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ready to agree with me in the opinion, that the studies as 

 now conducted in the very best style of didactic composition, 

 are such as are calculated to impart incalculable benefit to 

 those who attend the University, whatever may be the de- 

 partment in which they study, from that presided over by my 

 venerable and excellent friend, Professor Jameson, the father 

 of the University, to the youngest of our Professors — (loud 

 applause.) 



Vote of Thanks to the Hoyal College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons for their Hospitality. 



Professor Airey, Astronomer-Royal, said, that from his 

 earliest youth he had derived more benefit from books written 

 by distinguished parties in Edinburgh than from any other 

 class of books whatever ; and that he valued most highly 

 his acquaintance with the distinguished men who now adorned 

 its chairs. He then expressed the obligations of the Associa- 

 tion to the medical profession in Edinburgh, for the kind- 

 ness and cordiality of their welcome ; and concluded by pro- 

 posing a vote of thanks to the Royal College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons for hospitality. 



Sir C. Pasley seconded the motion. 



Vote of Thanks to the Jloyal Society of Edinburgh^ the Board 

 for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures, and other 

 Literary and Scientific Societies in Edinburgh. 



The Marquis of Northampton moved a vote of thanks to 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Boai'd for the Encourage- 

 ment of Arts and Manufactures, and the other literary and 

 scientific bodies which had contributed to the comfort of the 

 members of the British Association. They had come to a 

 town where science not only flourished, but where literature 

 and art existed in a high degree of perfection. Architecture, 

 also, had achieved many triumphs in this splendid metropolis ; 

 and he could not help feeling great satisfaction that within a 

 few months he had enjoyed the opportunity of compainng the 

 childhood of architecture — when it was most vigorous, it is 

 true — as it is displayed in Egyptian Thebes, and as it exists 

 in its manhood here — (applause.) One of the great objects 

 of the British Association was to enable the philosophers of 



