BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCUNCE. 485 
Our kind friend and contemporary of 
the Oriental Observer, Mr. Rushton, has 
been so fortunate as to receive the la- 
test number of the Athenceum j the entire 
columns of which have been devoted to 
the report of the proceedings of the 
British association. No expense has 
been spared to make it full and sa- 
tisfactory. We shall continue to furnish 
cur readers with the result of the even- 
ing meeting so that it shall not inter- 
fere with the regular number of our 
Review. We are sure that our readers 
will share in our sense of obligation to 
Mr. Rushton for this spirit and zeal he 
has evinced in the cause of science by 
enabling us to diffuse expeditiously this 
important and highly interesting intel- 
ligence. 
SIXTH MEETING OF THE BRI- 
TISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
[From our own Correspondents.^ 
SATURDAY’ AUG. 2,0. 
At the Meeting of the General Com- 
mittee, a letter was read from the Mar- 
quis of Lansdowne, stating his regret 
at being unable to take the chair, in 
consequence of the alarming illness of 
his eldest son (the Earl of Kerry), 
though all his arrangements were com- 
pleted for leaving London on that even- 
ing. It was then proposed that the 
Marquis of Northampton should be ap- 
ointed Vice-President, in the room of 
. Harford, Esq., who had resigned 
from ill health. The motion was una- 
nimously adopted, and an express des- 
patched to secure his Lordship’s at- 
tendance on Monday evening. Some 
temporary arrangements were made, to 
facilitate the distribution of tickets, and • 
it was agreed that the officers intrusted 
with this duty should be at their posts 
at eight o’clock on Monday morning. 
Sectional officers and committees were 
appointed, after which the General Com- 
mittee adjourned to twelve o’clock on 
Saturday, 27th August. To prevent the 
final meeting of the Association from 
interfering with the deliberations of the 
Commitee as in Dublin, it was resolved. 
that the close of the meeting should 
take place on Saturday evening, in the 
Theatre. It was gratifying to' observe,, 
that all traces ofthe temporary estrange- 
ment of Sir David Brewster firom his 
old colleagues in the Council had dis- 
appeared. The members seemed eager 
to welcome him, and he was equally 
eager to show that past differences were’ 
forgotten. The Marquis of Northamp<i- 
ton arrived in course of the evening. 
MONDAY, AUG. 22. 
At eleven o’clock, the several Sections 
met at their appointed stations, and 
proceeded to business. 
Section A.— MATHEMATICAL 
AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
President -Rev. W- Wheweli,. 
Vice Presidents — Sir D. Brewster, Sir W. R. 
Hamilton. 
Secretaries— Professor Forbes. W. S. Harris, 
Esq. F. W. JERRARD, Esq. 
Committee- -C . Fabbage, Esq., F R. S , F. 
Baily, Esq , Professor James Cliallis, Mr. 
Chatfield. Professor McCullagb, Robert W. 
Fox, Esq., William Freiul, Esq., G. Ge.rard, 
Esq , Professor Iloyd, J. W Lubbock, Esq 
Rev. Dr. Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, 
Professor Moll, Rev. G, Peacock, Professor 
Rigaiul, Professor Ritchie, Jehu Robison, 
Esc| , Professor Stevelly, H. F. Talbot, Esq., 
Professor Wheatstone. 
The President of the Section took 
the chair. — The Chairman stated that 
according to the directions of the Gene- 
ral Committee, that Committee of the 
Section had met in the morning, and 
set down the papers which they deemed 
proper to have brought before the Sec- 
tion on this day ; giving, as usual, a 
preference to those subjects which had 
been undertaken at the suggestion or 
request of the Association. It was well 
known, he observed, that grants of 
money had been voted by the General 
Committee in aid of important resear- 
ches, and some valuable discoveries had 
resulted ; and that on that day they 
were about to be gratified as well as in- 
structed, by hearing of laborious and 
searching observations and experiments 
which, but for the valuable pecuniary 
aid afforded by the British Association, 
must have lain, as they had already 
done, for years, a mass of useless lum- 
ber. He concluded by stating that the 
Committee, in accordance with powers 
vested in them by the General Com- 
mittee, had added to their number, the 
names of many highly-distinguished in- 
dividuals, who had not arrived in town 
