28 FOUNDATION AND OBJECTS 



assist in its establishment, and they found there 

 the very men who were qualified to foster and 

 organise it. The Rev. Mr. Vernon Harcourt, whose 

 name cannot be mentioned here without the expres- 

 sion of our admiration and gratitude, had provided 

 laws for its government, and, along with Mr. Phillips, 

 the oldest and most valuable of our office-bearers, 

 had made all those arrangements by which its 

 success was ensured. Headed by Sir Roderick 

 Murchison, one of the very earliest and most active 

 advocates of the Association, there assembled at 

 York about 200 of the friends of science. Dalton, 

 Pritchard, Greenough, Scoresby, William Smith, Sir 

 Thomas Brisbane, Dr. Daubeny, Dr. B. Lloyd, 

 Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, Professor Potter, 

 Lord Fitzwilliam, and Lord Morpeth took an active 

 part in its proceedings ; and so great was the interest 

 which they excited that Dr. Daubeny ventured to 

 invite the Association to hold its second meeting 

 at Oxford. Here it received the valuable co-opera- 

 tion of Dr. Buckland, Professor Powell, and the other 

 distinguished men who adorn that seat of literature 

 and science. Cambridge sent us her constellation 

 of philosophers bright with stars of the first magni- 

 tude Whewell, Peacock, Sedgwick, Airy, Herschel, 

 Babbage, Lubbock, Challis, Kelland, and Hopkins ; 

 while the metropolitan institutions were represented 

 by Colonel Sabine, one of our general secretaries; 

 Mr. Taylor, our treasurer ; Sir Charles Lyell, Colonel 

 Sykes, Mr. Brown, Mr. Faraday, Professors Owen 

 and Wheatstone, Dr. Mantell, Lord Northampton, 

 Lord Wrottesley, Sir Philip Egerton, and Sir Charles 

 Lemon. From Ireland we have received the dis- 

 tinguished aid of Lord Rosse, Lord Enniskillen, 



