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Dr. Pearson, Professor Powell, Mr. Potter, Professor Rigaud, Mr. 

 Rothman, Captain Smyth, Rev. R. Willis, Rev. W. Walker, Rev. W. 

 Whewell. 



II. Chemistry, Mineralogy, &c. — Mr. Dalton, Dr. Daubeny, Mr. 

 Children, Professor dimming, Mr. Faraday, Mr. Johnston, Dr. Prout, 

 Dr. Turner, Rev. W. V. Harcourt, Mr. Harris, Professor Ritchie, 

 Mr. Scoresby, Dr. Gregory, Mr. Kcinig, Mr. Brooke, Professor Miller, 

 Marquis of Northampton, Mr. Guiilemard. 



III. Geology and Geography. — Rev. W. Buckland, D.D., Rev. W. 

 Conybeare, Rev. A. Sedgwick, R. I. Murchison, Esq., G. B. Green- 

 ough, Esq., W. H. Fitton, M.D., Rev. W. V. Harcourt, The Mar- 

 quis of Northampton, Major-General Straton, Viscount Cole, Sir Phi- 

 lip Egerton, Bart., William Smith, Esq., Dr. Edward Turner, Henry 

 Witham, Esq., Thomas England, Esq., Sir C. Lemon, Bart, W. Hut- 

 ton, Esq., W. Clift, Esq., John Taylor, Esq., Rev. J. Yate.s, G. Man- 

 tell, Esq., Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., J. Came, Esq. 



IV. Natural History. — Mr. R. Brown, Dr. Daubeny, Professor 

 Henslow, Dr. Williams, Mr. Richard Taylor, Mr. Jenyns, Mr. Gar- 

 nons, Mr. P. Duncan, Mr. Yarrell, Mr. Vigors, Mr. Sabine, Dr. 

 Prichard, Mr. Clift, Dr. Kidd, Dr. Knox, Mr. Burchell. 



The authorities of the University granted to the Association the use 

 of the Sheldonian Theatre for the General Meetings, and of the rooms 

 in the Clarendon Buildings for the Sectional Committees. 



June 19. The Sectional Committees met at Ten o'clock, and ap- 

 pointed the following gentlemen to be their Presidents and Secreta- 

 ries respectively. 



Physics, &c. — President, Mr. Davies Gilbert ; Secretary, Rev, 

 H. Coddington. 



Chemistry, &c. — President, Mr. John Dalton ; Secretary, Mr. 

 Johnston. 



Geology and Geography,— President, Mr. Murchison ; Secretary, 

 Mr. J. Taylor. 



Natural History. — President, Mr. P. Duncan ; Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Henslow. 



At one o'clock the Association met in the Theatre : Viscount Mil- 

 ton (the President of the Association at the former Meeting, and 

 President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society,) took the chair, and 

 opened the business of the Meeting, proposing that Dr. Buckland, 

 (the President Elect for the present Meeting,) should take the chair 

 as President. 



Professor Airy then read his Report on the State and Progress of 

 Physical and Practical Astronomy. 



The Rev. W. Whewell next stated, in the absence of the author, 

 the substance of Mr. Lubbock's Report on the Present State of our 

 Knowledge respecting the Tides, which was illustrated by the exhi- 

 bition of a map of the world, on which were drawn the Cotidal Lines, 

 or lines which pass through all the points at which it is supposed to 

 be high water at the same moment. 



At five a dinner was given to the Association, in the Hall of New 

 College, by those members of it who are resident in Oxford:— in 



