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being ready to report the result of trials as to their relative results, was con- 

 tinned. 



Mr John Eager, teacher of music, 48 North Fredrick Street, was admitted 

 an ordinary member. 



The foUowing gentlemen were proposed by the Council and 

 elected honorary members, viz : 



M. I. Brunei, Esq. F.R.S., civil engineer, London; the Rev. Lant. Car- 

 penter, LL.D., Bristol ; James Cleland, Esq. LL.D. Glasgow, President of the 

 Glasgow and Clydesdale Statistical Society, &c. &c ; John Alston, Esq. of 

 Rosemount, Patron and Treasurer of the Asylum for the Industrious Blind, 

 Glasgow. 



The Council reported concernmg apartments in Hanover Street, which 

 have been taken as a Museum, for the accommodation of the models belon<.- 

 mg to the Society, and for meetings of committees. ° 



The Society held its first Meeting for this Session, in the 

 Royal Institution, on Wednesday 15th November 1837, at 8 

 o'clock P.M.— Sir John Graham Dalyell, on taking the Chair, 

 as one of the Vice-Presidents, adverted to the objects of the 

 Societyj and remarked— 



That during the preceding sixteen sessions, since its institution, probably 

 none other had diffused equal benefits. Contrasting the difficulties which 

 formerly opposed communications of the works of the ingenious, with their 

 present advantages, they had only now to submit their projects, or their in- 

 ventions, to the Society, to be ensured of patronage. But he desired par- 

 ticularly to enforce, that it was not perfect and completed works alone which 

 ivere desirable. The progress of the arts and sciences was 8!ow,_composed 

 of many parts,_the offspring of many inventors and improvers ; so that even 

 the slightest hints and suggestions might prove of infinite utiUty. Nowhere 

 was this better exemplified than in the slender commencements of a watch, 

 the most delicate—or in the origin of the steam-engine, the most powerful J 

 of machines. The Society embraced many different objects, of which a fair 

 and promising specimen was afforded by the billet of the evening. Most in. 

 teresting facts were continually emerging concerning the rapidity of travers- 

 ing the country ; but now it appeared as if a new epoch in history were about 

 toopen, in the instantaneous communication of intelligence by physical and 

 mechanical properties ingeniously combined. 



The following communications were then laid before the So- 

 ciety : 



1. Essay on the forms of the Teeth of Wheels :_Part I. Wheels with the 



Axes parallel to each other. By Edward Sang, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.S.A 



drawings were exhibited. 



2. Drawing and verbal Descrii)tion of an improved vertical Watcli. By Mr 

 Thomas Robertson, watchmaker, Rothesay The Watch was exhibited. 



3. Drawing and verbal description of an improved Lever Watch. By the 



same. 



