192 Notice of the Italian Scientific Association. 
did the honours, and nearly one thousand persons sat down to dinner in 
the most perfect order. On the last day of the meeting a general assembly 
of the Italian members (foreigners not being allowed to vote) took place 
to fix the place of assembling in 1843, in consequence of the Ex-Empress 
Maria Louisa, who now governs Parma, having refused her sanction to 
the Association going to Parma, as previously agreed upon. Lucca was 
selected, and the Duke of that principality has given his consent. In 
1842 the Association will assemble at Padua, where I think it will meet 
a kind and hospitable reception, although we cannot expect to be treated 
as we have been here ; but Padua, nevertheless, offers many facilities in its 
extensive university, and its enyirons have many points of attraction for 
the geologist in the Euganean hills, and the tertiary deposits of the not 
far distant districts of Verona and Vicenza, whilst I believe that the Aus- 
trian authorities, far from setting their face against the Association, as 
those of Rome and Naples have done, will do every thing to encourage 
it. A medal had been ordered to be struck to commemorate the Flo- 
rentine meeting, a copy of which was given at its close to each of its 
members, in silver to the Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries, 
and in bronze to the other members. In addition to this, the Grand Duke 
in his liberality had printed a new and enlarged edition of the acts of the 
Academia del Cimento, and an illustrated description of the Tribune of 
Galileo, of both of which copies were presented to all members not Flo- 
rentine, on going for their passports, and have been given since to many 
of the latter. An account of the proceedings of each day, with a list of 
new members, was printed every morning and sent round to all the scien- 
zati, and in a few weeks a large volume will be published containing the 
detailed proceedings of the Association. From France we had M. de 
Blainville for a few days ; from Belgium the king sent a formal mission 
in the person of Professor Morren of Liege, the botanist ; and from Ger- 
many there were the venerable and excellent botanist Link of Berlin, Char- 
pentier, the geologist of the Pyrenees, and of the modern glacier theory, 
Professor Mahlmann of Berlin, Mittermayer of Heidelberg, and others. We 
had also a few Americans, Greeks, and Spaniards, and a Spanish Ameri- 
can medical man. As to Italians, the number would have been greater 
had not the Roman and Neapolitan governments opposed the coming of 
their subjects. Several, however, eluded the prohibition, and amongst 
others Tenore the Neapolitan botanist ; as to Austria and Sardinia, every 
facility and encouragement were afforded to those who wished to be pre- 
sent on the occasion. The result of the Florentine meeting has been to 
bring Italians together after a lapse of some centuries, and to give an im- 
pulse to science throughout the peninsula, which, I am persuaded, will 
be attended by very beneficial results. We know what have been the 
good effects of such ambulatory meetings in Germany and Switzerland 
within the present century ; and in Italy, placed as its inhabitants are, 
under different governments, whilst speaking the same language, I think 
we are justified in anticipating equally profitable consequences, consider- 
