416 - Frcceedings of the British Assochitwn. 



The great object was to render this department of knowledge 

 accessible to all persons, and particularly to young persons. * 



Friday, \ Uh August. — 6. Mr Babbage read an abstract of the 

 ordnance survey of the city of Londonderry and parish of Tem- 

 plemore. — It was then resolved that the Statistical Section of the 

 British Association should present their thanks to the Lord 

 Lieutenant of Ireland, for the presentation to that Section of a 

 copy of the Survey of the City of Londonderry and parish 

 of Templemore ; and in stating their admiration of the extensive 

 and valuable statistical details contained in it, they beg to ex- 

 press their hope, that the general survey may be completed in 

 the same spirit in which it has been commenced. — Dr Jones of 

 Waterford read an essay on the statistics of lunacy. — Two 

 papers read, which were presented by Mr Fox, on the punish- 

 ment of death in Russia, Norway, Belgium, and Brunswick, and 

 the Section adjourned. 



Evening Meetings in the Rotundo, &c. 



Monday, — A general meeting of the Association was held in 



the Rotundo on Monday evening. More thon 2000 persons 



were present. The meeting was opened by the President of 



the former year, General Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane, 



who addressed this splendid and interesting assemblage in the 



following terms : — 



My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — We are now assembled in the 

 capital of Ireland, for the purpose of holding the Fifth Anniversary Meet- 

 ing- of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. We all 

 must admire the excellent arrangements which have been made for our 

 reception, and the unbounded liberality by which they are characterized. 

 It is impossible to anticipate the vast advantage likely to result to science 

 from such meetings, where there is such a mighty combination of talent, 

 as is to be found embodied amongst the members of the Association, 

 which may be said comprehends every department of human knowledge, 

 whose pure and only object is the advancement of science, and the im- 

 provement of the condition of man. When you did me the honour to 

 elect me to the distinguished office of President, I accepted it with diffi- 

 dence. I have used my best, though humble, exertions to fill the situa- 

 tion with propriety, and I shall resign it with much satisfaction into the 

 far abler hands of your highly gifted and enlightened countryman, the 



* Within the last few months, a number of schoolmasters in London, Edin- 

 burgh, and Dublin, have stated their intention of introducing the plan pro- 

 posed by Dr lleid, and some have already announced it in their advertise- 

 ments — B. H. 



