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CHAEITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
SOCIETY FOE THE PREVENTION OF
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Patron, the Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow;
general committee, the Hon. the Lord Provost (chair-
man), Prof. Veitch, and Jas. Cleland Burns (deputy-
chairmen), Sir James Watson, Sir Peter Coats, L.
Leisler, Esq., P. Clouston, Esq., J. Wilkie, Esq., J.
Ure, Esq., J. Brown, Esq., J. C. Wakefield, Esq.,
H. Baird, Esq., Rev. David Brown, Rev. Andrew
Leiper, Alexander Crum, Esq., Thomas Hill, Esq.;
ladies' committee, Mrs. J. Napier, Misses Jeffrey,
Mrs. Coats, Mrs. Ramsay, Mrs. J. Matheson, Mrs.
Dick, Miss Boyd, Mrs. G. Matheson, Mrs. Paton,
Mrs. Bums, Miss Parker, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Ly-
sons. Miss C. C. Clark ; convener, Miss Jeffrey,
Meletia Lodge, Helensburgh ; sub-convener, Mrs.
Lysons, Hope Villa, Lenzie ; acting committee. Pro-
fessor JI'Kendrick, C. H. Alston, Esq., Rev. George
S. Burns, D.D., J. Alexander Campbell, Esq., M.P.,
J. C. Burns, Esq., J. Couper, Esq., James S. Hig-
ginbotham, Esq., T. D. FindJay, Esq., Sir William
Thomson, J. Dunlop, Esq., J. M. Martin, Professor
Veitch, John Y. King, Col. Buchanan, Colin D.
Donald,jun., Esq., Alex. M'Grigor, Esq., Jas. Grahame,
Esq., J. C. Robertson, Esq., Major Coubrough ; secre-
tary, Major Lysons, 37 Bath Street ; treasurer, Lieut-
Colonel D. Matheson, C.B., 37 Bath Street; chief in-
spector, James Scott, 37 Bath St.; and five assistants.
Office of the society, 37 Baih Street. Hours,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY DORCAS
SOCIETY.
President, Lady Campbell of Garscube ; secretary,
Mrs. Campbell Douglas, 266 St. Vincent Street ;
honoraiy secretary, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scot-
land ; honoraiy treasurer, John E. Watson, C.A.,
149 Hope Street.
Object : to supply with warm and sufficient cloth-
ing indigent patients who are so far restored to
health as to be able to leave the hospital and return
to their own homes. In certain exceptional cases the
Society also provides or helps to supply artificial
limbs and other surgical appliances, the expense of
which places them beyond the reach of the very poor.
GLASGOW DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION,
Prospect Bank, Ceosshill.
Seen on Wednesdays, at two o'clock. Mr. B. B.
Macgeorge, 24 George Square, secretary ; Mr. J.
Tasker, 26 Royal Exchange Square, treasurer.
THE
ASSOCIATION OF DEACONS OF
FOURTEEN INCORPORATED TRADES
OF GLASGOW.
Entry-money, £1 Is.; present capital, £1158 16s.
the interest of which is apportioned amongst decayed
members. Clerk, Thos. Weir, writer, 207 Ingram St.
MISSION COAST HOME, SALTCOATS.
, The object of this Home is to afford a gratuitous
care and treatment hydropathically to the suffering
'of any country or clime, and is wholly supported by
voluntary contributions unsolicited. All communi-
)i cations to be addressed to Mrs. Catherine Bryden,
I Quay Street, Saltcoats. ■
GLASGOW SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION
OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
President and patron, the Eight Hon. the Eail of
Glasgow; chairman, James Grahame, Esq., 101 St.
Vincent St. ; executive committee, J. Cleland Burns,
Esq., James Brand, Esq., C. D. Donald, Esq., Major
Lysons, Wm. Mitchell, Esq., R M. Murray, Esq.,
Lieut-Col. D. Matheson, C.B., Sheriff Spens, J. T.
Strang, Esq., Prof. Veitch ; ladies committee, Mrs.
Carritk Buchanan, Mrs. Dun, Mrs. Douglas, Mrs.
Elias Gibb, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Kelt, Miss King. Mrs.
Lysons, Mrs. M'Neal, Mrs. MacNair, Mrs. R. Jil.
Murray, Mrs. J. C. Reddle, Mrs. Simpson, !Mis3
Stewart, the Hon. Mrs. Spens, and Mrs. Wallace ;
secretary, Miss C. C. Clark, 9 Loudon Terrace, Hill-
head; law agent, Colin D. Donald, Esq., 172 St.
Vincent St.; consulting physician, Professor M'Call
Anderson, 2 Woodside Ter. ; physician. Dr. W. G.
Dunn, 2 India Street; hon. treasurer, Robt Gourlay,
Esq., Bank of Scotland; hon. secretary, Henry A.
Roxburgh, Esq., 211 Hope Street; superintendent,
A. Pirie, 169 Hill St, Garnethill ; matron, Mrs. Pirie;
officers, James Young, A. Morrison, Wm. Noble, and
Henry Toms ; collector, Martin S. Grady, 37 Berkeley
Ter. Children's Shelter, 87 Montrose Street.
THE GLASGOW EASTWOOD CLUB.
President, Alex. Crum, Esq., of Thornliebank ;
vice-presidents, David Tod, of Eastwood Park, Arch.
Brownlie, of Monkcastle, and 18 directors ; treasurer,
James Dunlop, Clydesdale Bank, PoUokshaws; secre-
tary, J. W. Steuart, 204 W. George street, Glasgow.
This society was instituted in 1797 by several
gentlemen residing in or near Glasgow connected by
birth or otherwise with the parish of Eastwood, for
the purpose of holding a social meeting once a year,
and of collecting a sum of money for distribution
among the deserving poor of that parish. About
£130 is annually distributed at the end of December,
each recipient getting 12s. 6d. The annual meeting
is held on the second Wednesday of December, to
which all connected with the parish of Eastwood are
invited.
OLD MAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY AND AGED
WOMEN'S HOME.
President, Jas. Hannan, Esq.; vice-presidents, Si^'
Jas. Watson, J. M. Hill, Esq., John Brown, jun., Esq.;
secretary, Hugh Brown, Esq., 9 Clairmont Gardens ;
treasurer, Wm. M'Ewen, Esq., 17 St Vincent Lane ;
superintendent of asylum. Arch. Findlay ; matron, Mrs.
Rome ; medical officer, Dr. Alex. Robertson, physician.
CITY OF GLASGOW NATIVE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Its object is to afford assistance to natives, and
widows and families of natives, of the city of Glas-
gow, who from reverses of fortune, or otherwise, have
been reduced to necessitous circumstances. A pay-
ment of £5 5s., either in one sum at entry or by five
successive yearly instalments of £1 Is., constitutes
membership. President, Geo. Lumsden, 30 Drums-
heugh Gardens, Edinburgh; treasurer, J. E. WatsoD,
149 Hope Street; 'secretary, James B. Kidston, 50
West Regent Street.