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The Royal Scottish Society of Arts
Subjects Discussed |
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The Royal Scottish Society of Arts,
held about six meetings each year, during the winter months. Papers
were read on a wide variety of subjects, not today associated with the
Arts.
There were papers on
engineering, railways, optics, and
photography.
Several papers on photography were read at RSSA Meetings in Edinburgh from
1839 onwards.
This was more than a decade before
photographic societies
began to be established around Britain, each holding its own meetings,
with many of the proceedings recorded in
photographic journals
from the 1850s onwards.
Below are titles of some of the
papers read at RSSA Lectures, for periods beginning 1839,
1844, 1850 and
1857.
I have abbreviated the titles in some cases.
I have shown the papers on
photography and related subjects in red.
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Lectures
1839-1843 |
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27 Mar
1839
10 Apr
1839
17 Apr
1839 |
On Photography
by Andrew Fyfe, Vice President of
Society of Arts, Edinburgh |
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1 Jun
1839 |
Notes on
Daguerre’s Photography
by Sir John
Robinson , Secretary to Royal
Society of Edinburgh &c. &c. |
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1839? |
Notes on a cheap & Simple Method of
preparing paper for Photographic Drawing
in which the use of any salt
of silver is dispensed with
Mungo Pontin
FRSE, Foreign Secretary, Society of Arts for Scotland. |
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15 Jan 1840 |
On
Daguerreotype
by Andrew Fyfe
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9 Nov 1840 |
Description of the Process of
Daguerreotype and Remarks on the Action of Light in that process
both in respect to the Landscape and the Miniature Portraits
by
Thomas Davidson MSA, Optician,
Edinburgh |
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11 Apr 1842 |
On Producing the effect of Fog in a
Portable Dioarma
constructed by Goerge Tait FRSSA,
Advocate |
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23 Jan 1843 |
Description of a Portable Diorama,
which may be viewed by a number of persons at a time
by George Tait, Advocate, FRSSA |
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Lectures
1844-1849 |
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13 Jan 1845 |
On
admitting the Back-Light in Portable Dioramas, upon different
parts of a Picture at different times; on using Light form Oil &c.
by
George Tait Esq. FRSSA |
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1845? |
Remarks on the Trade Winds and other Curents in the atmosphere in
Barbados, with an attempt to
develop the Causes of Hurricanes in the West Indies |
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12 May 1845 |
On the
Registry of the Hourly Variations of the Thermometer by means
of Photographic Paper
by Mungo Pontin Esq FRSE
FRSSA |
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23 Jun 1845 |
On the
Employment of Oxygen as a Means of Resuscitation in Asphyxia |
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9 Mar 1846 |
Description of a Model of a Machine invented by him for Drawing the
Perfect Egg-Oval or Composite Ellipse
by David Ramsay Hay
FRSSA, 90 George Street, Edinburgh |
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25 Jan 1847 |
Analysis of Pottery made by the Red
Indians of North America |
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10 May 1847 |
Decomposition of Water
by Platinum and the Black Oxide of Iron |
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26 Mar 1849 |
Description
of Several New and Simple Stereoscopes
by
Sir David Brewster |
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c. 1848 |
Account of
a Binocular Camera
by
Sir David Brewster |
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Dec 1849 |
Notice of a
Chromatic Stereoscope
by
Sir David Brewster |
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Lectures
1850-1856 |
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10 Feb 1851 |
Improvements on the River Clyde in the past 100 years |
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8 Jun 1846 |
Building
Leith & Granton Railway Tunnel |
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27 Jan 1851 |
Description
of a Self Acting Apparatus for Disconnecting the Carriages of
a Railway Train from the Tender upon the Engine Leaving the Rails |
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9 Feb 1852 |
Cast Iron
Swing Bridge - Peterhead Harbour |
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12 Dec 1853 |
Notice of
the Time Ball at the Royal Observatory
by Professor Piazzi Smyth FRSE |
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12 Dec 1853 |
Suggestions
for a Simple System of Decimal Notation and Currency after
the Portuguese Model |
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9 Jan 1854 |
The Action
of Sales and Rudders |
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Feb 1854 |
On Collodion Calotype
by
Thomas Rodger jun., St
Andrews? |
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10 Dec 1855 |
Preparing
Siliceous and other Fossils for Microscopic Investigation |
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2 Mar 1856 |
Gyroscope – and a new experiment to determine the Rotation of
the Earth |
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Lectures
1857-1860 |
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1857? |
Experiences
with a Free-Revolver Stand for a Telescope at Sea, during a
voyage to Tenerife in the Summer of 1856
by
Professor C Piazzi
Smyth FRSL FRSE |
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22 Mar 1858 |
On the Fall of Rain in
Scotland
in 1857 |
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14 Dec 1857 |
An Improved Electric Lamp |
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22 Feb 1858 |
On Photographic
Illustrations for Books
by
Professor C Piazzi
Smyth
FRSE VPRSSArt |
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13 Dec 1858 |
On the Floor and Surface
Decorations amongst the
Hindus |
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Nov 1859 |
Description of the Clock-drop for
the Time-Ball on
Nelson’s Monument
by Frederick
Jones(?) Ritchie, Clock & Watchmaker, Edinburgh |
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25 Mar 1860 |
On a new
Lime Light
by Alexander Bryson |
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