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HIS TORT of the SOCIETK 



riations of the barometer do a<5lually exift ; that more infor- 

 mation on the fubje6l is neceflary before any explanation of 

 them can be attempted ; and that it is in the countries lying 

 near to the equator that we are to look for thefe periodical 

 variations lead interrupted and obfcured by accidental irregula- 

 rities. 



1796. 



Feb. I. 



Mr Playfair on 

 the weather of 

 X795- 



Feb. 15. 



Biographical 

 account of Lord 

 Abercr-omby. 



' Pbyf. CI. Mr Playfair read an Account of the Weather 

 for 1 795, extra6led from, his Journal kept for the Society. 



Lit, CI. IVIr Mackenzie read his Biographical Account of 

 Lord Abercromby. [See Hiftory of the Society, Appendix, 



p-(i)]- 



March 7. 



Jlr Wallace on 

 geometrical po- 

 rifms. 



Phyf. CI. A paper was communicated, containing Certain 

 Geometrical Porifms, with their Application to the Solution of 

 Problems, by Mr William Wallace, Afhftant-teacher of the 

 Mathematics in the Academy of Perth. [See this volume, Part II. 

 No. V. p. 107.] 



March 21. 



Biographical 

 account of Dr 

 Rcbertfon. 



April 4. 



Biographical 

 account of Dr 

 Roebuck. 



May 2. 



Extradl of % 

 letter from 

 W. Hall, Efq; 



Lit. CI. Mr Stewart read the firft part of his Biographical 

 Account of the late Dr Robertson. 



Pbyf. CI. A Biographical Account of the late Dr Roebuck 

 was read, communicated by Mr ProfelTor Jardine of the Uni^ 

 verfity of Glafgow. [See Hift. Appen. No. IV. p. (65)]. 



Phyf. CI. An Extra<a of a Letter from Mr Hall to Sir James 

 Hall, Bart, was read, giving an Account of an Extraordinary 

 Halo of the Moon, obferved on the i8th of February laft. [See 

 this Volume, Part IL No. VII. p. 173.] 



Phf- 



