FOURTH REPORT. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. 



1834. 



X HE British Association resumed its sittings on Monday the 

 8th of September, 1834, in the city of Edinburgh. The Meet- 

 ing was attended by a greater number of members than had as- 

 sembled on any former occasion* j but by means of the arrange- 

 ments adopted by the Secretaries and local Committee, its pro- 

 ceedings were conducted with order and facility. All the 

 public accommodations which this magnificent capital possesses 

 were opened to the Association : the members received their 

 tickets in the gallery of the Royal Institution j the gerieral Com-^ 

 mittee sat in the meeting- room of the Royal Society 3 the Sec- 

 tions were distributed through the class-rooms of the Univer^ 

 sity ; the meetings of the entire body were held in the public 

 Assembly Rooms and in the hall of the College Library. 



GENERAL MEETINGS. 



On Monday evening, at eight o'clock, the first General 

 Meeting was held in the great Assembly Room. The President 

 of the preceding year (the Rev. Professor Sedgwick) addressed 

 some remarks to the meeting on the progress of the Associa- 

 tion ; he congratulated them on the increased strength in which 

 they had assembled, in a place endeared to the feelings of every 

 lover of science, by so many delightful and elevating recollec- 

 tions, especially by the recollection of the great men whom it 

 had fostered or to whom it had given birth. Among the per- 

 sons congregating together from different countries to this great 

 philosophical union it had been his good fortune to encounter 

 on his road thither M. Arago the Perpetual Secretary of the 



* The number of tickets issued was 1298. 

 1834. b 



