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pitality which had been set them at Oxford, and would receive 
the Meeting not merely with the forms of courtesy, but with 
the right-hand of fellowship. In one respect he believed that 
they would be more advantageously circumstanced as to the 
means of offering accommodation ; for at the time when the As¬ 
sociation would meet again, at the latter end probably of the 
month of June, they should be enabled, he trusted, to receive a 
large proportion of its Members within the College walls. 
The Rev. Win. Whewell said, that his services had been 
fully and freely given to the Association, and would be so given 
as long as they could be useful. He hoped that all who were 
assembled there would accept the offer of a cordial welcome to 
Cambridge ; he hoped that all the Members of the Association 
in every part of the empire would equally accept it. 6( We are 
desirous,” he added, “ of seeing as many as possible from as many 
places as possible; we ask for the company of all who are cul¬ 
tivators of science or interested in its objects. I trust all such 
persons have felt here that they are united by one common tie; 
and with so large and united a body of zealous and active men, 
I think I may reasonably prophesy that the next Meeting will 
be a worthy successor to the brilliant and successful one which 
now soon must close.” 
The Marquis of Northampton moved the Thanks of the Meet¬ 
ing to the Vice-Chancellor, the Heads of Houses, and the other 
resident Members of the University, for the great hospitality 
and attention with which they had received the Association. 
The Resolution was seconded l)y Sir David Brewster, supported 
by the President of the Geological Society of London, Mr. Mur¬ 
chison, and passed unanimously. 
The President said, that he could not allow the Meeting to 
quit the public Theatre without adding on his own behalf, and 
on behalf of his fellow-academics who are Members of the Asso¬ 
ciation, the expression of their grateful thanks to the Vice- 
Chancellor and the Heads of Houses, for the kind assistance 
which they had rendered them in promoting the objects and 
providing for the accommodation of the Meeting. 
The Vice-Chancellor replied in the following manner. “ On 
my own part, Sir, and on the part of the University, I beg 
leave to assure you, that we are most sensible of the advantages 
afforded to us by this visit of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, and that we have been most happy to 
have had it in our power to offer it any accommodation; and I 
will add, that whilst the pursuit of truth and the advancement 
of knowledge are its objects, and whilst it pursues those ends 
by the judicious rules which at present regulate its proceed- 
