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ofMarischal College, — and the Horticultural Exhibition, King's 

 College. Marischal College, Free Church College, Advocates' Hall, 

 Medico-Chirurgical Society's Library and Hall, and the various 

 prisons, reformatories, and asylums were likewise opened, — as 

 were also most of the great manufactories. The company from a 

 distance was large and brilliant ; the papers promised were of scien- 

 tific importance. Nothing was wanting to make the Meeting at 

 Aberdeen pleasant and memorable. 



Before the opening of the doors of the Music Hall the number 

 of tickets issued to the public amounted to more than 2,500. 



GENERAL COMMITTEE. 



The General Committee held their first meeting in the Library 

 ofMarischal College. Professor Owen stated that the number of 

 Associates already admitted amounted to 2,000; and the total 

 number of Members and Associates altogether was nearly as much 

 as the Music Hall could accommodate. He therefore proposed 

 that the Committee should limit the admission of Associates. 

 There was no limit to the admission of Members. The proposal 

 was adopted, as we have already said. 



The minutes of the last two Meetings were read and approved 

 of — detailing the proceedings of the Committee as to the choice 

 of Aberdeen for the present Meeting. 



Professor Phillips read the Report of the Council, which chiefly 

 pertained to proposals for more extended meteorological and 

 magnetical observations and to the work of the Kew Observatory 

 for the past year. 



GENERAL MEETING. 



The General Meeting was held, in the evening, at the Music 

 Hall. — Prof. Owen on rising to hand over his Presidency to H. 

 R. H. the Prince Consort, said : — Gentlemen of the British Asso- 

 ciation, — In rising to perform the brief concluding duty of my 

 office, I may congratulate you on the present sound condition of 

 the Association, and am happy to say that I leave its affairs in a 

 more prosperous state than I found them. Yet this prosperity has 

 for some years been progressive, more especially as regards the 

 direct scientific aims of the Association. It was exemplified last 

 year, by the presence of almost every surviving Founder, with 

 large additions of working scientific Members, at our Meeting at 

 Leeds ; it is clearly manifested by the present distinguished as- 

 semblage, including many of our most eminent Continental and 



