BVENIXG MEETINGS. 
XXVII 
LL.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor in the Royal Institution, delivered a 
Discourse on Magnetic and Diamagnetic Phsenomena. 
On Monday, June 28th, at 8 p.m., in the same room, Hugh Edwin Strick¬ 
land, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., delivered a Discourse on the Dodo {Didua in- 
ep/Ki), of which extinct Species of Bird certain portions are preserved in 
the Asbmoleau Museum at Oxford. 
On Tuesday, June 29th, at S p.m., in the same room, a Microscopic 
Soiree was held, when objects selected for displaying the recent progress 
of rnicroscopicai research were submitted to the examination of (he Members 
of the Association by M. Ebrenberg, Dr. Addison, Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, 
Dr. Carpenter, Mr. J. Darker, Mr. llayley, Dr. Hooker and Profeisor llyrtt. 
Preparations by Professor Rymcr Jones, Mr. H. Lawson, Dr. Leeson, Mr. 
M.S.Legg,Mr. J. Peach, Mr. Andrew Ross, Mr. James Smith, Mr. Stowe, 
Mr. F. Syraonds, Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites, Mr. C. M. Topping, Mr. N. D. 
Ward and Mr. C. Woodward. 
On Wednesday, June 30, at 5 p.m., in the Theatre, the concluding Gene¬ 
ral Meeting of the Association was held, when the Proceedings of the Gene¬ 
ral Committee, and the grants of money for scientific purposes were ex¬ 
plained to the Members. 
The Meeting was then adjourned to Swansea, on Wednesday, the 9th of 
August, 1848. 
