186 Miscellanies. 
my.” He was followed by the Rev. Professor Whewell, of Cam- 
bridge, who read a report furnished by J. W. Lubbock, Esq. Vice- 
President of the Royal Society, ‘on the means of calculating the 
time and height of high water.” These valuable reports were. lis: 
tened to with the utmost attention, by a crowded andience, which in- 
cluded the beauty-and fashion of Oxford. - A 
The members of the Association resident in Oxford, afterwards 
gave a sumptuous entertainment to their fellow members in the great 
Hall of New College. Two hundred and fifty-three noblemen and 
gentlemen sat down to dinner on this occasion. Dr. Buckland was 
in the chair, supported on his right hand by Lord Milton, and on his 
left by the Vice-Chancellor of the University. Among the company 
present, we noticed the Marquis of Northampton, Lord Selkirk, 
Lord Morpeth, Lord Sandon, Viscount Cole, Sir Thomas Acland, 
Sir Thomas Brisbane, Sir David Brewster, Mr. Davies Gilbert, Pro- 
fessor Hamilton of Dublin, the Rev. A. Sedgwick of Cambridge, 
&e. &c. siti 
A variety of appropriate toasts and speeches enlivened ‘this social 
meeting. On the following morning the whole Association break- 
fasted, by invitation, with the Vice-Chancellor, the head of Exeter 
College. The hall of this College being insufficient to accommo- 
date the numerous party assembled, tables were laid in the gardens. 
At ten o’clock the Association adjourned to the Clarendon, where; 
separating into their respective sections, scientific business was resum- 
ed, as on the preceding day. om 
Many interesting papers upon different branches of science were 
read at the sectional meetings on this and the subsequent days; — 
which want of space prevents us from enumerating, . We must make — 
an exception, however, in favor of one paper, bearing more directly 
than others upon medical science,—namely, Dr. Prout’s important 
** Observations on Atmospheric Air ;” in the course of which, this 
distinguished philosopher pointed out, that, in London, the air under- 
- Went a remarkable and sudden increase in its specific gravity, at the 
precise period when cholera first appeared there. Sica: 
~The reports read at the General Meeting, on Wednesday, were— 
‘ On Thermo-Electricity, and on the allied subjects in reference 10 
_the discoveries recently made in them,” by the Rev. Professor Cum 
ii of Cambridge. - On the present state of Meteorological Sei- 
ence,” by James David Forbes, Esq. F. R. S. L. & E. ; and “On 
ti oe of Sound,” by the Rev. Robert Willis, of Cam- 
