180 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 vuluable reports were lis- 

 tened to with the utmost attention, by a crowded audience, which in- 

 cluded the beauty and fashion of Oxford. 



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. Amq^g 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, 

 he. fee. 



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. 



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. Front'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. 



The reports read at the General Meeting, on Wednesday, were — 

 " On Thermo-Electricity, and on the allied subjects in reference to 

 the discoveries recently made in them," by the Rev. Professor Cum- 

 ming, of Cambridge. " On the present state of Meteorological Sci- 

 ence," by James David Forbes, Esq. F. R. S. L. &; E. ; and " On 

 the Phenomena of Sound," by the Rev. Robert Willis, of Cam- 

 bridge. 



