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and united in close communion with the greatest minds. The man 

 of obscurity, but of great merit, in the provinces, becomes thus a new 

 being, witli feelings of intense power awakened into living activity, 

 of which activity he was before unconscious ; — he feels for the first 

 time that his science, — the science which he has cherished and pre- 

 served in a narrow circle, is of practical value j that it has obtained 

 the approbation of men to whom he has been always accustomed to look 

 up with veneration and respect; — he forms a resolution to embark in 

 new inquiries ; and the individual who before pined away his hours in 

 listless obscurity is suddenly summoned into a new state of being. 



" The time of publication will not admit of our giving more than this 

 very brief notice of the Meeting of the British Association this month ; 

 but, brief as it is, we cannot conclude it without saying that science 

 has been highly honoured and benefited by it ; that we look forward 

 with feelings of intense pleasure to the next meeting at Cambridge ; 

 — but that wherever it may in future be held, the kind and splendid 

 attentions of the venerable the Vice-Chancellor, of Dr. Buckland, and 

 the members of the University generally, can never be effaced from 

 the recollections of those who were assembled there. 



" It ought not to be omitted, that a Meeting which began with the 

 proudest sanction of Philosophy was dignified at its conclusion by 

 the holy influences of Religion. The sermon of tiie Rev. Professor 

 Mills, preached in the University Church on the Sunday immediately 

 succeeding the Meeting, on Philosophic Humility, was distinguished 

 at once by its lofty and commanding eloquence, and the impressive 

 effect it produced on the great body of learned men assembled there. 

 True religion and sound philosophy must ever go hand in hand ; and 

 it was gratifying to see that the enlightened views of the Divine were 

 received with thankfulness and pleasure by the Philosopher. The ser- 

 mon of the Rev. Professor was immediately requested to be printed." 



G. H. 



Mondaij, June \%th. — Many distinguished cultivators and admirers 

 of science having assembled, in the course of this day meetings of 

 the Committee and of the General Association were held, for the 

 purpose of admitting new members, of which the numbers, both of 

 strangers and of residents, were very considerable. Various arrange- 

 ments were also made for the transaction of the business of the Asso- 

 ciation ; and it was agreed that general meetings should be held 

 each day at one o'clock, and that in the mornings and evenings the 

 members should meet in four sections, each for the consideration of 

 a certain division of science. The following were the arrangements 

 thus made : 



SUB-COMMITTEKS. 



1. Sitb. Committee of Mathematical and Physico- Mathematical Sci- 

 ences {Astronomy, Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Light, 

 Heat, Sound, and Meteorology). 

 Meetings for Committee business in the Clarendon Buildings, 



Room A, from Ten to Eleven. 



Meetings for reading papers, &c. Room A, from Eleven to Twelve. 



