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N2 OTICE is hereby sates, 
ea m 
ober, Novemb er, and yainiaiy' 
4 voce, oig Nov. an Tite. 7th, pen Jan. 18th. 
t Street, Aug. 13th, 18. 
The Gaxvenees? Chronicie, 
soci N. 
that pe one Meeting 0 oft this 
ring Bag hn sl 
viz.:—on Sept. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1841. 
even n though it be at the risk of inducing an exaggerated | 
1 of, in the 5m 
of th standing aloof fi rom our proceedings, lea 
thea che through the rece: of the press 
it is essential the respectability of Dy 
tion, and for the high ends which it aim 
n que 
further next as if the meeting i in Manchester should 
ec 
sera be held in June, as is at iy" ap 1. With 
gard to pa) fs a ‘or discussio1 < ection is ex- 
peealy stated to comprehend ane rainy, Vegetable 
Peer and ‘the application of Gone a to 
bods 
rig ‘that its members should | never lose sig ght of its 
= nf 
wled bot t that on occasions of mere pop 
ra if Tach should be riecgeas f a a prad rg solitons 
tere 
of compliments 
ne 
1 
cy im that respect. 
A propostrion by Mr. Forsyth, the Earl = a Se 
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pers onli : Miiees ex 
MEETINGS IN ‘THE ENSUING | WEEK. | which, we la ately gave insertion (p. 4 ed a 
OY al 0 aes oe . BM. 
Monday a Be seston Siaseeiads  Masiceallols-" a! hone mer meetings. _ But he the Aepesiation is eee | “We ee a Gaeeth paterse” ra 
Tue British Association for the Advancement of | the bad speeches hak samsetimen tolloc Sige train, it | or “thee iter upon the subject, and we have m ay 
; those combinations which are ope to be "Heatlezted that the former shen resent t 
po he 8 ts ng m — advantage, or of working only baer by which a stranger can avoid becoming a| bad. | one. ‘We have not indeed a single letter in favou 
oot sic ore mischief, to the progress of knowledge, | ,, nILY wihien tht atk In this case, theory does not sash 
according to the manner in which they are conducted. | ‘2° PT f toast-giving, by » is sorry exhibition | with theory, but practice opposes practice—Mr. For 
We have always regarded it nighty lever by | Pyetishin epee tide tng paper oy 7 Pi. 8 | syth, an excellent gardener, peta the use of 
pres sea mind of the ap eens rt of th mm: ret ‘ srs tee oe fo for peaneiesl reasons, and others opposing 
raised to a perception of the e grea That th ax Tae” hi big’ it. wee ie sam me field. ‘The _ greater part of 4 
atv range “letivable age a — to pre son are, with o subject pain giving any reasons f 
1 we think 
ation has, in general, 
a: 
one or two splendid exceptions, but indifferent 
orators, seems to me a subject rather of congratulation 
than of regret: it shows, at least, that they have for pe: 
most par t made scienc e bond Side their e food ani d a 
i) 
f; 
tain parts of 
of prt of it its best friends were likel y, if unarrested, 
n in the eyes of the world. On 
for 
Upeat the eS 9 whatever may have been the case on 
some former occasions, I flatter myself there was not 
Upen 
» UN; 
definite grounds 
Leake glazed pots. The 
their preference en 
latter Sg pr 
pl ecanalag fact t that the roots 
sia direct themselves to the sides of pots, seal gia 
follow proof that the roots 
have a proielectio for the saateril with which they 
d ‘or this simple reaso: oots 
py: a a tendency to spread ping ron the ote, 
se provision of Nature, enable 
to lower the Association 
¢ Plymouth to fix 
contrary, for the sake of “calling attention strongly | accusation preferred in the "Gorman lines which you 
tothe su jes quoted; nor do I oubt that it would 
even at the oe of offending ag of our personal | such tables-dhéte as those which usurped the sete, bs 
friends. ae to which we more particularly | hours of the day during th 
pr were, fst, the public dinners, wi ith the bad ciation which I once attended, will be disposed to Be 
eof givi ng omplim entary 
too bry poy and secondly, ti bl 
hes inconvenience of mix ing up B tany ai a Zoology nied of the occupations of the scientific week 
ublic __in one respect, _ howeve er, matters at Plymo uth might 
in the same section. 
Pp 
dinn ners at Liverpool | and rll epcialy at the 
I mean in the provisions = 
ie evenings, | two of which, from a wish to cater for th 
f the ladies, 
opped 
ee follow the sides of a = just as they do thos 
to extract fines food. When roots are mas a a pot, hee 
outwards is soon sto , and then they neces- 
a brick or a stone in the o ound. 
Then it is agp that the porous sides of an un- 
glazed pot — to communicate freely with - 
of them than they coset tee and t of o 
objections ei Peery fe univ fe a Cound, 
who hay of which notice 
a as neal at 
ur reai ader 
> the 
by 483. 
s the following letter eee : eorrespanent 
he Association, 
entific’ i es entitles his 
n to the greatest attention, 
the British A 
san 
TOY 
_— Te ener highs e working 
opinion 
When 
11 
posed to interest themselves in matters of deep research, 
res exposi- 
So 
roots. But no > plants are ever so plac ced as t to ha 
ties 
kad Committee thought fit to reserve for popular e: 
s of scientific inventions. 
Ss fh ri 
este fu ey taken estimate 
ary 
iE 
sphere loose crocks used for ety ~~ the 
ach the 
ere 
interstices in the soil itself, enable the air t 
sulte: 
i kenrg ‘whi ch thd Tadies at g eed 
some of the profoundest hiv gr ing = soe P. 
lecture oaks to have resc them ti: 
imputatio' ecien 
Wenig ate ori A ted x jeants if 
* be taken as an authority on such 
cites: according to whi 
+ be eing s uch youl: in 
ta kh 
is milk 
PS 
the pots. 
Moreover, no su ch contrivance exists i 
Oners, consider that the Liygsioe niles ps ott bait 
off the super- 
‘This j is no doubt true ; but 
fous water of the oi 
sitheet cst that the evening 
nie 
conve ent opportunity for Sainte before the public 
e mere ecm, together o 
may ea a to ori ntertain differe 
e, which no ad- 
any novel which happen to excite at 
me an unusual share of bgp rine - Sa guen to. de- 
u 
f vapour i die = 
el by pose excape of 
Besides, os rae praca y hat be 
the botto 
| it 
the 2 a 
pponbe the very lumino s and a . 
enc 
eoitind arising from their joint exertions, can 
han to expose the unsoundness of 
sbjetin a and may content oneself. 
imply steers agai 
the intercou urse of 
e in the 
-of-war is conducted, I Soni ‘be di is- | 
posi oie ec rs tot € oe apart of any portion of the | 
see Pu Apia a intiaetieg ° e sake of providjng for the | 
ea of such pe sorte wien presented ; for an ar- 
psa ment of this kind may often force the committee, in 
the lau: 
“would pine 
ar iet 
ee against the existence ou 
yas the British Association, but against its 
rw € young aspi rant, who may on such 
‘sly indulge his ad ais i notoriety, with- 
ving his credentials s nised. 
ould . better, in my humble men, C0 to revert 
lecturer, o 
—— 
out ‘ 
It 
Management, and it then b 
dents have as- 
carefully to Weigh every suggestion that may be offered 
with reference pish its proc cedings, from whatever _ quarter 
esumé of 
in, recedin and for discussions on. some of — ques- 
ig : és d _ Thus 
a 
it originates, a 
5 
1, 
At, pe EI + 
adoption of any changes which may 
reasonable _pioepect of 1 improvement. 
29 h f the Pei but which a late has 
origina se! eme to) a i failed, 3 pea 
wt ee 
is - 
gcc 
the kh 
yet they are y much ny i 
ve have hoodie it right to to place 
the subject thus 
f slg Chemists, Bote 
Pe ee oe 
order that 
oe our gc tg 
f the 
he ie ey what = 
nists. 
a 
re frequent communi- 
S, than pecetick oe ai 
cue mek 
piblic in which its failings have been pokey to the 
eatio! 
i) which their attention had been principally directed, 
In 
the polis then, I admit the desirableness of dis- 
ebanscthig. as 
forward in the capacity of lecturers.—I beg to subscribe | 
myself, 4n Old Member of the British Association. 
as the medical s wisi of late has be t Ae 
= = ts ees Frege of ear batae the for the We shall only presume to adi one pin sank signed. 
e to eir business in t er 
sake of attending ai meeting , our own to those con ontained 4 
@ Special Medical Asocinton “framed in great - . t savs that if 2 sepa- 
i z, whe . the same ody oe tbe worth consider- | rate in oe Pte ‘or Botany, fe as lation will 
ogy, bt Hie Boece not operate to the advantage of the cultivators of that 
caer atte! 
sey portion | of the section edi: 
y th 
Seneral, not be “of a strictly Bt perma ees character, bat 
ce rather d e 
