76 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



Broderip, W. J., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Brodie, Sir B. Bart., F.R.S., P.R.C.S. 

 Brown, R., F.R.S., V.P.L.S. 

 Buckland, Prof., D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Children, J. G., V.P.R.S., F.S.A. 

 Christie, S. H., Sec. R.S. 

 Colby, Col. R.E..F.R.S.,Dir.Trig.Surv. 

 Cole, Viscount, M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 DanieU, Prof.,F.R.S. 

 DeMorgan, A., Prof., Sec. R. A.S. 

 Egerton,SirP.,Bart.,M.P.,F.R.S.,F.G.S. 

 Faraday, Prof., D.C.L.,F.R.S. 

 Fitton, W. H., M.D.,F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 

 Gompertz, B., F.R.S., P.M.S. 

 GreenouRh, G. B., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Gilbert, Davies, V.P.R.S., F.R. A.S. 

 Halford, .Sir H., Bart., F.R.S., P.H.C.P. 

 Hamilton, W., F.R.S., P.R.Geogr.Soc. 

 Holland, H., M.D., F.R.S. 



Jones, Rev, R., Prof. King's Coll. Lend. 

 Konig, C, K.H., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Lemon, Sir C, Bart.. M.P., F.R.S. 

 Lubbock, J. W., F.R.S., F.R. A.S. 

 Lyell, C, F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 

 Macl^ay, W. S., F.L.S. 

 Murchison, R. I., F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 

 Peacock, Prof., F.R.S., F.R.A.S. 

 Powell, Prof., F.R.S. 

 Rennie, G., F.R.S., F.G.S." 

 Rigaud, Prof., V.P.R.S. 

 Roget, P. M., M.D., Sec. R.S.,F.R.A.S. 

 Sedgwick, Prof., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Smith, Joseph, F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Smyth, Capt., R.N.,K.S.F.,For.Sec.R.S. 

 Somerville, W., M.O., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Taylor, John, F.R.S., Treas. G.S. 

 Walker. J., F.R.S., P. Civ. Eng. 

 Whewell, Rev. W., F.R.S., P.G.S. 



The Herschel Dinner took place accordingly on Friday the 15th 

 instant, when upwards of four hundred noblemen and gentlemen 

 were assembled, including a large proportion of the most eminent 

 cultivators of science, in all its departments, and of literature and the 

 fine arts, from all parts of the kingdom. Their distinguished guest 

 was seated on the right of the President, who was supported on his 

 left by the Marquess of Lansdowne and Earl Fitzwilliam. After 

 dinner His Royal Highness addressed the company on the occasion 

 of the festival, and presented Sir John Herschel with the vase, which 

 had been placed on the table by Mr. Murchison, and in which were 

 deposited several sheets of paper containing the autograph signatures 

 of the persons present. Sir John Herschel returned thanks in a most 

 interesting address delivered with deep feeling and replete with ap- 

 propriate reflections. Speeches were afterwards made by Professor 

 Sedgwick, Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, Admiral C.Adam, the Marquess 

 of Lansdowne, Professor Rigaud, the Earl of Burlington, Sir Wil- 

 liam R. Hamilton, the Rev. W. Whewell, P.G.S. , the Marquess of 

 Northampton, the Earl Fitzwilliam, and R. I. Murchison, Esq., Hon. 

 Sec. The last speaker in returning thanks for the stewards, assigned 

 as the reason why he, a geologist, had taken so active a share in the 

 arrangements for this festival, that the distinguished astronomer, in 

 honour of whom it was held, himself claimed the character of a 

 geologist ; and he concluded by saying : " May it ever be the pride 

 of our hearts to repeat, ' I was one of those who welcomed Herschel 

 to his native land.' " 



Of the Noblemen included in the list of Stewards His Grace 

 the Duke of Northumberland only was absent, and his absence we 

 regret to learn was occasioned by a severe attack of illness. We have, 

 however, great pleasure in adding, that the cost of reducing Sir 

 John Herschel's observations in the Southern Hemisphere will be 

 defrayed by the princely munificence of this nobleman. 



The Vase is a splendid copy of the Warwick Vase, in silver, 

 placed upon a pedestal of black marble, on each side of which will 

 appear an inscription in silver relief. That proposed for the prin- 

 cipal place, from the pen of H. Gaily Knight, Esq., M.P., is as fol- 

 lows: 



" Herschel ^'wwiori ab Afris reduci 

 Ccelis australibus exploratis." 



