XXvi FOURTH REPORT — 1834. 



The President, in closing the meeting, said, that it had been 

 his good fortune to attend all the former meetings of the Asso- 

 ciation at York, Oxford, and Cambridge, and he was rejoiced to 

 think that Scotland had not fallen short in the reception which 

 it had given them on the present occasion ; he had himself shared 

 in the benefit of those hospitable feelings with which the Associ- 

 ation had been welcomed, having had the honour that day of 

 receiving with several distinguished individuals the freedom of 

 the City of Edinburgh*. "The eminent foreigners," he added, 

 " who have attended the meeting have all expressed their desire 

 to assist in promoting the objects of the Association, and I have 

 been requested by my illustrious friend M. Arago, whom I have 

 had the happiness of knowing for nineteen years, to assure them 

 of his own willingness and that of the Institute of France to co- 

 operate with them in every thing in which mutual assistance 

 might be serviceable to the advancement of science." -He then 

 adjourned the meeting to the 10th of August, 1835, at Dublin. 



GENERAL COMMITTEE. 



The General Committee met in the apartments of the Royal 

 Society on Monday the Sth of September, and came to the fol- 

 lowing Resolutions : 



Hides. — That in Rule 2, respecting privileges of admission, 

 for the words ' Fellows and Members of Royal and Chartered 

 Societies', be substituted the words ' Fellows and Members of 

 Chartered Literary and Philosophical Societies publishing Trans- 

 actions'. 



That grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the 

 fimds of the Association shall expire at the meeting following 

 that at which they were granted, unless they shall have been 

 acted upon, or a continuation of them ordered by the General 

 Committee. 



Committee of Recommendatio7is. — That Mr. W, Baily, Sir 

 D. Brewster, Dr. Brown, Rev. Dr. Buckland, Rev. G. Peacock, 

 Professor Forbes, Professor Hamilton, Professor Roget, Dr. 

 Turner, Rev. W, Whewell, Dr. Richardson, and the Rev. W. 

 V. Harcourt be a Committee to report in what manner the funds 

 of the Society may be best appropriated to the promotion of sci- 



• At an extraordinary meeting of the Town Council, held on Saturday, the 

 13th of September, diplomas of the freedom of the City of Edinburgh were pre- 

 sented by the Lord Provost to the following Members of the Association : Sir 

 Thomas Brisbane, M, Arago, Professor Moll, Dr. Dalton, and Dr. Brown. 



