300 Scientific Intelligence. 
Mr. Pulcher could not then be induced to part with the mass 
but I finally secured a few grains in weight, from the bur left 
by the chisel, from which Mr. F. W. Taylor of the Smithsonian 
Institution made a preliminary analysis with the following 
result: ‘ 
Weight of specimen submitted to analysis 24 grains. 
Analysis. 
We econ Co ye S| Oa b48 
TRORO ea eS cs 8°815 
Cébaltccrr rk 0°396 
Insoluble residue 2.0.2.2... 07118 
The fragment was somewhat oxidized which accounts in part 
for the shortage. The entire specimen is now in the Smith- 
sonian Institution for examination and analysis. 
U.S. N. Observatory, August 26, 1884. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
I. ScreNnTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS. 
1. The British Association.—The fifty-fourth meeting of the 
British Association, which opened in Montreal on the 27th of 
largely increased the number in attendance. Moreover, the num 
ber of persons who formally joined the Association at Montreal, 
either as members or as associates, was very large, having been 
stated as between 1400 and 1500. : 
In the next place, the addresses delivered were of exceptional 
excellence. After a few word welcome from the Governor: 
neral, Lord Lansdowne— in which he gracefully mentioned 
that the honor of knighthood had been conferred by the Quee? 
upon Principal Dawson—Sir Wm. Thomson, acting for Professor 
Cayley, the President, introduced the incoming President, Lord 
Raylei The subject of his address was “Recent progress ! 
physics.” Two quotations may be from the concluding 
ortion: “In speaking unfavorably of superfluous hypothes!s; 
e says, “let me not be misunderstoo cience is nothing w!t 
out generalizations. Detached and ill-assorted facts are on 
raw material, and in the absence of a theoretical solvent, have but 
little nutritive value. At the present time and in some depart- 
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