"Ticketed houses" of Glasgow, with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James B.
Date:
1888
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Credit: "Ticketed houses" of Glasgow, with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. EIGHTY-SIXTH SESSION. PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. [Read before the Society, 7th November, 1S88.] On the “ Ticketed Houses” of Glasgow, rvith an Interrogation of the Facts for Guidance towards the Amelioration of the Lives of their Occupants. By James B. Russell, B.A., M.D., LL.D., President of the Society. We open our new session under circumstances of peculiar sadness. It is only a few weeks since a distinguished member of this Society was removed from among us in the very heyday of his reputation. To-morrow some of us will follow to the grave the remains of a former occupant of this chair, equally distinguished in his own sphere. Both were friends of mine; and I shall only, on the present occasion, endeavour to express what I find in my own mind as the impression left by their contact with me, leaving to other and more competent hands the summing-up of what they were to the Society and to the professions which they adorned. I had abundant opportunity of forming some estimate of Mr. Sellars as an architect, through occasions arising from my official