£20 Proceedings of the Society of Arts. 



the construction recommended by Mr Faraday, with a model, — read and ex- 

 hibited 15th March 1837, — the Society's Silver Medal, value Five Sovereigns. 



10. To Mr John Lothian, 21. Athole Cresent, Edinburgh, for his Model 

 and Description of an Equable Flow-cock for bottling Liquors, without dis- 

 turbing the Sediment in the Cask, and without loss of time, — read and exhi- 

 bited 10th May 1837, — the Society's Silver Medal, value Five Sovereigns. 



1 1. To the Companies of Messrs Maclure and Macdonald, and of Messrs 

 Allan and Ferguson, lithographers, Glasgow, for their respective Specimens 

 of Lithographic Drawing and Printing, Irom transfer Drawings, — exhibited 

 24th May 1837, — in respect that these Specimens offered in competition are 

 judged to be equal in merit, — the Society's Silver Medal, value Eight Sover- 

 eigns, to each of the Companies. 



12. To the Companies of Messrs Allan and Ferguson, lithographers, Glas- 

 gow, for their Specimens of Lithographic Drawing and Printing, from Chalk 

 Drawings, — the Society's Silver Medal, value Eight Sovereigns. 



13. To Mr Thomas White, wright, Straiton, county of Edinburgh, for his 

 Model and Description of a Snow-Plough, for clearing new-fallen snow from 

 foot pavements in Tovvn, and from the walks in pleasure-grounds, — read and 

 exhibited 7th December 1836, — Two Sovereigns. 



The Committee reported, that there had been no competition for the fol- 

 lowing prizes : — 1st Prize, Society's Gold Medal of 25 Sovereigns ; 2d ditto, 

 ditto, 18 ditto. 



Besides the thanks acknowledged to be due to all those Gentlemen who 

 have sent communications to the Society, the specisi thanks of the Society 

 were given to the following Gentlemen for their respective communications, 

 viz. : — 



1. To Sir George Mackenzie of CouU, Baronet, F.R.S.E., M.S. A., for his 

 Model and Description of an Annular Fountain Table Lamp (Argand burner) 

 calculated for being used with Cocoa-nut or other concrete Oils; — read and 

 exhibited 23d November 1836. * 



2. To Mr Samuel Brown, jun., Haddington, for his paper on the Mucilage 

 of l!'..- Fuci, with remarks on its application to the Useful arts ; — read 26th 

 April 1837. 



3. To Edward Sang, Esq., F.R.S.E., C.S.A., for his various Communica- 

 tions, and the general interest he has taken in the Society's proceedings dur- 

 ing the past Session. 



4. To Mungo Ponton, Esq., W.S., F.R.S.E., M.S. A., for a Paper on the 

 Advantage of increasing the Adhesion of Wheels of Locomotive Carriages to 

 the Rails ; and on a method of increasing that Adhesion, and also of prevent- 

 ing the Wheels from Starting off the Kails ; with Drawing and INIodel ; — read 

 and exhibited 24th May 1837. 



The Society's Gold Medal, value Twenty Sovereigns, lately awarded for 

 the best Alphabet and best Method of Printing for the Use of the Blind, was 

 delivered to the heirs of the late Dr Edmund Fry of London. 



* Since this Lamp was submitted to the Society, Sir George Mackenzie has 

 succeeded in burning Cocoa Oil in the Common Lamp. 



