THIRD REPORT. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. 



1833. 



The third Meeting of the British Association commenced its 

 sittings at Cambridge on Monday, the 24th of June, 1833. It 

 was attended by more than nine hundred Members, and was 

 honoured with the presence of several foreign philosophers. 

 The extent of accommodation provided by the University, and 

 by the societies of which it consists, corresponded with the 

 magnitude of the Meeting. The public schools, with two 

 adjoining halls, were allotted to the use of the Sections and 

 Committees, and the Senate-house was appropriated to the 

 reception of the general assemblies ; a large proportion of the 

 visitors were lodged within the walls of the Colleges, and the 

 great halls of the two principal foundations were opened in 

 hospitality to a concourse of guests collected from all parts by 

 a common interest in scientific pursuits. 



GENERAL MEETING. 



On Monday evening, at eight o'clock, the Members assem- 

 bled in the Senate-house : and a public discussion took place 

 on the phenomena and theory of the Aurora Borealis. 



On Tuesday, at 1 p. m. a General Meeting was held in 

 the Senate-house ; the President of the preceding year, (the 

 Rev. Dr. Buckland,) resigned his office. In the course of 

 his speech*, he congratulated the Meeting on the proof af- 

 forded by the Report recently published, that the Association 

 was pursuing a course of peculiar utility to science, whilst at the 



* A fuller account of the speeches delivered at the Meeting will be found 

 annexed to the lithographed signatures, &c., published at Cambridge. 



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