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taken for the preparation of a catalogue of papers occurring in the Transactions of 

 the Scientific Societies and in Scienlific Journals, were noted by him, and com- 

 mended to the attention of the General Committee. The still more important 

 subject of guiding the influence of the British Government and of Parliament, for 

 improving the position of British Science, and advancing the just interests and 

 claims of its students, next occupied his attention. The establishment of a 

 Scientific Board for the control and expenditure of the public funds devoted to 

 science ; and the provision of a central National Building in the British Metropolis, 

 for the meetings and other requirements of the principal Scientific Societies 

 ■were specially noted by the President, as objects new aimed at, and towards the 

 accomplishment of which Her Majesty's Government have evinced a gratifying 

 readiness to render every aid consistent -with the other claims, -which war and 

 rebellion have recently made so preeminent. 



Finally, Dr. Lloyd congratulated the Association on the extension of their field 

 of labours, by the enlargement of the scope of the statistical section so as to 

 embrace economic science in all its relations ; and concluded in these words : " I 

 am conscious that the sketch of the recent progress of the Physical Sciences, 

 which I have endeavoui ed to present, is but a meagre and imperfect summary of 

 what has been accomplished ; but it is enough, at al! events, to prove that science 

 is not on the decline, and that its cultivators have not been negligent in their high 

 calling. I now beg in the name of the local members of this body, to welcome 

 you warmly to this city ; and I pray that your labours here may redound to the 

 glory of God, and to the welfare and happiness of your fellow-men." 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 Among the features of the American Scientific Congress, in the Capitol at 

 Albany, last year, which were felt alike by Americans and Strangers as giving a 

 novel interest to that meeting, was the Canadian deputation sent to invite the 

 representatives of the Science of the United States to step beyond their political 

 bounds, and accept the hospitality of Montreal. Other, and older claims were at 

 the same time advanced. Baltimore was especially urgent, and refused to hear of 

 delay ; but a spirit of liberal cosmopolitanism prevailed, and the invitation was 

 accepted, which has this year enabled us to witness the honored veterans of Ameri- 

 can Science welcomed with no stinted cordiality to the chief city of the Canadas, 

 the commercial metropolis of British America. The duties which thereby devolved 

 on the citizens of Montreal, and on the Province at large, were neither few nor 

 trivial ; and to most of these duties past experience could lend us little aid. Never- 

 theless, what hearty earnestness and cordial good-will could accomplish was done; 

 and though the occasion may not have passed off without some of those little jeal- 

 ousies and slights to which all such large and miscellaneous congresses are every, 

 where liable, we have reason to believe that the general impression remaining 

 on the minds of those who took a part in the meeting, is one of unalloyed pleas- 

 ure ; while the conviction has been frankly expressed by those longest and most 

 intimately conversant with the proceedings of the American Association, that the 

 success of the meeting was as gratifying to the assembled representatives of 

 American Science, as it was creditable to the citizens of Montreal, 



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