I 3^ Edward Livingston Yonmans. 



rected, and wandered and wandered till I found it. I then 

 went the whole length of it and couldn't find the house. 

 I then counted the numbers, and there was not a 34 in it. 

 I think I was mad at the town. There was Christ's Col- 

 lege and there was Christ's Lane, but no place to enter. 

 So I attacked every person I met on the general subject of 

 the theo-topography of Cambridge. At length somebody 

 asked if it might not be "Jesus" Lane that I wanted. I 

 told him " Certainly." Then said he, " You will find it near 

 Jesus College, at the other end of the town." So I found it, 

 and a quite comfortable place it is. Opposite is a low stone 

 building used as a store, and over the door the name of 

 the keeper G. Death. 



The first meeting was last night, at eight. We got in 

 at 7.30, and went up near the platform. It is a fine lecture 

 room in appearance and decoration, but without the slight- 

 est ventilation. Only those were admitted who had tickets, 

 but it was full nine hundred or a thousand. The hall was 

 early crowded, and such a hum and bustle of joyous recog- 

 nition I never before witnessed. The English on such an 

 occasion are far more hearty and social than the Americans. 

 Everybody was busy shaking hands and chatting with every- 

 body, and at the same time watching and inquiring who 

 were present. The president-elect was Rev. Robert Willis, 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge, and he gave 

 as an opening address of an hour and a half the History of 

 the Association. It appeared in full in next morning's Times. 

 Prof. Owen moved a vote of thanks with a little speech, 

 the first part of which was glib, but the last part fizzled 

 amazingly. The Dean of Ely, a high ecclesiastical func- 

 tionary, seconded the motion, with a little speech which, 

 although good, tapered to a vanishing point like the other. 

 A large, florid, very fine-looking man, with the port and 

 semblance of old Ike Rowland, and something of the 

 aspect of a Methodist parson, appeared before us. He 



