SS* IfUelligeuce and Miscellaneous Articles. 



Thermo-magnetism *. From the list of lectures anneNcd we find that 

 the most extensive series has been delivered by Dr. Venables, chiefly 

 on Chemistry and the Philosophy of Botany. Among them we ob- 

 serve a lecture on the use of the blowpipe, its application to practical 

 medicine, and the mode of distinguishing different species of gravel 

 and calculi, and other animal concretions, — a subject which we are 

 aware that Dr. Venables has directed much of his attention to, having 

 not long since detected a case of siliceous calculus. Lectures on Phy- 

 siology, Astronomy, and Mechanics, have been given by Mr. King; 

 on Ornithology, by Mr. T. Cowland ; on Geology, by Mr. Neale ; 

 on the History and Working of English and Foreign Mines, by the 

 Rev. Isaac Taylor, of Ongarj and on Pneumatics, by Mr. Fenton. 



LIV. Ifiielligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE AT OXFORD, JUNE 1832. 

 A GENERAL meeting of the friends and cultivators of science having 

 been held at York in September last year, it was deemed advisable 

 to unite the individuals assembled into an Association, having for its 

 object the union and cooperation of all persons engaged in scientific 

 pursuits, or desirous of encouraging such pursuits, in different parts 

 of the kingdom ; and more particularly for the purpose of holding an- 

 nual meetings successively in the different principal towns throughout 

 England, at which the cultivators of science, from remote districts 

 might have the opportunity of meeting, and by the interchange of 

 observations and communication of ideas the diffusion of science 

 might be promoted, and the ardour of research stimulated and en- 

 couraged. The Report of the Committee, which has been printed and 

 circulated among the members and their friends, points out the lead- 

 ing objects to which it is considered desirable that the attention of the 

 Association should be directed. Sub-committees have been organized 

 for each department ; and one principal feature of the next meeting 

 will be the reading of reports on the present state and recent progress 

 of each branch of science by individuals who have devoted particular 

 attention to that department. It having been suggested at the last 

 year's meeting that Oxford would be an eligible place for the next, it 

 has accordingly been fixed upon, and a local committee there has un- 

 dertaken the preliminary arrangements. They have circulated among 

 the existing members of the Association, as well as other friends of 

 science, whose cooperation is hoped for, a letter, of which the follow- 

 ing copy is subjoined with the view of more widely disseminating its 

 contents : 



Sir, — We beg leave to inform you, that in pursuance of a resolu- 

 tion of the Committee ofthe British Association for the Advancement of 



* Mr. Sturgeon's account of his experiments in TherBio-magnetisni will 

 be found in the Phil, Mag. and Annals, N.S., vol. x. pp. 1, 116. 



Science, 



