevention, which has been made in Munich by 

 Professor Thiersch and Professor Pettenkofer. The latter paper called 

 forth some remarks from Dr. Crawford as to the imperfect nature of the 

 observations described. 



November 15. — ^The Society met this evening. On taking the chair, 

 the President communicated the melancholy intelligence of the death of 

 Mr. Liddell, the Treasurer, which had occurred on the morning of that 

 day ; and concluded some remarks on the great personal worth and 

 usefulness of Mr. Liddell, and on his services to this Society, by moving 

 that it be remitted to the Secretaries to prepare a memorial of that gentle- 



