PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING. 
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“ Copies of this circular letter were sent to the Presidents 
and Secretaries of all the Scientific Institutions in England, 
metropolitan and provincial, which were known to the Commit¬ 
tee, with a request that the invitation might he communicated 
to any members of those Institutions who might be disposed to 
accept it. The number of Societies in London thus addressed 
was thirteen ; the number in other parts of England was 
twenty-six, nine of these being in the County of York. 
“The letter was sent individually to the more distant Members 
of our own Society, and to persons, whether belonging to any 
Society or not, who were known to be active cultivators and 
promoters of science. One hundred and eighty-nine copies 
were issued on the latter account. In this list, and even in the 
list of Societies, it is more than possible that the Committee 
may have been guilty of some omissions, which they hope, 
however, will be pardoned, when the number of letters sent 
out is considered, amounting, in the whole, to more than four 
hundred. One hundred copies were also transmitted for simi¬ 
lar distribution to Societies and individuals, by the correspond¬ 
ents of the Committee in Scotland and Ireland; and two or 
three eminent foreigners were in like manner individually in¬ 
vited, though the Committee did not deem it prudent to extend 
invitations abroad, till it should be seen what reception the 
plan of the Association might meet with at home. Lastly, to 
ensure more general publicity, advertisements of the Meeting 
were inserted in the Philosophical Magazine for the months of 
August and September, an announcement of it having before 
appeared in the Edinburgh Journal of Science. 1 ’ 
Mr. Phillips then proceeded to read the answers which had 
been received to these invitations from persons who had been 
prevented, by unavoidable engagements, from being present 
at the Meeting:—answers, which, whilst they excited a deep 
regret for the absence of the distinguished writers, showed 
what valuable support the Association might justly count upon 
receiving from them hereafter. He stated, “that in several 
instances deputations had been appointed by provincial Institu¬ 
tions to attend the Meeting, and that gentlemen w r ere present, 
who had come for that purpose from London, Edinburgh, and 
Dublin, from Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birming¬ 
ham, and even from Bath and Bristol. The great distance of 
the Plymouth Institution had prevented any of its members 
from being present; but the official letter received from that 
body was a gratifying proof of the general interest felt in these 
proceedings, and of the benefit to be expected from a migratory 
Association, which might another year be as conveniently at- 
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