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MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Th-k British Association for the advancement of Science has this 

 year held its Thirteenth Annual Meeting at Cork. In consequence of 

 the distance from the metropolis, the attendance was not so numerous 

 as usual. The proceedings commenced on Wednesday, the 1 6th 

 August, hy the meeting of the General Committee to arrange the 

 business of the week. The Secretary, Col. Sabine, in the report 

 which he had read, announced a grant from the Government of 

 £1,000, foi the puq^ose of publishing a Catalogue of the Stars in 

 the Histioire Celeste of Lalande, and of Lucaille's Catalogue of the 

 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere. 



The first General Meeting was held on Thursday Evening, in the 

 Com Exchange, when the Marquis of Northampton (in the room of 

 Lord Francis Egerton, who was kept away by indisposition) resigned 

 the presidency to the Earl of Rosse. Mr. John Taylor read the 

 accounts. The sum received at Manchester, from members, was 

 £1,737 ; contributions and sale of books, £372 ; ladies and sectional 

 tickets, £364. The sums paid in grants for prosecuting scientific 

 pm-poses was £1,565. The property of the Association was, in 

 Three per Cent. Consols, £5,500; balance of cash, £496 ; unsold 

 reports, say £1,000; total, £6,700. The receipts at Cork amount 

 to about £600. 



The President (the Earl of Rosse) having taken the chair, after a 

 short delay, rose to deliver the annual address, of which we can only 

 present our readers with a very brief extract, and to which we would 

 innte attention. The observations of the Noble President, applying 

 as they do equally to other Institutions of a kindred nature, will be 

 read with interest by all connected with the Literary and Scientific 

 Institutions of our Town ; after some remarks relative to his appoint- 

 ment to the oflfice, &c., he observed, " It was impossible not to parti- 

 cipate in the gratification which all must feel in seeing so many men 

 of eminence assembled to assist each other in promoting objects of 

 such deep and general interest. The man of the world who, busied 

 in the changing scenes of life, watches with fixed attention the actions 

 of men, while he occasionally perhaps casts a passing glance at science 

 as it haj>pens to present to him some new wonder — he cannot fail to 



