68 Meetings of the Scientific Association of Great Britain. 
years before it is necessary to use them, which is indispensable espe- 
cially for long voyages. ‘The royal astronomical society powerfully 
seconds by its encouragement, and by the valuable papers which it 
publishes, the impetus which astronomy is now receiving in England. 
I have also paid another visit to Mr. South’s observatory where I 
received, on my first tour, so kind a reception ; a reception which was 
renewed to me by the able observer, who has built this observatory 
at his own expense. The observatory has been enriched, since 1827, 
by Mr. Cauchoix’s large telescope, and Mr. South has spared no 
pains to give it a proper position and a parallactic support. Unfor- 
tunately, the construction of the support, entrusted to very skilful 
hands, has not succeeded so well as other works of the same artists. 
Perhaps additional improvements may give more stabjlity to it, but m 
its present state it would be impossible to keep a star under the 
threads, or to take a micrometric measurement, the path of the star 
being too undulating to allow of accurate results. From the mathe- 
matical und physical correspondence, Vol. 8, No. 1. 
Part I].—Merrine or tue Britisn AssoctaTion at Eptn- 
BURGH, September 8, 1834. 
President, Sir Tuomas M. Briszane, Bart. &c. &c. 
Vice Presidents, Sir Davin Brewster, and Rev. J. Ropinson, 
D. D. Astron. Roy. at Armagh. : 
Genl. Sec.—Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, F.R. S. &c. 
Treasurer,—Joun Tavtor, Esq. F. R. 8. &c. 
Asst. Sec.—Pror. Puruirs. 
Local Sec.—Joun Ropinson, Esq. Sec. R. S. E. and Pror. 
Forzes. , 
" INTRODUCTORY MEETING. ; 
Monday, September 8.—The meeting was opened in the St. 
George’s Street Assembly Rooms, at 8 o’clock, P. M., by an elo- 
quent address from Prof. Sedgwick, the President of the meeting of 
the preceding year. He adverted to the origin of the association, to 
its various meetings, first at York, next at Oxford, next at Cam- 
bridge, and now at Edinburgh ; to the decided manifestations of pub- 
lic favor; to the great numbers of illustrious men whom the Scot- 
tish capital had produced ; to the eminent individuals brought togeth- 
er by this association; to M. Arago, perpetual secretary of the 
French Institute, and Dr. Vlastos of Greece, now present; to the 
