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sciences of zoology and botany. The very valuable and appropriate tes- 

 timonial which you have been pleased to present to me, I accept, I need 

 scarcely assure you, with feelings of the liveliest pleasure ; it will hence- 

 forth be the companion of my voyages, and it will ever bring to mind the 

 agreeable recollection of my fellow-associates within the walls of " Old 

 Trinity/' of their cordial sympathy with me, in the applause which my 

 Arctic services have elicited, and of their ardent appreciation of my la- 

 bours in the triple cause of humanity, discovery, and science. 



Dk. Stokes, Regius Professor of Physic, said he had now the honour 

 of moving the thanks of the members of the Association to the Right Hon. 

 the Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, to the Vice- Chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity, to their worthy Provost, to the members of the Board, and to all the 

 other distinguished visitors who had honoured them with their presence 

 on that occasion. He would content himself by simply moving the reso- 

 lution, and observing that it was the general opinion, not alone of the 

 members of that Association, but, he might say, of the educated portion 

 of British society, that the University of Dublin had taken a distinguished 

 place in the encouragement not only of natural history, but of the other 

 liberal arts also. He believed, if they compared the old Universities of 

 Oxford and Cambridge with that of Dublin, it would be found that the 

 latter had outstripped the others in the practical application of the means 

 for the advancement of those ennobling pursuits. 



The Right Hon. Joseph Napieb, LL.D., in seconding the resolution, 

 said they were all deeply indebted, indeed, to the distinguished visitors 

 who had upon that occasion enabled them to mingle together the sympa- 

 thies of the young with the sanction of those of maturer years. He took 

 for granted, however, that the resolution included the ladies amongst 

 the distinguished visitors, although they had been portioned off to a se- 

 parate department; but there they had been enabled to add sunshine 

 to daylight upon that most interesting occasion. The original of the 

 portrait which hung above them (Bishop Berkeley) once observed, that 

 the highest praise that could be conferred on woman was, that her name 

 should never be mentioned ; but he was bound to say that in those days 

 they had not yet exorcised the spirit of celibacy out of the University. 

 They now lived in happier times, when the name of a lady might be 

 honourably mentioned, and he rejoiced that so many of their fairer 

 countrymen — well, that was only a lapsus Ungues, and it reminded 



