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 At the Glasgow Observatory, where Dr. Ure resided for several years, he was honoured with a most friendly visit by the celebrated Dr. Herschel.

In 1818 a paper was read before the Royal Society, and was published in the “Philosophical Transactions” of that year—‘New experimental researches on some of the leading doctrines of caloric, particularly, on the relation between the elasticity, temperature, and latent heat of different vapours, and on thermometric admeasurement and