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~. THE FRIEND of the CLERGY CORPORA TION:foi allowing Permanent Pensions, " not exceed ing £4O per annum," to the WidOws and Orphan unmarried Daughters of Clergymen of the Established Church, and for affording temporary assistance to necessitous Clergymen and their Families throughout England, Wales, and Ireland. The Committee of this Corporation very earnestly solicit assistance to enable them to carry out the benevolent inten tions of the Charity, there being at the present time 134 appli cants for admission as pensioners, and 400 petitions for special aids There are now SO lady-pensioners on the funds, at a cost of £3,000 per annum. The Committee have expended £20,608155. In pensions and grants since the year 1850. The Rev. JOHN E. COX, M.A., F.S.A., ) Hon. • JAMES N. GOREN, Esq., M.A., j Secs. HENRY BRAMALL, Secretary. - Life subscription, £lolos., conferring the privilege of two votes at every election of pensioners ; annual subscription, £1 114., with two votes at each election for the current year. Offices of the Corporation, 4, St. Martin's-place, London, W.C. LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. 1 , -1 The Profits of this Society will be divided in future, Quinquennially instead of Septennially ; and Policies will participate at each division, after three annual payments of premium have bedn made, instead of five as heretofore. Policies effected now, or before Midsummer, 1860, will par ticipate in four-fifths, or 80 per cent., of the profits at the next division in January, 1863, according to the conditions con tained in the Society's ProApectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring young lives are lower than in many other old established Office, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund in addition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy Stamps paid by the Office: Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle street, London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES lIENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Offices—No. 1, Dale-street, Liverpool, and 20 and 21, Poultry, • London. Subscribed Capital, £2,000,000. 1810. 1857. 1857. £222,000.. Fire Premiums £289,000.. Increase.. £67,000 72,780.. Life 17,338.. Life Annuities 820,00 t Funds and accu mulated i 1,088,000.. Increase.. 268, 800 invested .... The Income of the Company now exceeds £450,000 a-year. The sums paid in settlement of losses exceed One Million sterling. FIRE INSURANCE, at home and abroad, at rates propor tioned to the risk. LIFE INSURANCE.—Prospectuses may be had on appli cation, and attention is specially invited to the system of Guaranteed Bonuses in the Life Department, by which is secured :-1. Exemption from liability in partnership, under any possible circumstances. 2. Bonuses, which are not con tingent on profits, but fixed and guaranteed by the whole re sources of the Company. Fire Policies due Michaelmas day should be renewed on or before the 14th October. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary. T HE TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. 7, Bank-buildings, Lothbury, and 42 and 43, Poultry, London. With which is incorporated the business of THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1849, and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. TRUSTEES. Matthew Marshall, Esq., (Bank of England.) William Smee, Esq.. (Bank of England). Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C. Henry Blair Mayne, Esq. • The business of the ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY having been purchased by the TRAVELLERS' AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, all the Policies of the late Company adopted under the Deed of Purchase are guaran teed and kept in force by the Travellers' and Marine In surance Company, upon precisely the same terms and con ditions under which they were originally issued. Total Policies issued 39,000 Claims paid since 1849 £71,000 Annual income from Premiums (1857) Insurance effected against General Accidents, Railway Ac cidents, and Marine Risks ; either Fatal, Non-fatal, or both together ; with or without Medical expenses extra. For Proposal Forms, Prospectuses, and all other information, apply to the Manager, at the Chief Office, or to any of the Company's local Agents EDWARD SOLLY, Manager. 7, Bank -buildings, Lothbury, London. INTERNATIONAL - LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858. — Established 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of Grace.—lt always ha's been, and still is, the practice of this Society to pay claims under policies of assurance, notwith standing the death of the assured occurring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SYMES, Chairman.. la II E INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. W. Kenworthy Browne. Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church. Esq. Johd Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. - I Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. • Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wbeatstone, Youn F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford g. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &c. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., G 7, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford row. - Division of Profits will be declared The next Quinquennial in May, 18(10. • Examples of ] lonus up to May, 1855 : ------- Bonus in Th ,„„. ,„ Permanent Polley Sum addition ---- m Reduction taken Age. Assured. to Sum Cash. of Annual out in Assured. Premiums. i...-..-..... - -- £ £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. 1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 • The following are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was estitblished in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every flve..years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three 'hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other in f o rmation, apply theo Chairman, 142, Strand. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATU Y. JuSt published, price is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps. SELF -PRESERVATION. -A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the'cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage trona youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Phy siology of Marriage in its social, moral, and physical rela tions. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of everyvanety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases • • BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,' 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more • misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than. perhaps, any other class of disease known to Modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physicalhealth, condi tion, and who are consciou s of having hazarded the happiness, and privileges to which every human being is en titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous pen, inconsideratewhen wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of self indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil alad its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is Scarcely an degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. • Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhilll Horne, 19 the . Le Author, icester ware ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from who may he consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, Loudon. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hormusjee. 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NO MORE PILLS nor any other MEDICINE for Indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual Constipation, Flatu lency, Acidity, Palpitation of the Heart, Torpidity of the Liver, - Bilious Headache, Nervousness, Biliousness, General Dibility, Diarrhoea, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2 penny stamps, and you will receive post free, 64 pages, the people's edition of "PERFECT HEALTH RESTORED," without pills, purgatives, or medicines of any kind, and with out expense, by a simple, pleasant, and infallible means which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, adapted to the general reader. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattiker, Dr. Wurtzer, Dr. Ingram, and many thousand other respectable persons, whose health has been re stored by it after all other means of cure had failed. London : Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, and through all Booksellers in Town and Country. 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Open on Sunday : refreshment ticket, Gd. • NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Eruptions. Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during, pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, .Consumption, also Children's Complaints, effectually removed by DU BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA AR ABICA FOOD, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies in illness, and is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the only food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of gratitude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decks—" I have derived con siderable benefit from Du' Barry's Revalenta Arabica, Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the limblieation of these lines. Stuart de Decies." Cure No. 49,332: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner vousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near Disc, Norfolk " Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing, Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner, vousness, indig,estion, g•atherings, low spirits, and nervous f an des. Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool : a cure of ten years dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure, of con 4ipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. con 'jr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 30 : 212. Cap tain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 40,116. 3laior Edie, of enlargement of the liver, and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 30,118. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings. Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea and debility. Cure No. 30,028. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Cure No. 3• , ,830. Wm. Hunt, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 40,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de- • rangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58.810. Mrs. Hoize, aged 107 years, of dyspepsia (indigestion), debility, irritability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for 70 years. Cure No. 50,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoia. Cure No. 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castle stuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indiges tion. Cure No. 5012. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No. 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suf fered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured bi Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." So. 4,108. " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with erampa. spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health-restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. , Rev John W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory, Norfolk." 'No. "Three years' exteesive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's hezlth restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skib bereen." Cure No. 3,900. "Thirteen years' eough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's exce ri e „t, itevalenta Arabia Food. James Porter, Athol strpet Perth." Important Caution against the fearful danger of spurious imitations :---, The Vice-Chancellor WIT William Page Wood granted an injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for imitating "Du Barry's Revafenta Arablea Food." for all climates, and with all instructions. InSeuaintaibstleyrils,aelkefl lb,. Is. 9d, • 21b., 4s. CA. • 121 b., 225. Super ye, t i ne d qua lity lib., 05 . ; ils. 4 511;., 21s ; 101 b., 335, The 101 h. and 1211). canisters are forwarded cartiftge free, on re. ceipt o f p os i,-4;bc,e order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent street, London INVInp, Mason, and Co., purveyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadi ly ; Jaiii6g Well, 4n, Sloane-stro t ; also at Co, 'l;rackehurch-street ; 330, *3O, and 451, Strin d; Cheanside ; an 4 t 491kOpsgate•StFeeh 63 150, 1 1 114 198 (Nitord•strect, / -.- 2._ ~._~ ~. ~., G~~> .~~ ~ ~i L-t?i~G-fit Qa - ~.-.t. -N 4 ----- 11111111111111‘------ apnliestione, the erline-aetrectain= R ",, 4 " , 0f.,0 4 ; ) - A . 4. ?.. l a ig:l v lt o n t il s ig tor c m o s nd a u n /T ui ., e t s he for e t l i e i c e t • ' A /!3 in them, the power of retitle 1 q I • .4 i* ei . , , • _ tions painless, the measures fe 4tru.W4 l ? f 4;:e - 4 0# health, and for preventing or n ao'S ‘ A. Div L , 1 -4 ... • s "OP 4.34_ --such are anion.. the more L Ap i e r' results of pure scientific research N ' - -- kind have been blessed and Sta e he PRICE 4 D • STAMPED, SD. They are evidence unmistakeable of - the close affinity between the aims and tendencies of' science and those of true State policy. lh proportion to the activity, productivity, and prosperity of a community is its power of responding to the calls of the Finance Minister. By a far-seeing one the man of science will be re garded with a favourable eye, not less for the unlooked-for streams of wealth that have already flowed, but for those that may in future arise out of the applications of the abstract truths to the discovery of which he devotes himself. (ApplatE;e.) After pointing out the benefit which had arisen to the State from the discoveries of Bland., OerstM, Hunter, Priestley, and Babbage, and the advantages accruing from the establishment of the British Observatory at Kew, and the application of pure mathematics and astronomy to trade and commerce, in making voyages safer and.speedier, and after acknowledging the aid which the Government had aftorded to scientific expeditions recommended by the association, to the Kew Observatory, and to other institutions, the lea rne d p ro f essor concluded as follows :—" It 'now only remains for me to express how deeply-I feel the h onour ' con f erre d o n me by the position in which, through your kind ness, I am now placed ; how highly I esteem the opportunity afforded me of addressing -so distin guished and influential an audience in this most noble hall ; and how sincerely I thank you for the patience and favour with which you have received the address." (Loud applause.) The MAYOR, in proposing a vote of thanks to Professor Owen, observed that the assembly must all have derived an immense amount of. information from the general review which had been given of the practical sciences of the present day. Without, however, saying more at that late hour, he could not refrain, on behalf of the corporation and. the inhabitants from bidding their chairman a hearty welcome as the representative of the British Asso ciation. He felt proud in having the Association there on that occasion, and he hoped that the accom modation provided, and the cordial reception the members would receive, would induce the Associa tion to visit Leeds again in its regular order. dered. The practical results of the study of the ani mal kingdom in relation to sources of food and beasts of traction and burden were then referred. to, and after some remarks on the great importance of natural museums of natural history, he added—The most elaborate and beautiful of created things, those manifestin g life, have much to teach—much that conies home to the business of man, and also to the highest elements of his moral nat are. The nation that gather together thousands of corals, shells, insects, fishes, birds, and beasts, and votes the requisite funds for preparing, preserving, hous ing, and arranging them, derives the smallest pos sible return for the outlay by merely gazing and wondering at the manifold variety and strangeness of such specimens of natural history. The simplest coral and the meanest insect may have something in its history worth knowing, mid in some way profitable. Every organism is a character in which Divine wisdom is written, and which ought to be expounded. (Applause.) Our present system of opening the book of nature to the masses, as in the galleries of the British Museum, without any pro vision for expounding her language, is akin to that which keeps the Book of God sealed to the multi tude in a dead tongue. (Applause.) The learned professor next went on to inculcate the importance of a practical knowledge of sanitary science, and re ferred to the ignorance which had for so long pre vailed on all questions involved in such science, and in the painful results of this ignorance, presented not only in large workshops and densely populated towns, but in our naval and military arrangements, as shown during the Crimean campaign, especially noticing the awful loss of life in the French army at Varna and in the Dobrudscha. He referred to the successful sanitary operations at Croydon and Ely, and added—Jt, has been shown by the Sanitary Commissioners as a general result that nearly one half the prevalent diseases are due to one or other form of atmospheric impurity ; impurity from decomposinc , fecal or animal and vegetable matter within and without human habitations and beneath the sites of atmospheric impurity from over crowding. For the prevention of the diseases aris ing from these causes the sanitary physician must direct his requisitions, not to the apothecary, but to professors of new arts which are only partially created—the art of the sanitary architect and the art of the sanitary . engineer. The latter has already officially shown how he may collect water from natural and artificial springs, convey it into houses unintermittingly fresh and without stagnation, and by its means remove from houses, through self cleansing drains and self-cleansing sewers con stantly, and before noxious decompositions can com mence, all the fecal and waste animal and vegetable matter. In our time physicians have ably exerted themselves in aid of the sanitary engineer and ad ministrator, but it is to the landlord—to the repre sentative landlords and owners of habitations—in Parliament to whom exhortations arc now required to be addressed to raise their minds above " the sordid considerations" of the expenses of cure, that is, of the expenses of those sanitary works of com bined drainage and water which it is their province to supply. (Applause.) Agriculture has of late years made unusual progress in this country, and much of that'progress is due to the application of scientific principles ; chiefly of those supplied by chemistry ; a lesi degree of zoology and physid logy. Geology now teaches the precise nature and relations of soils—a knowledge of great practical importance in guiding the drainer of land in the modifications of his general rules of practice. Palm ontology has brought to light unexpected sources of valuable manures, in phosphatic relics of ancient animal life, accumulated in astounding masses in certain localities of England, as, for instance, in the red crag of Suffolk and the green sands of Cambridge. But quantities of azetic, ammoniacal, and phosphatic matters are still suffered to run to waste ; and, as if to bring the wastefulness more home to the conviction, those products, so valuable when rightly administered, become a source of annoyance, unremunerative outlay, and disease, when, as at present in most towns, imperfectly , and irrationally disposed of. (Ap plause.) For the most part, thought is taken only how to get rid of these products in the easiest and quickest way. The metropolitan authorities have hitherto carried the chain of reasoning no further. They have turned them into the Thames, the receptacle nearest at hand; but in so doing have failed in their prime intention. The metro polis is not even rid of its excreta ; but they are returned upon it and accumulated with increased noxious and morbific power on the strands of the valley that bisects it ; appealing, as is notorious, summer after summer, to the very Legislature itself, with unintermitting and importunate odours, compelling the attention of the possessors of land and houses to this important subject. (Applause.) and here I would beg leave to remark that in the operations of nature there is generally a succession of processes co-ordinated for a given result ; a peach is not directly developed as such from its elements; the seed would, a priori, give no idea of the tree, nor the tree of the flower, nor the fertilized germ of that flower of the pulpy fruit in which the seed is buried. It is eminently . characteristic of the Creative wisdom, this far-seeing and provision of an ultimate result, through the successive opera tions of a co-ordinate series of seemingly very.dif ferent conditions. The further man discerns, in a series of conditions, their co-ordination to produce a given result the nearer does his wisdom approach —though the distance be still immeasurable—to the Divine wisdom. One philanthropist builds a fever hospital, another drains a town. One crime-pre venter trains the boy, another hangs the man. One statesman would raise money by augmenting a duty, or by a direct tax ; and finds the revenue not increased in the expected ratio. Another dimi nishes a tax, or abolishes a duty, and through the foreseen consequences the revenue is improved. The latter is the wise statesman. Quarantine exemplifies only the first step in the progress of thought, bearing on the prevention of a dreaded distemper. It is a system which might keep out contraband goods or uncertified strangers, but it is powerless against the gaseous factors of plague, cholera, or yellow fever. No country in Europe has suffered more from such maladies than Naples or Portugal, where quaran tine regulations are most stringent. Science is deeply concerned in one progressive step—the uniformity of standard in measure and weight throughout the civilised world ; in urging oil which step energetic and unwearied efforts are n6w being made by a committee of our fellow labourers of the Royal Society of Arts, among whom the name of the prime promoter of this and kindred reforms, Mr. James Yates, deserves special and honourable mention. Chemistry is more concerned in the uniform expression of the results of her deli cate balances among her cultivators of different countries ; natural history is no less interested in the use by all observers of one and the same scale for measuring, and of one set of terms for expres sing the superficial dimensions of her subjects. In reference to the relations now subsisting between the State and Science, my first duty is to express our grateful szase of such measure of aid, co-opera tion, and countenance as has been allotted to scientific bodies, enterprises, and discoveries, — more especially to acknowledge how highly- we prize the sentiments of the Sovereign towards our works and aims, manifested by spontaneous tributes to successful scientific research, in honourable titles and Royal gifts, and, above all, in the gracious ex pressions accompanying them, with which her Majesty has been pleased to distinguish some of our body. Happy are we, under the present benignant reign, to have in the Royal Consort a Prince endowed with exemplary virtues, and with such accomplishments in science and art as have enabled his Royal Highness effectually, and on some memorable occasions, in the most important degree, to promote the best interests of both. We rejoice, moreover, in the prospect of being honoured and favoured at a future meeting by the Presidency of the Prince Consort ; and that ere long the Association may give the opportunity for the delivery of another of those " addresses" preg nant with deep thought, good sense, and right feeling, which have placed the name of Prince Albert high in the esteem of the intellectual classes, and have engraven it deeply in the hearts of the humblest of her Majesty's subjects. (Loud applause.) On the part of the State sums continue to be voted in aid of the means independently possessed by the British Museum and the Royal Society, wherebythe Natural History Collections in the first are extended and the more direct scientific aims of the latter institution are advanced. The Botanical Gardens and Museum at Kew and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn-street are examples of the national policy in regard to science of which we can hardly over-estimate the importance. Most highly and gratefully also do we appreciate the co-operation of the Board of Trade with our meteorologists by the recent for. mation of the department km the collection of meteorological obsetvations made at sea. But not by words only would or does science make return to .Governments fostering and aiding her endea vours for the public weal. Every practical appli cation of her discoveries tends to the same end as that which the enlightened statesman has in view. (Applause.) The steam-engine, in its manifold (Hear, hear.) The Rev. Dr. HooK, the Vicar of Leeds, seconded the resolution. He could not, he said, restrain from offering his congratulations to the British Association on this its fourth visit to its native county. When a voice from Scotland, evoking the practical energy of Yorkshire, called into exist ence the British Association, the state of science in England was such as to provoke the remarks of foreigners, and to excite regret among themselves, not only of those devoted to scientific pursuits, but of every one who was anxious for the honour of his country. Through'tke influence of that association their country had advanced to its proper, that was the foremost, place in the field of science—the posi tion it occupied in every other department of hamtm learninm. (Hear, hear.) It would be impertinent in him to attempt to pass a eulogy ouProfessor Owen, whose fame was world wide, and it would be equally presumptuous if he were to make any remarks on the address in which their president had photo graphed the discoveries of science, but he could not withhold his: thanks for the general tone of that address. (Applause.) It would confirm the grow ing feeling that science, instead of being, as it was once suppos3d, the opponent, was really the hand maid of Christianity. People were beginning to see that the philosopher might carry out his re searches into the secrets of nature fearless of con sequences and regardless of results ; and that, at the same time, the theologian, with equal tenacity and boldness, could assert the facts of revelation, since the author of nature and the author of reve lation was the same blessed Being. They might also rest assured that the facts of science were reconcileable with the facts of Scripture, though in their ignorance they knew not how to reconcile them, until the Christian philosopher came among them, and was able to unite, as Lord Bacon said, a deep knowledge of the works of God with a know ledge of His Word. (Applause.) The motion was carried with acclamation. Professor PHILLIPS then stated that tickets had been taken by 150 old life members, 31 old annual members, 26 new life members, 62 new annual members, 519 associates, 415 ladies; and six foreigners, making a total of 1;259, whose subscrip tions amounted to £1,400. (Applause.) The meetings of the several sections have been attended to-day, the aggregate number of per sons present not bemg far from 1,800 or 2,000. Aniong the papers put down to be read to-day were the following : SECTION A.--MATHEITICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. Rev. Professor Powell—Continuation of Report on Luminous Meteors for 1857, 1858 ; B. Stewart —On Radiant Heat; W. S. Ayrton---A communi cation on Heat, and the Indestructibility of ,Ele mentary Bodies, by Miss Rosina M. Zorulin ; Dr. P. A. Siljestrom—On the Distribution of Heat in the Interior of the Earth ; also, on the Constitu tion of Comets ; Colonel Sykes—A communication from Mr. Broun, on the Laws of Magnetic Varia tion, Intensity, and Dip observed in India, as com pared with those derived from the Makerstoun Observations. SECTION 8.-CHEMICAL SCIENCE. Stevenson Macadam, Ph. 11, F.R.S.E.—On M. de Lucas' Claim to be the Discoveror of the Non- Presence of lodine in Atmospheric Air, Rain, Water, and Snow • also, on an Improved El ec t r i c Lamp, invented and manufactured by Mr. W. Hart, Edinburgh ; C. W. Bingley, Ph. D., F.C.S.—On the Effects produced on Glass by exposure to the action of Mud in Water ; W. Huggon—On the Alkaline Waters of Leeds ; W. Wallace, Ph. D., F.C.S.—On Chloro-Arsenious Acid and some of its compounds. SECTION Co.—GEOLOGY. J. G. Marshall—On the Geology of the Lake District ; T. W. Embleton—On the Northern Divi sion of the Yorkshire Coal Field ; Rev. J. W. Nor wood—On the Comparative Geology of Hotham, near Cave ; P. G. Bevan, M.E., F.G.S.—On the Marine Shell Bed of the South Wales Coal Basin ; Rev. E. Trollope—On the Geology of a part of Lin colnshire hitherto unexplained ; Rev. W. Thorpe— On the Permian System in Yorkshire ; Rev. F. F. Statham—On the Geology of the Scilly Islands ; J. W. Dawson—On Vegetable Structure visible' n _ - the Coal of Nova Scotia. SECTION D.—ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, INCLUDINU PHYSIOLOGY. Professor T. R. Kinahan, M.D.—Report (provi sional) on Dublin Bay Dredging and on the Dublin Bay Crustacea ; J. Davy, M.D., F.R.S., Inspector- General of Hospitals—Some Observations on the Fishes of the Lake District •, N. B. Ward, F.R.S. —On Suburban Gardens and on Aquaria ; Mr. J. H. Davis, Thirsk—On the Plants of the Oolitic Moorlands ; Dr. Carrington, Yeadon—On the Geo logical Distribution of Plants in some districts of Yorkshire ; Rev. H. 11. Higgins—On the Death of the Common Hive Bee, supposed to be occasioned by a parasite fungus; T. C. Eyton, F.L.S.--On the arrangements of Birds and Further Report on Oys ter Beds and on the Habits of Oysters. SUB-SECTION D.—PHYSIOLOGY. Dr. G. Harley—NOtes of Experiments on Diges tion ; T. Nunneley, F.R.C.S.—On the Structure of the Choroid Coat of the Eye, and more particularly on the character and arrangement of the pigmen tary matter. SECTION E.—GEOGRAPIIY AND ETHNOLOGY. The President, Mr. F. Murchison, opened the section with a brief but interesting address, and then communicated letters from Dr. Livingstone, on the Zambesi ; Mr. J. Crawfurd—The effects of Commixture, Locality, Climate, and Food, OR the races of Man ; Dr. N. Shaw—On the Geography of British North America, more particularly British Columbia, Frazer River, &c. ; C. R. Markham—On the Navigation of the Ucayali, an affluent of the Amazon ; James S. Wilson—Notes of the Physical Geography of North-Western Australia. SECTION F.—ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. John Strang, LL.D.—Water Supply to Great Towns, its extent, cost, uses, and abuses ; Thomas Bazley—Trade and Commerce the auxiliaries of Civilisation and Comfort ; Wm. Newmarch—On the History of Prices of 1857 and 1858 ; F. G. P. Nelson--An Examination of the Influence of Over crowding and Density of Population in producing Phthisis and Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, applied to some cwestions discussed in the recent report on the Sanitary Condition of the Army ; W. M. Tortt—On the subjects connected with Crimea and Punishment. • SECTION G.•--MECHANICAL SCIENCE. Address of the President. J. Oldham—On the Loss of Ships at Sea ; J. Glynn—On the Economy of Water Power ; G. Rennie—On the Construction of Floating and Fixed Batteries ; Admiral Moor som—On the Performance of Steamvessels ; J. Maclean—On the Submersion of Telegraph Cables; C. F. Whitworth—On the recent Improvements in Railway Signals ; also Electra-Galvanic and. Mechanical ; E. 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All parties interested in horses and cattle will do well to apply to 77, Newgate-street, London, for a pamphlet which is sent post-free. had declined during his tenure of office ; but such a supposition would have been disproved by the valuable and important reports which had been presented to the general committee. (Hear, hear.) It only remained for him to return thanks for the kind consideration which he had received from the present officers of the wsmacia tion, as well as from every member with whom it was his duty to co-operate,- and to resign the chair to one whose name would add lustre even to the British Associa tion and whose high talents would no doubt be de voted to the advancement of its interests, and to the promotion of the objects for which it was founded. Professor OWEN, who was received with loud applause, then proceeded. to read his inaugural ad dress, a very prolix document, which occupied full three hours in its delivery. He commenced by say ing,—We are here met, in this our 2Sth annual as sembly, having accepted, for the present year, the invitation of the flourishing town and firm seat of British manufacturing energy, Leeds, to continue the aim of the Association, which is the promotion of science, or the knowledge of the laws of nature ; whereby we acquire a dominion over nature, and are thereby able so to apply her powers as to ad vance the wellbeing of society and exalt the Condi tion of mankind. It is no light matter, therefore, the work that we are here assembled to do. God has given to man a capacity to discover and compre hend the laws by which his universe is governed ; and man is impelled by a healthy and natural im pulse to exercise the faculties by which that know ledge can be acquired. Agreeably with the relations which have been instituted between our finite facul ties and the phenomena that affect them, we arrive at demonstrations and convictions which are the most certain that our present state of being can have or act upon. Nor let any one, against whose prepossessions a scientific truth may jar, confound such demonstrations with the speculative philoso phies condemned by the apostle,—ascribe to arro gant intellect soaring to regions of forbidden mys- ' teries the acquisition of such truths as have been or may be established by patent and inductive re search. For the most part the discoverer has been so placed by circumstances, rather than by prede termined choice, as to have his work of investiga tion allotted to him as his daily duty, in the ful filment of which he is brought face to face with phenomena into which he must inquire, and the re sult of that inquiry he must faithfully impart. The progress of natural as of moral truth has been and is progressive ; but it has pleased the author of all truth to vary the fashion of the imparting of such parcels thereof as he has allotted, from time to time, for the behoof and guidance of mankind. Those who are privileged with the faculties of discovery are therefore to be regarded as pre-ordained instru ments in making known the power of God, with out a knowledge of which, as well as of Scripture, we are told that we shall err. Great and marvellous have been the manifestations of this power im parted to us of late years, not only in respect of the shape, motions, and. solar relations of the earth, but also of its age and its inhabitants. In regard to the period during which the globe allotted to man has revolved in its orbit, present evidence strains the mind to grasp such sum of past time with an effort like that by which it tries to realise the space dividing that orbit from the fixed. stars and remoter nebulae. Yet, during all those auras that have passed since the Cambrian rocks were deposited which bear the impressed record of crea tive power, as it was then manifested, we know, through the interpreters of these " writings on stone," that the earth was vivified by the sun's light and heat, was fertilised by refreshing showers, and washed by tidal waves. No stagna tion has been permitted to air or ocean. The vast body of waters not only moved, as a whole, in or derly oscillations, regulated, as now, by sun and moon, but were rippled and agitated by winds and storms. The atmosphere was healthily influenced. by its horizontal currents, and by ever-varying clouds and vapours, rising, condensing, dissolving, and falling in endless vertical circulation. With these conditions of life, we know that life itself has been enjoyed. throughout the same countless thou sands of years; and that with life, from the begin ning, there has been death. The earliest testimony of a living thing, whether shell, crust, or coral, in the oldest fossiliferous rock, is at the same time proof that it died. At no period has the gift of life been monopolised by a few contemporary indivi duals through a stagnant sameness of untold time ; but it has been handed. over from generation to generation, and successfully enjoyed by the myriads that constitute the species. And herein we discern the greater beneficence and wisdom - that through death, whether sudden or preceded by a brief decay, the individual enjoys the various phases of life—healthy, assimilative growth, active youth, and vigorous maturity, with the procreative facul ties and instincts to boot—and as life rises in the scale, even to the present highest form, foreknow ing of his end, death is still the condition on which are enjoyed. man's purest pleasures—the reveren tial love of parents—the holy affections of wedlock —the fond yearning towards offspring. (Applause.) It has further been given us to know, that not only the individual but the species perishes ; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has b ee n concomitant with creative power, which has continued to provide a succession of species; and furthermore, that as regards the varying forms' of life which this planet hathwitnessed, there has been "an advance and progress in the main," Geology demonstrates that the creative force has not deserted this earth during any of her epochs of time; and that in respect to no one class of animals has the manifestation of that force been limited to one epoch. Not a fish that now lives but has come into being, during a comparatively recent period ; the existing species were preceded. by other species, and these again by others still more different from the present. No existing genus of fishes can be traced beyond a moiety of known creative time. So the creation of every class of animals, reptiles, birds, or beasts, has been succes sive and continuous, from the earliest times at which we have evidence of their existence ; crea tion ever compensating for extinction. Such is a brief summary of facts most nearly interesting us which have been demonstratively made known re specting our earth and its inhabitants ; and when we reflect at how late and in how brief a period of historical time the acquisition of such knowledge has been permitted, we must feel that, vast as it seems, it may be but a very small part of the patri mony of truth destined for the possession of future generations. The President observed that review ing the proceedings, aims, and objects of the British Association during the last 27 years was like rea lising.the grand philosophical dream or pre-figura tive vision of Francis Bacon, recounted in his " New Atlantes," in which, for instance, certain, members of the " six days' college" were deputed as "mer chants of light; to make " circuits or visits of divers principal cities of the kingdom." The observa tories, Royal and other scientific societies, British Museum, 2oological, Botanical, and Horticultural gardens, now - combine to realise what Bacon fore saw in distant perspective. The universal law of gravitation, the circulation of the blood, the analo gous course of the magnetic influence, the develop ment and progress of chemistry, geology, and palaeontology ; the invent ion an d practical appli cation of gas, the steam-engine, photography, telegraphy—such, in the few centuries since Bacon wrote, have been the rewards of the faithful followers of his rules of research. Dr. Owen then commenced his survey of the recent progress in the various kingdoms of science, with astro nomy and the physical sciences, touching suc cessfully on the laws of motion, gravitation, and light ; and he observed that in Bacon's time some of the natural sciences had not germinated. Chymistry was then alchymy ; geology and palaeon tology were undreamt of ; while magnetism and electricity had begun to be observed, and their phenomena comprehended. and defined. About a century later the phenomena of repulsion as well as of attraction of lightbodies by electric substances were noticed; and Dufay in 1733 enunciated the principle that " electric bodies attract all those that are not so, and repel them as soon as they are become electric by the vicinity of the electric body." (Applause.) Passing on to the discoveries of elec tricity and magnetism and the progress of the know ledge of their operations and laws, he said—My estimable predecessor adverted last year to the fact that it was in the committee rooms of the British Association that the first step was taken towards that great magnetic organisation which has since borne so much fruit. Thereby it has been deter mined that there are periodical changes of the mag netic elements depending on the hour of the day, the season of the year, and on Intervals of about ten years. Also, that besides these regular changes there were others of a more abrupt and seemingly irregular character Humboldt's " magnetic storms"—which occur simultaneously at distant parts of the earth's surface. Major-General than whom no one has dATIP Wire in Oils Ohl q' research sine@ Halley first attempted (i to explain the change in the variation of the magnetic needle," has proved that the magnetic storms also ,observe diurnal, annual, and undecennial periods. But with what phase or phenomenon of earthly or heavenlA . bodie 3 it ma be asked, ills t o nla qet}e ileFiS 10 years to do ? The coincidence which points to, if it does not give, the answer, is one of the most remarkable, unexpected, and en couraging to patient observers. For 30 years a German astronomer, Schwabe, had vet himself the task of daily observing and recording the appearance of the sun's disc ; in which time he found that the spots paised through periodic phases of increase and decrease, the length of the period being about 10 years. A comparison of the independent evidence of the astronomer and magnetic observer has shown that the decennial magnetic period coincides both in its duration and in its epochs of maximum and minimum with the same period observed in the solar spots. After re ferring to some further steps in this science, Pro fessor Owen said that the generalisation was estab lished, and with a rapidity unexampled, regard being had to its greatness, that magnetism and electricity are but different effects of one common cause. This has proved the first step to still grander abstractions, to that which conceives the reduction of all the species of imponderable fluids of the che mistry of our student days, together with gravita tion, chemicity, and neuricity, to interchangeable modes of action of one and file same all-pervading life-essence. Referring to the experiments of Gal vani and Volta, and what had subsequently been done in the same line, the Professor continued— From the present state of neuro-electricity, it may be concluded that nerve force is not identical with electric force, but that it may be another mode of motion of the same common force ; it is certainly a polar force, and, perhaps, the highest form of polar force : " A motion which may change, but cannot die ; An image of some bright eternity." (Applause.) The learned Professor next proceeded to speak of Chemistry, and observed that the present tendency of the higher generalisations of chemistry seems to be towards a reduction of the number of those bodies which are called " elementary ;" it begins to be almost more than suspected that certain groups of So-called chemical elements are but modi fied forms of one another. Already natural pro cesses can be more economically replaced by artifi cial ones in the formation of a few organic com pounds, the " valerianic acid," for example. It is impossible to foresee to what extent chemistry may not ultimately, in the produCtion of things needful, supersede the present vital agencies of nature " by laying under contribution the accumulated forces of past ages, which would thus enable us to obtain in. a small manufactory, and in a few days, effects which can be realised from present natural agencies only when they are exerted upon vast areas of land, and through considerable periods of time." (Ap plause.) Since Niepce, Herschell, Fox, Talbot, and Daguerre founded photography, year by year some improvement is made—some advance achieved in this most subtle application and combination in photicity, electricity, chemistry, and magnetism. Last year M. Poiteven's production of plates in re lief, for the purpose of engraving by the action of light alone, was cited as the latest marvel of photo graphy. This year has witnessed photographic printing in carbon by M. Pretschi. Professor Owen continued by alluding to the application of photo graphy for obtaining views of the moon, of the planets, of scientific and other phenomena. After referring to the discoveries in electro-magnetism the lecturer continued—Remote as such profound con ceptions and subtle trains of thought seem to be from the needs of every-day life, the most astound ing of the practical augmentation of man's power has sprung out of them. Nothing might seem less promising of profit than Oersted's painfully pursued experiments, with his little magnets, voltaic pile, and bits of copper wire. Yet out of these has sprung the electric telegraph ! Oersted himself saw such an application of his convertibility of electricity into magnetism, and made arrange ments for testing that application to the instanta neous communications of signs through distances of a few miles. The resources of inventive genius have made it practicable for all distances, as we have lately seen in the submergence and working of the eleetro-magnetic cord connecting the Old and the New World of the geographers. (Applause.) On the 6th of August, 1858, the laying down of upwards of 2,000 nautical miles of the telegraphic cord, connecting Newfoundland and Ireland, was successfully completed ; and on that day a message of 31 words was transmitted in 35 minutes along sinuosities of the submerged hills and valleys form ing the bed of the vast Atlantic. (Applause.) This first message expressed " Glory to God in the highest ;on earth peace, good-will towards men." Never since the foundations of the world were laid could be more truly said, " The depths of the sea praise Him !" (Applause.) The practic ability of bringing America into electrical com munication with Europe has been demon- strated ; consequently a like power of instantaneous interchange of thought between the civilized inhabitants of every part of the globe.becomes, in my opinion, only a question of time. The benefits thence to ensue for the human race can be but ina dequately foreseen. Some results stand out more prominently . than others. (Applause.) The strides made in various branches of natural history were next passed in review. Since Bacon's day the chief steps by which natural history had advanced to the dignity of a science are associated with the names of Ray, Linnmus Jussieu, Buffon, and Cuvier. By the first two the phenomena were digested and classified according to artificial, but conveniently applicable methods—of necessity the precursors of systems more expressive of the natural affinities of plants and animals. To perfect the natural system of plants has been the great aim of botanists since Jussieu ; to obtain the same true insight into the relations of animals has stimulated the labours of zoologists since the writings of Cuvier. Three prin ciples (of the common ground of which we may ultimately obtain a clearer insight) are now recog nised to have governed the construction of animals —unity of plan, vegetative repetition, and fitness for purpose. In maintenance of this proposition the President took a wide range of illustration and proofs, from every class of living animal, and related many interesting experiments tending to throw light on the mysteries of organic life. The micro scope and microgeology were passed under notice ; then the President glanced at the geographical dis tribution of plants, with respect to which the sum of the relations rested, he said, on the assumption that each species had been created but once in time and space • and that its diffusion was the result of the law of influenced chiefly by tem-I perature and moisture. Botany, at this phase, be came intimately related to climatology. Observa tions on the geographical distr ibution of indigenous plants were generalised by dividing the horizontal range of vegetation into zones bounded by annual isothermal lines ; by classifying plants according to the regions of altitude ; and by classifying them by regions defined by the proportion of plants species peculiar to them. The modes of enun ciating the laws of the geographical dis tribution of marine animals were very analogous to those which had been applied to the vegetable kingdom, which was as diversely developed on land as was the animal kingdom in the sea. Certain horizontal areas or provinces had been characterised by the entire assemblage of animals and plants con stituting their population. The same physical con ditions were associated with a certain similarity be tween the animals of different provinces. A second mode of expressing the ascertained facts of the geo graphical distribution of marine animals was by tracts called " Homoizoic belts," bounded by cli matal lines. But the most interesting form of ex pression of the distribution of marine life was that which paralleled the perpendicular distribution of plants. Very much remained to be observed by naturalists in different parts of the globe under the guidance of these generalisations. The restrictive laws of geographical distribution seemed least ap plicable to birds, yet, like the plants and marine animals, they were similarly restricted. The laws of geographical distribution, as affecting mamma lian life, had been reduced to great exactness by observations continued since the time of Buffon. The most important extension of this branch of zoology had been due to recent researches and dis coveries of extinct species of the class mammalia. The learned professor then proceeded to remark upon the modifications of zoological ideas which had been produced by palaeontology, It would seem that the deeper we penetrated into the earth, or, in other words, the further we receded in time, the more completely were we absolved from the present laws of geographical distribution. The considera tions arising from the modifications Afßeographical distribution of particnlor forms or groups of animals warned is llow inadequate must be the phenomena connected with the present distribution of land and sea to guide to the determination of the primary ontological divisions of the earth's surface. But might they not, in aiming to define the primary zoological province of the globe, lie 4 010 1 1 44 g upon a province of knowledge 1 4 w:ald. the present capaci ties After §toinv observations on the probable causes of the extinotion of species, Professor Owen re marked that the aboriginal laws of geographical distribution of plants and animals had been modit fled from of old by geological and climatal changes ; but they had been much, mon titsiurbe_d by , mau u 4 3,3,1,t,,, globe, The varieties of ;lA4 Ind wAct Akeg aistributkon ITas then consi. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. LEEDS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. The 28th annual meeting of the British Associa tion for the Advancement of Science has fairly commenced. There has been a large influx of dis tinguished persons, and more are expected. Up to yesterday evening 1,259 tickets were taken, and the list of life members includes the following distin guished personages and members of local families : —Gen. Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., Westminster; Brown, John, F.G.S., Stanway ; Blanshard, W., Leeds ; Foster, Rev. J., Loughborough ; Bickerdike, Rev. J., Leeds ; Sopwith, T. London ; Taylor, Jas., Cul verlands •, Dr. Hamel, St. Petersburgh ; Ford, H. R., Morecambe-lodge ; Shaw, E. W., Leeds; Walker, F. J., Little Matford ; Atkinson, John, Leeds; Tempest, Col., Tunghai' ; Leather, J. Tow lerton, Leventhorpe-hall ; Fairbairn, Sir P., Leeds ; Monteagle, Lord ; Mount, Trenchard ; Hindmarsh, F., London ; Meynell, T. Y., Killingbeck-hall ; Murchison, Sir Roderick, London ; Rennie, Geo., F.R.S., London ; Herschel', Sir John F. W., F.RS., Collingwood ; Morley, George, Leeds ; Wrottesley, the Right Hon. Lord, Wrottesley-hall ; Mr. Andrew R., F.R.S., Isleworth ; Jardine, Sir W., F.R.S.E., Jardine-hall ; Earnshaw, the Rev. S., M.A., Sheffield ; Heywood, J., F.R.S., London ; Edens, J., Liverpool ; Knipe, J. A., Caldwell ; Mackenzie, the Rev. K., BOTTOWStONVIIOSS ; Bayley, G., London ; Lloyd, Rev. H., D.D., F.R.S., Dublin ; Grace, Admiral, London ; Hopkins, Mr., W. M.A., F.R.S., Cambridge; Webster, T., F.R.S., West minster; Hunter, it., F.R.S., Highgate ; Kenrick, Rev. J., M.A., York; Richardson, Sir John, C.B„ M.D., F.R.S., Lancrigg; Hare, Dr., London •, Hen nessy, Professor, F.R.S., M.R.1.A. , Dublin; Gassiot, J.P F.R.S., London ; Neisen , F. G. P., London ; Rankine, ' W. J. M., LL.D., F.R.S., Glasgow; Warrington, Robert, London ; Booth, Rev. Dr., F.R.S. •, Airey, G. 8., Royal Observatory, Green wich ; Dennis, J. C., F.R.A.S., London ; Fletcher, Isaac, F.R.S. F.R.A.S., Worthington ; Ward, N. 8., F.R.S., London ; Cairns, J. C., Trinity Col lege, Dublin ; Higgins, Rev. H., M.A., Liverpool ; Lister, Dr. J. F.G.S., Halifax ; Lister , Rev. W., Bushbury • Dean, H., Clapham ; Worthy, G. S., Bristol; Barlow, Rev. J., M.A., Secretary Royal Institution, London ; Walton, Rev. J., M.A., Nor folk ; Wright, Dr. E. P., Trinity College, Dublin ; Oldham, J. E. E., Hull ; Stoney, B. 8., M.R.1.A., Dublin ; Brewster, Sir D., D.C.L., St Andrew's ; Weddall, T. Scarborough ; Pare, W., Dublin ; Gages, A., Dublin ; Moore, A., Dublin; Brooke, E. Stockport ; Brooke, P. W., Stockport ; Childers, J. W., Cantley • Cull, R., F.S.A., London ; Gerard , H., Liverpool ; Yeates, J., F.R.G.S., Peckham; Greenwood, W., TodNtoiden ; Clarke, J., F.L.S., Saffron Walden ; Sorby, H. C., F.R.S., Sheffield ; Shaw, N., M.D., secretary Royal Geographica l So ciety, London ; Stevelly, Prof., Queen's College, Belfast; Stewart, 8., Edinburgh Thorp, Dr. D., Cheltenham ; Cole, R., London; Greene, It., M.D., Paris • INl.Tyre, W., mil, Maybole, Ayrshire; Dove, H., Glasgow ; Hincks, Rev. Leeds ; Tartt,W. M., F.R.S., Cheltenham ; Brown, John, London ; Ey ton, T. C., Evton, Salop ; Ramsay, Professor, Lon don ; Pengeliey, W., Torquay ; Henessy, J. P., London ; Cranford, John, London ; Huggon, W., Leeds; Hawkes, W., Birmingham; Strang, John, LL.D., Glasgow •, Harkness, Professor, F.R.S., Cork ; Murray, W. G. S., Glasgow ; Wright, Thos., F.S.A., London; Watts, J. King, F.R.G.S., St. 've's. FIRST GENERAL MEETING. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Yesterday evening there was a very numerous assembly of ladies and gentlemen in the spacious and handsome hall of the Town-hall, when the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., resigned the presidential chair to Professor Owen. We understand that the attendance was larger than at the meetings at Liverpool and Leamington, or indeed at any inau gural meeting of the association. The Rev. Dr. Lloyd took the chair at half-past 8 o'clock, and im mediately around him and in other parts of the room were most of the persons whose names are given in the above list. Before Professor Owen commenced his address, The Rev. Dr. LLOYD, the retiring president, briefly addressed the assembly. He said that the task he had to perform was a very simple one — namely, to resign the high trust which had been conferred upon ntn by the members of the British AS3oCatioll, and to give place to a successor whom he felt to be in every way more qualified to dis charge its duties. In looking back upon the labours of the association for the past year, it was gratify ing to him to know that the interest and the im portance of its proceedings had not lessened in any way since the time of its first formation ; small as was the share which the annual officer could have in such a result, it would be a source of deep pain to feel that the efficiency of the associative 1M LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION between LONDON and HUD DERSFIELD, MANCHESTER, and LIVERPOOL. TO LONDON, ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 25. FARES. A.M. Ist Class. 2d Class. Batley depart 9 30 Dewsbury 9 9 935 Huddersfield Marsden . 10 10 Greenfield Staley Bridge . 10 40 Manchester Stockport Liverpool Warrington London ( Euston Station) arrive about 4 45 Returning Wednesday, Sept. 29th, at 9.30 a.m., from Euston Station. FROM LONDON ON SATURDAY, OCT. 2. London (Euston Station) A.M. depart 9.30, • FARES p.m. Ist class. 2d class. 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