PKOCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. XXvni 



fessoi' Bavlow, was given, in the absence of the Author, by the 

 -Rev. W. Whewell. 



In the evening, Mr. Whewell delivered a Lecture in the 

 Senate-house, on the manner in which observations of the Tide 

 may be usefully made to serve as a groundwork for general 

 views ; either by observing the time of high water at different 

 places on the same day, in order to determine the motion of 

 the summit of the tide-wave ; or by continuing the observations 

 for a considerable time, and comparing them with the moon's 

 transit to obtain the semi-menstrual inequality. He observed, 

 that it appears from Mr. Lubbock's recent researches on the 

 subject, that the tides of Portsmouth and Brest agree very 

 closely in the law of this inequality, and that the tides of Ply- 

 mouth and London also agree ; but that there is an anomaly 

 which cannot at present be explained in the comparison of Brest 

 with Plymouth. Professor Parish explained to the Meeting 

 the advantages which he conceived would be derived from ap- 

 plying the power of steam to carriages on undulating roads in 

 preference to level rail-ways. 



On Friday, at one p.m., the Chairmen of the Sections having 

 read the minutes of their proceedings, the Rev. J. Challis made 

 a Report on the progress of the Theory of Fluids. The Pre- 

 sident stated the appropriation * to certain scientific objects of 

 a portion of the funds of the Association to the amount of 

 600/. Mr. Babbage, at the President's request, explained his 

 views respecting the advantages which wovild accrue to science 

 from such a collection of numerical facts as he had formerly 

 recommended under the title of " Constants of Nature and 

 Art." The President announced, that it had been resolved 

 by the General Committee, that the Meeting of 1834 should 

 take place at Edinburgh in the early part of the month of Sep- 

 tember ; he read the names of the Officers and Members of the 

 Council appointed for the ensuing year. 



The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the Vice- 

 Chancellor and the other authorities of the University, to the 

 retiring Officers and Members of the Council, to the President, 

 the Secretaries for Cambridge, the Local Committee of Manage- 

 ment, and the General Secretary. 



The President, in his concluding Address to the Meeting, 

 explained an irregularity which had occurred in the formation 

 of a new Section. In addition to the five Sections into which 

 the Meeting had been divided by the authority of the General 



* For a particular account of these appropriations, see p. xxxvi. 



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