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THE Proceedings for 1882β83, PP. 592, 23 plates, and 3 maps, have just been issued, and contain the following papers: βOn insensibility arising from a deficiency of oxygen in the air, by Dr. Wallace, president; on technical education, by David Sandeman and E. M. Dixon, B.Sc.; on the decay of building stones, by Dr. Wallace; on some new infusoria, by William Milne, M.A.; note on Lippmann's capillary electrometer, by Dr. McKendrick; on milk and milk pollution, by Dr. John Dougall; on Struther's process for pulverising diamondiferous ore, by Wallace Fairweather, C. E.; on the use of litmus, methyl orange, phenacetolin, and phenolphthalein as indicators, by R. S. Thomson; on approximative photometric measurements of sun, moon, cloudy sky, and electric and other artificial lights, by Sir William Thomson; on the preservation of food by cold, by T. J. Coleman; on the clauses in the Glasgow Police Bill having reference to the prevention and mitigation of disease, by Dr. Ebenezer Duncan; on the ships and shipping trade of Great Britain, by N. Dunlop; on the iron ore industry of the north of Spain, by J. J. Jenkins; on the use of rosolic acid as an indicator, with additional notes on phenolphthalein and methyl orange, by R. S. Thomson; on architecture in Glasgow, by J. Sellars, jun., LA.; on the water Irghways of the interior of Africa, with notes on slave hunting and the means of its suppression, by James Stevenson, F. R.G.S.; on a new seismograph, by Thomas Gray, B. Sc.; on the fertilisation of flowers, by Rev. A. S. Wilson, M. A.; on algin, a substance obtained from some of the commoner species of marine alga;, by E. C. C. Stanford; on chemical industries, by R. R. Tatlock; on nitroglycerine, dynamite, and blasting gelatine, by George McRoberts, manager of the Works of Nobel's Explosives Company; on the action of heat and the chlorides of phosphorus upon the water salts of hypophosphorus, phosphorus, and phosphoric acids, by Dr. Otto Richter; on a volumetric process for the estimation of cobalt and nickel, by Dr. John Clark; and, on the development and generic relations of the corals of the carboniferous system of Scotland, by James Thomson, F.G.S.
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The Philosophical Society of Glasgow . Nature 29, 89 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029089a0
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