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COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATIONS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
7 West George Street.
Board of Directors for 1886. — President, Sir Jas.
Bain ; vice-president and lion, treas., D. Guthrie, Esq^.;
secy, and depute treas., W. H. Hill ; librarian, W. Hurst.
Directors, David Bannerman, J. C. Bolton, M.P.,
Robert Gourlay, David M'Cowan, Jobn M'Laren,
John Miller, John Ramsay, M.P., H. L. Seligmann,
Sir Chas. Tennant, M.P., James Aitken, Sir Jas. Bain,
Dr. W. G. Blackie, Hugh Brown, John Galloway,
Leonard Gow, Jas. King, James L. Mitchell, R. Young,
Ales. Allan, Jas. Campbell, T. Henderson, William
Pearce, M.P., James Reid, David Sandeman, George
Smith, Sir Jas. Watson, W. Eenny Watson, Arch.
Arrol, Stewart Clark, Walter Duncan, David Guthrie,
John R. Kay, Stephen Mason, M.P., H. S. Macpher-
son, John Muir, Paul Rottenburg.
The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, incorporated
ty roj'al charter in 1793, includes at present upwards
of 1000 members, representing the principal merchants,
manufacturers, and sliippers in the city and neigh-
bourhood, and is recognized as the principal medium
of communication with the Government and Legisla-
ture on all commercial matters. The executive power
is lodged in a board of thirty-sis directors, chosen at
the annual general meetings. The board meets for
the discussion of mercantile questions once a month,
or more frequently if found necessary.
THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND
SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND (INCOR-
PORATED).
Established to facilitate the eschange of informa-
tion and ideas amongst its members, to place on
record the results of esperience elicited in discussion,
and to promote the advancement of science and prac-
tice in Engineering and Shipbuilding. The General
Meetings of the Institution take place monthly from
October to April inclusive, in the Hall of the Insti-
tution, 207 Bath Street. Monthly meetings of
the Graduate Section are also held during the session.
The Transactions of the Institution are published
monthly during the session, and in volume form at
close of session. The hbrary of the institution con-
tains engineering and scientific works, and the Tran-
sactions of various societies.
Office-bearers, Twenty-ninth Session, 1885-86 : —
President, Prof. Jas. Thomson, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.,
&c.; vice-presidents, T. A. Arrol, C. P. Hogg, C.E.,
and J. Inglis, jun. ; councillors, Robt. Dundas, C.E.,
Wm. Macraillan, F. W. Dick, James Gilchrist, M.
Holmes, Prof. Elgar, LL.D., C. C. Lindsav, C.E.,
John Thomson, H. Dyer, C.E., M.A., and' George
Russell ; finance committee, Prof. J. Thomson, con-
vener, T. A. Arrol, Wm. Macmillan, R. Dundas;
library committee, C. C. Lindsay, convener, C. P.
Hogg, H. Dyer, M. Holmes; hon. treasurer, J. M.
Gale, C.E., 23 Miller Street ; secretary and editor of
Transactions, W. J. Millar, C.E., 261 W. George St.
GLASGOW CORN TRADE ASSOCIATION,
G. W. Clark, chairman ; D. Bannerman, vice-chair-
man ; Jas. Wilson, treasurer; J. M'Neill, J. Farquhar,
W. Johnstone, D. M'Corquodale, T. Kirkpatrick, A.
Rintoul, Jas. S. Gibb, Robert R. Ure, James Bald,
committee: John M'Dougall, secretary, 56 Hope St.
THE GLASGOW WINE, SPIRIT, AND BEER ;
TRADE ASSOCIATION.
President, Jas. M'William (of J. & J. M'William),;
38 Queen Street; vice-president, David Hamilton;
treasurer, John Watson, 205 West George St.; secre-
tary, George Millar, 53 Waterloo St.
The objects of this Association are to protect the
just rights of the members, to watch over injurious
legislation, to defend in courts of law if prosecuted on
frivolous or malicious grounds, and, if need be, carry
their cases to the superior courts.
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GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
GUARDIAN SOCIETY
FOR THE PROTECTION OF TRADE.
Head offices, 145 Queen Street, Glasgow; brancheSj:
Dundee and Newcastle-ou-Tyne.
David Sandeman, Esq., president ; Pearce Camp-
bell, Esq., vice-president ; A. C. Rutherford, secre-
tary and manager.
ART UNION OF GLASGOW.
Instituted 1841 — Incorporated by Royal Charter,
1861.
Acting secretary, MacLean Brodie, C.A,, 22 Ren-
field Street. The object of this Association is the
promotion of the Fine Arts. A subscription of one
Guinea constitutes membership for one year, for p
which subscribers are entitled to receive the Society's: j j
Engraving, or other work of Art selected for the||jg|'.
year, and the chance of obtaining a prize paintinglu
at the Annual Meeting. M^
THE GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
LICENSED GROCERS' ASSOCIATION.
President, George Ogilvie, 108, 110 George St.';
vice-president, James Hunter, Victoria Cross, Cross-
hill ; treasurer, Wm. Rogers, 33 Struan Ter., Cross-
hill ; secretary, William Veitch Oit, writer, 93 West
Regent Street; offices, 93 West Regent Street.
The objects of the Association are to protect thei
Just rights and interests of the trade in the full and'
free exercise of their business ; and for that pui-pose, '.'■
by themselves or a legal agent, to watch and op-
pose any measure or proceeding, parliamentary oi
local, which may have an injurious or oppressive
tendency.
GLASGOW MASTER WRIGHTS' ASSOCIATION,
President, Thomas Lamb, 220 Parliamentary Ed.:
vice-presidents, John M'Cormick, 5 Balmano Street,
and John Findlay, 24 Grant Street ; secretary and
treasurer, Jas. L. Selkirk, C.A., 82 West Regent St
The objects of this Association are to promote
good feeling among parties engaged in the trade, and
a thorough understanding of what may be required
from time to time in the regulation of prices, and
generally to consider all matters afi"ecting the interests
of the trade.
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