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xvi ASSOCIATIONS TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN THEIR PROPER PLACES.
ROYAL BOTANIC INSTITUTION OF
GLASGOW.
Office-Bearers for 1869-70.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, president; Hugh
Colquhoun, M.D., vice-president ; Dr. Charles
Ritchie, Archd. Orr Ewing, Sir James Lumsden,
the Hon. Wm. Rae Arthur, Lord Provost of Glasgow,
Alexander Kay, Wm. Ker, directors appointed by
the proprietors; Rev. Professor W. P. Dickson,
Professor Allen Thomson, Professor Alex. Dickson,
directors appointed by the Senate of the University;
Gustavus Liepmann, Alexander Monro, George J.
Doddrell, "William Walls, James Readman, Gavin
Miller, Alexander Drew, Alexander Paul, Hugh B.
Muir, Thomas Watson, special council ; Alexander
Sloan, C.A., 108 St. Vincent Street, secretary and
treasurer ; Robert Bullen, curator.
GLASGOW SABBATH SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
Archibald Robertson, president; John Pirrie and
John Neilson Cuthbertson, vice-presidents; Henry
Taylor, 29 Bath Street, treasurer; Wm. Kerr, 42
Hope Street, convener of mission committee; Alex-
ander Sloan, C.A , 106 St. Vincent Street, and
James Brown, 49 Mains Street, Blythswood Holm,
secretaries.
The committee consists of a representative from
each Parochial Sabbath School Society in Glasgow
and vicinity.
GLASGOW SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, patron; the
Lord Provost, chairman ; John Matheson, deputy-
chairman ; David Dreghorn, P. Clouston, J. H.
Young, J. Ure, J. Brown, W.Whyte, A. Ronaldson,
J. N. Fleming, J. C. Wakefield, W. Euing, H. Baird,
P. Whyte, A. Crum, J. Coulter, Rev. D. Runciman,
D.D., Rev. G. K. Flindt, Rev. J. Frazer, M.A.,
Rev. A. M'Ewen, D.D., Rev. W. C. Smith, D.D.,
Rev. D. Brown, T. Hill, Wm. W. Watson, A. Col-
quhoun, J. Wilkie, W.Wordie, D. Matheson, general
committee; D. Dreghorn, P. White, J. Matheson,
"Wm. Whyte, J. Coulter, acting committee ; A. Scott,
138 Hope Street, secretary; D. Matheson, 32 Ex-
change Square, treasurer; R. M'Broom, 12 North
Woodside Road, inspector ; David Ellis, 47 Maitland
Street, assistant ; R. Neilson, collector. Subscrip-
tions and donations thankfully received by the
secretary and treasurer. Communications in refer-
ence to cases of cruelty, addressed to the inspector as
above, will meet with prompt attention.
GLASGOW CURATIVE MESMERIC
ASSOCIATION.
Athenaeum Buildings, Ingram St. — Instituted 1861.
J. W. Jackson, 39 St. George's Road, president ;
J. Hay, 110 Bothwell Street, vice-president; Cyrus-
Gracie, 21 College Street, secretary.
Members meet every Thursday evening from 8 till
10 o'clock, in the Athenaeum Committee Rooms, for
the purpose of receiving and disposing of applications
for treatment, for reporting cases of. alleviation and:
cure, and for mutual encouragement and advice.
GLASGOW CITY MISSION.
W. G. Mitchell, Esq. of Carwood, president;
eleven vice-presidents, thirty-four directors, and
fifty-one missionaries; Scott Moncrieff Penney, Esq.,
16 St. Vincent Place, treasurer; Rev. John Renfrew,
75 St. George's Place, secretary.
GLASGOW SOCIETY OF SONS OF MINISTERS
,OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,
"Was instituted 1790 ; Incorporated by a Charter
from the City of Glasgow, 1791.
Their annual meeting is held on the last Thursday
of March.
The Very Rev. Principal Barclay, of the Glasgow-
University, president ; Adam Paterson, secretary ;
William Auld, treasurer; Archd. Glen, Professor G.
H. B. Macleod, Dr. Irvine, Rev. W. Sym, Rev. Dr.
G. S. Burns, Harvey Anderson, Rev. Dr Grant, Rev.
Henry D. Hill, Robert M'Gowan, council; stated ac-
cording to official seniority.
The stated meetings are on the last Thursday of
July and November, and on the Thursday before the
annual meeting. They grant no permanent pension.
Applications for pecuniary aid must be made every
year, and lodged with the secretary before the 1st of
March. The following facts must be distinctly at-
tested on personal knowledge by respectable persons
to whom they are known: — 1. That the applicants
are children of a minister of the Church of Scotland,
whose fathers are dead. 2. The age, progress in
education, destination, prospects, or employment of
each child in the family, old or young. 3. How
they have hitherto been supported, and the means of
their present subsistence, of whatever kind, whether
certain or precarious, and general!}' that the facts set
forth in the petitions are truly stated in all respects.
Applicants to appoint some person in town to call
on the secretary, 45 West George street, on the first
Tuesday of April, for answers to their petitions.
The society are also trustees on the late Miss
Janet Paisley's Trust Fund, for the benefit of the
daughters of deceased clergymen of the Church of
Scotland.