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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION 

 AT EDINBURGH IN SEPTEMBER 1834. 



President. 



Sir THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE, Bart., K. C. B. 



F.R.SS.L.&E., &C.&C.&C. 



Vice-Presidents. ■ 



Sir DAVID BREWSTER, and the Rev. J. ROBINSON, D. D. 



Astronomer-Royal, at Annagh. 



General Secretary. 



Rev. W. VERNON HARCOURT, F.R.S.&G.S. 



Treasurer. 



JOHN TAYLOR, Esq. F. R. S., M. G. 8. 



Assistant Secretary. 



Professor PHILLIPS. 



Local Secretaries. 



JOHN ROBISON, Esq. Sec. R. S. E., and Professor FORBES. 



Monday, Sth September. 

 The meeting was opened in the George's Street Assembly 

 Rooms, at eight o'clock in the evening, by the President of the 

 former year, Professor Sedgwick of Cambridge, with an ad- 

 dress. — The Association, he said, had exalted him to a po- 

 sition of great honour, which, at the time, he prized as above 

 all other power, and to which he would ever look back with 

 the greatest delight. From this situation he was now on the 

 point of retiring but he did so, however, with feelings of 

 exultation, if such feelings could be deemed appropriate on 

 such an occasion, as indeed they were, inasmuch as the trust 

 he held was about to devolve upon a gentleman of great 

 eminence, and who was more equal to the undertaking than 

 the person who now addressed them. The Association was 

 not one which was in a bankrupt state, or which was fall- 

 ing off in either power or members, but one which, on the con- 

 trary, was going on increasing in strength and in power, and 

 producing effects on the philosophic world which would be felt 

 in generations yet unknown, and promote the best interests of 

 humanity. Perhaps what he had said might be considered 



