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the evening the Association adjourned to the Clarendon Rooms, 

 where Sectional Meetings were held. Mr. Hemming made before the 

 Sectional Committee on Chemistry, some experiments, e.xhibiting the 

 action and use of his safety-lube for the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, no- 

 ticed among our Miscellaneous Articles in the next page. 



June 20. — This morning begun with a public breakfast, given by 

 the Vice-Chancellor, in Exeter College hall, and gardens, to all the 

 Members of the Association. At the General Meeting immediately 

 following, the Chairman of each Sectional Committee read the Re- 

 port of the proceedings of the preceding day in his respective depart- 

 ment. At the conclusion of the Report of the Geological Section, 

 the President requested permission of the assembly to allow the 

 WoUaston Gold Medal, — awarded last year by the Council of the 

 Geological Society to Mr. W. Smith, but which had not then been 

 executed, — to be presented to that gentleman in the presence of the 

 members of the Association, This was accordingly done by Mr. 

 MurchLson, who thus addressed Mr. Smith : " To you, William 

 Smith, who have, by the universal voice of Geologists, been pro- 

 nounced the Father of English Geolog}% I have the sincerest plea- 

 sure, in the name and on the behalf of the Geological Society, in 

 presenting this Medal." 



Mr. Smith briefly returned thanks for the honour tlius conferred 

 upon him. 



Professor Gumming then read his Report on the progress of Ther- 

 mo-electricity. 



Mr. Forbes read his Report on the present condition of our know- 

 ledge in Meteorology. 



The Rev. R. Willis gave a verbal account of the present state of 

 the Philosophy of Sound, illustrated by diagrams and experiments. 



In the evening two lectures were given in the Music room ; one, 

 by Dr. Ritchie, on Magneto-Electricity; the other, by Dr. Turner, on 

 certain points of Chemical Science. 



June 21 — This morning the Vice-Chancellor of the University 

 and the Heads of Colleges entered the Theatre in procession ; and the 

 Vice-Chancellor opened the business of the Convocation in the usual 

 academical form. Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P., V.P.R.S., &c. took his 

 seat for the first time as Doctor of Civil Law, a distinction which has 

 recently been conferred upon him by diploma. The* Professor of 

 Civil Law (Dr. Phlllimore) then presented to the Convocation the 

 four men of science whom it was proposed to admit on this occasion 

 to the degr^-e of Doctor of Civil Law, — viz. Sir David Brewster ; 

 R. Brown, Esq., V.P.L.S., &c. ; John Dalton, Esq., F.R.S. ; and 

 Michael Faraday, Esq., F.R.S., <&c. — in an elegant and discriminative 

 Latin speech, staling what the University considered their respective 

 claims to distinction. 



The following members of tlie Universities of Cambridge and Dub- 

 lin were then admitted ad "undem of the University of Oxford; — 

 John Head Corrie, M.D., of Gonville ;md Cains College; Thoma.s 

 Smith Turnbull, M.A., Fellow of (ionville and Caius College ; John 

 Blackburn, M.A., St. John's College ; Rev. Robert Willis, Fillow of. 

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