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Saturday, 
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Monday, ! 
21st, 
10 
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Tuesday, 
22d, 
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^ Trades* Hall, Glassford street. 
10 a. m. Committees of Sections, 
Sectional Meetings. 
Botanic Garden. 
Committees of Sections. 
Sectional Meetings. 
8 p. m. Promenade in Exchange. 
Committees of Sections. 
Sectional Meetings. 
Dinner in Theatre. 
10 a. m. Committees of Sections. 
General Committee. 
Concluding General Meeting, 
Breakfast, daily, from 8 to 10 a. m. 
Ordinary, do. except Tuesday, 5 p. m. 
Model Rooms open daily from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., Buchanan street and Argyll 
Arcade. 
The first idea of holding these scientific meetings originated with the Germans, 
but the British Association differs from those of the Continent, in its relations to 
the Government—in appropriating money for scientific purposes, and in receiving 
representatives from all parts of the Empire. In some respects it is quite Repub¬ 
lican; and any person who has read two papers before any recognised scientific 
society may, on purchasing a ticket, become a member of the General or Govern¬ 
ing Committee, and have a voice in all its proceedings. The property of the As¬ 
sociation is vested in three permanent trustees; and the annual elective officers are, 
a President, a General Secretary, a General Treasurer, a Local Secretary, a Local 
Treasurer, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of Sections, and a Chair¬ 
man of the Committee of Recommendations. The Marquis of Breadalbane was 
the President for 1840, the Marquis of Northampton, President of the Royal So¬ 
ciety, Chairman of the Committee of Recommendations, and the Duke of Argyle, 
Vice President, of the Mechanical Section. I had the pleasure of listening to a 
papier read by this latter nobleman before the Geological Section, on the existence 
of copper-mines in Scotland. It was an interesting spectacle to behold one of the 
highest noblemen in the realm lecturing in a crowded room before a scientific 
meeting, and even filling a subordinate post in the Mechanical Section. What 
impressed on me more deeply than any thing else the importance of these meet¬ 
ings, was the severe and rigorous scrutiny to which all were subjected who ap¬ 
peared before the Sections. There seemed to be no respect paid to rank, nor to 
the high reputation of the lecturer, in the department with which his discourse 
was connected. Agassiz, Buckland, Lyell, Sir John Robinson, Sir David Brews¬ 
ter, De la Beche, &c., were all sure to be submitted to the same searching opera¬ 
tion. The discussions which ensued were always interesting, and calculated to 
elicit truth, and wrnre characterized throughout by great candor and courtesy of 
manner; but the man who ventures to address these meetings must take care to 
