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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND.
Founded 1806. Supported by voluntary contribu-
tion; 102 to 110, Castle Street, Townhead. Sale
shops at the Institution, and 32 Glassford Street.
The Hon. John Blackie, jun., Lord Provost, pre-
sident ; his Grace the Duke of Montrose, his Grace
the Duke of Argyll, Lord Belhaven and Stenton,
Lord Blantyre, Robert Dalglish, M.P., William
Graham, M.P., honorary vice-presidents ; from the
Royal Infirmary- — Robert M'Cowan, James Hannan,
"Win. Kerr ; from the University of Glasgow — Rev.
Dr. Jackson ; from the Town Council — Bailie John
Taylor, jun. ; from the Merchants' House — Richard
Kidston, George Readman ; from the Trades' House
— Thomas Blyth, deacon-convener, James Bain ;
from the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons — Dr.
J. Stewart ; from the ministers of Glasgow — Rev.
George S. Burns, directors. The following gentle-
men were elected from the contributors — A. Orr
Ewing, James A. Campbell, Joseph Morrison, Peter
M'Donald, Wm. M'Adam, Thos. P. Stewart, Peter
Walker, Wm. Brown, James Templeton; Malcolm
M'Caul, 77 Queen Street, treasurer; Robt. Jameson,
145 AVest George Street, secretary ; Dr. Lapraik,
surgeon; Mrs. M'Minn, teacher of music; D. T.
Aitken, teacher; Miss Rankine, matron; Robert
Thomson, superintendent.
Board and Education, &c, for Blind Girls and
Boys from parishes and other charitable sources,
£12 12s. per annum. Parlour Boarders, £30 per
annum.
Blind Children and Adults may be taught to
read gratuitously if poor and properly recommended,
and in other cases at a moderate fee. Pupils to pro-
vide the requisite books.
Visitors to the asylum can be received any day
from 10 till 2 o'clock, and from 3 till 6 o'clock, and
on Saturdays from 10 till 2. Donations of clothes,
for the use of the poorer inmates, will be thankfully
received by Mr. Thomson, superintendent at the
asvlum.
GLASGOW MISSION TO THE BLIND,
For visiting the blind at their own houses, teaching
them to read, and providing books for their use. W.
P. Paton, president ; Archibald Arrol, honorary
treasurer ; James Miller, 5 South Hanover Street,
honorary secretary. Office, Religious Institution
Rooms. Alexander Barnhill, superintendent.
LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE GLASGOW
MISSION FOR THE BLIND,
For visiting blind females, and, through means of a
female teacher, teaching them knitting, and providing
work for them at their own homes. James Crum,
Busby, president ; Miss M. Pagan, treasurer ; Miss
Sawers, 8 Newton Place, secretary.
THE GLASGOW IRONMONGERS AND
IRON MERCHANTS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Established 1859.
Alex. Davie, 113 Argyle Street, president; Hugh
M'Kellar, 73 Argyle Street, treasurer ; Geo. Virtue,
129 Trongate, secretary; W. P. Moore, Wm. Hood,
David Rollo, Donald M'Lean, Joseph Hunter, and
Donald Brown, directors; Dr. William M'Kellar,
108 South Dundas Street, medical officer; Peter
Prentice, officer.
The object of the society is to afford relief to mem-
bers who may be rendered incapable of attending to
business by disease, accident, or infirmity, and for
securing a reversionary payment at death. The
meetings are held on the first Thursday of each
month, at 8 p.m., in Angus' Temperance Hotel, 127
Argyle Street.
THE JOURNEYMEN GOLDSMITHS'
FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Instituted in 1 825.
This society has for its object the relief of its
members who may be incapable of attending to their
business through illness, &c, and for securing at
death a payment for funeral expenses ; the society
now comprises seventy members, and has a capital
of £550. The meetings of the society are held in
26 Glassford Street, on the evenings of the first
Monday in February, May, August, and November.
Peter Morrison, preses ; Alex. Ross, late preses ;
Geo. M'Lean, treasurer; James Ewing, secretary;
George Bolton, officer.
GROCERS' EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.
Instituted in 1854.
Office-Bearers for 1865-66.
Campbell Blair, president; James Laird and Wm.
Anderson, vice-presidents; John M'Kechnie, 40 Ja-
maica Street, secretary; C. M. Whyte, 7 Madeira
Court, Argyle Street, treasurer.
The objects of this association are the furtherance
of the Early Closing Movement, and the promotion
of the literary and mental powers of its members.
Meeting-house, Garrick Temperance Hotel, Stock-
well Street.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
INSTITUTION.
GLASGOW BRANCH.
Sir James Campbell, Peter Clouston, Wm. Euing,
Mungo Campbell, Lewis Potter, William Stirling,
David M'Cowan, John I. Wright, Alexander Crum
Ewing, John Burns, Cunningham Smith, Francis
Maxwell, R. F. Alston, Archd. Orr Ewing, George
Lumsden, David Macbrayne, James C. Burns, local
committee; Andrew A. Rankin, Skelmorlie, hon.
secretary; Andrew Small, 12 James Watt Street,
hon. treasurer.