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SECOND REPORT— 1832. 
Music-room, and two lectures were delivered, the first by Dr. 
Ritchie on Magnetic Electricity, with reference especially to 
the recent discoveries of Mr. Faraday ; the second by Dr. 
Turner on the General Principles of Chemistry. 
On Thursday morning the University held a Convocation in 
the Theatre, for the purpose of conferring the honorary degree 
of Doctor in Civil Law on the under-mentioned Members of the 
Association:— 
Sir David Brewster, K.H. LL.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Instit. 
Reg. Sc. Paris. Corresp. 
Robert Brown, F.R.S. V.P.L.S. Instit. Reg. Sc. Paris. 
Corresp. 
John Dalton, F.R.S. Instit. Reg. Sc. Paris. Corresp. 
Michael Faraday, F.R.S. Instit. Reg. Sc. Paris. Corresp. 
The Regius Professor of Civil Law, Dr. Phillimore, in pre¬ 
senting them to the Convocation, adverted to the distinguished 
services which they had respectively rendered to different de¬ 
partments of science, and the celebrity which they had ac¬ 
quired by their successful labours, not only in Great Britain, 
but throughout Europe, and expressed the high satisfaction 
felt by the University of Oxford in enrolling such illustrious 
names in the catalogue of her Members. 
After the degrees had been conferred, a party of the Members 
of the Association accompanied Professor Henslow r on a bota¬ 
nical excursion ; and a numerous assemblage attended the Pre¬ 
sident, to hear his Lecture on the Geology of the neighbour¬ 
hood of Oxford. In the course of the Lecture Dr. Buckland 
took occasion to enforce the importance of Geological Science, 
as connected with agricultural improvement, and suggested 
that there might be great utility in an appointment, by the 
Geological Committee, of a Sub-committee to devote its atten¬ 
tion to this object. He pointed out many defects in the ordi¬ 
nary system of drainage, and explained in what manner large 
tracts of land might in many cases be permanently drained at a 
small expense, by methods depending entirely on a knowledge 
of the structure of the strata. He adverted to the possibility 
of reclaiming the peat bogs in Ireland, distinguishing those 
which are capable of being reclaimed, from those where the 
outlay of capital must exceed any profitable return; and in 
speaking of Artesian wells*, suggested the advantage which 
* The name of Artesian wells has been recently applied to those wells in 
which water is obtained by boring down and introducing tubes, through strata 
destitute of water, into a subjacent stratum, which is charged with it, in such a 
manner that it ascends through the tubes almost, or entirely, to the surface, 
