The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT

AZUSIDLIN;

.&111111.1)811N, Sire. 19.
The sectional meetings were resumed this weaning
et 11 o'alock, sad ware all naineroaaly Attended. No lees
Heemiset74llo mew were set down to be road in the
various nodose ; bat nary althea, owteg to their technical
character, ware of interest only to the scientific reader. We
weed • wake of the Istellog menet plural Interest which
were reed up to neld.ley.

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52CTION £.-ItATEINAI7CAL AND PNYSICAL BCIZNCII.
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no dna ppw Is tbk watt= to-day was a "Report a•
!b. Tim, at Natabart," which the Preridiat, atr W. R.
Rawdltaa, awl Prebwar alevellay &embalmed ea a very
able awr.

Hr. Brawls rem/ a "Report on Thunderstorms." In
11k, US thasamiama win reported la Iteglaad, with
7 men Mad and is Waled; no you tined-7 Iniuredt
km. • wag% sherstag the loselities when the storms oo-
ortal, vas Wall& From this it appeared that min
loseibles wore taws frequently visited than others. Far
twedeplin Yorbides was thickly dotted over with the marks
ladiceting theaderstortes." Mr. Symosa laid the dice
of the lightning meditator was perfect in storms. Bat,
Asa stars, poem frequently inquired as to the best form
of easelaaans. He should be glad to bear oplakosa oa that
point,
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Pecdrice Tpoitsox isiii the coodootars et Wit W. Ilearw
Harris eon test.

Mahal firmer said the'. had ewer has ea Inshore
of • vessel to tbe sterehast aryls% forsiebed with the
ma-
dmtseof air W. 8. Resets, Wag Wilted. Re wasp Itierelf,
is • seam, the vii sorpos es which the asst etparioneet was
made with that teedeoter, imolai, some thirty yea ego,
ecoannaded • moll veer& which was protected by it es the
these sesta, and to the pint of the bowsprit ; arid, &flag
eve year% riothrB logimeed to her.
Tee PNOSIDWIT embed whether Mr. Byraons had obiervei
ley ore where WINS bad been mashed. There had been eat
steseept to make easilweicee wery light—to obtain the COIF
dueller pew/ with the lea patibie weight.
Kr. Intone weld Uwe never had been a coos In while
sayttbg that teeM aol le the way of a conductor had bees
men& ; red la oevesa oases water pipes had acted es •
whey valve.
The Rev. T. Claw of Durham, remarked that ash
true were vary special of lightning, sad there-
for, very vas te rem& tedde.

Bictiox 8.-CUUIICAL SCIINCI.

Delon pree;diiii; tit. t7;;C:«;,i7:l;in Nei GI
.0401.1

liajor-General Sabine has had the keno to rsorho, by
031112111101 71 H. H.H. the Primo Consort, Presitiont, the fa-
korai sonestunration .

September 1{,1850.
"Mu Diaz Ben,-1 am easuesuded by Royal Righ-
tism the Prime Cocoon to mod you the teamed mit s:
/stew which Me Royal Ihgleses Wnaive' hew
end whisk be thinks it his duty to lay, Ihroisgb you. before
the etsmbseoaf tlis MU* Associate,* wow Is Aberdeen.
Should the ahlsnt gaud is that louse app. to them to
be see which his tit support end amigos°, of the mm-
bon sills sissolaslos, Wm royal highness will have touch
1005.
sln Waft a sa=en het with do um sf
=min yours very
"1114erms1 oka..
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" Sir,—We Us meet reepectfully to submit to your royal
highness Ms World proaptxttui of a foundation, to be
sidled ' TM Humboldt Foundation, for Physical &ism sad
?reeds, sad In doing so we also beg to ropier a request, to
which we are micoareged by the high utterest In science
shown by your royal highness on frequent occmiona.
"it is a rare hat always gratifying cirennatance Mass
Meese mallow join in the admiration of ono great man, as
her hem the are :whit Alexander von Humboldt for
may years la en ever increasing degree. In Great
Britain, also, we believe that Me idea will be welcomed of
• living monument La the spirit of Dia own world-wide
•etivit'
" Without a very general contribution, such a founde-
d.. could not dad • sphere of aaef•inra worthy of the
aims which it is to bear, nor supply any permanent re-
MUMS to those sciences which Humboldt especially culti-
vated.

"The Delilah Assodation for the Advenoement of
&boos will meet at Aberdeen neat month, under the
ezpresidency of your Royal !Besiege, and we toast that time
,with the feeling of deep regret for the loge of Hem-
• wish may be mingled that hie contemporaries
aanceget all satires should join in a gel el memorial.
If it is not considered too presumptuous, we would these-
fora oak your Royal Message to bring the poisus of the
Humboldt Fousdatios to the ksowledge of the Mash Asso-
ciation and to excite the labium of its membare Um gab-
ject. it will at once do honour to Humboldt's memory end
sated the b. meets of the foundation which tome his name
If summons British signatures should testify a participation
is the feelings of grateful remembrance which have dictated
the Wow of this memorial."
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It wisd to band ;nod a subscription hat in aid of
ihe magma esamorial.
Dr. IMMIX described a new mode of bread-making, which
1111161111 the edmirstioa of the section, and which bad been pa.
leutal by Dr. Deuglieli. By this proceas the carbonic acid is pro-
desedindopendeatly, and ouperedded to the four, which come.
moseily undergomao modification .lataTat. The carbonic acid
Ws stored in ausrdinery gasholder, and is pumped therefrom
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iisdrkal pod of water whereby the water tccomes
d7with gas. This water—ioda water, as it is coromonly
—la mixed wader manure with the fi.iw, and the re-
uniting dough losemsee view:War on manovim the pressure ;
it is the divided into loaves and baked. This rooms Is so
rapidly goes through that hs as hoar and • MU from the first
wetting of the Sew a lack al dour is made Into two-pound
imam. The •6111101.111 d thin sew mode an, ft. eloardiams ;
from the beglemlag M the end of the operation wither the
lam ear the waken foaled by the haulm het ; It madams
M the health of the wastpeople ; it is a very rapid rooms
le melds sad whim • sad ft prevents any sisterhood= of
the leer, as tkat by this moms you can me four which
would require aMmi la the stsmi
Mr. TILIMILTAX said this process we. more fitted for
lent saeabtlimeass !bap fir domestic um, mad be recoup

nailed a plan whish he hod red for may yeare—oe=ely ,
by webs nada* and and soda. A drachm of mods, by
weighß and s pound of dour, and a drachm of =Arnim
sold, by mennare, sod a pound of door also, were the gaud-
ties le engdoyed.
Dr. Dadarnr raid that It arm to °bier. ve thi.
cantina Ia regard to the profane meotioned Ms. Trevelyan,
that It Is possible the murlatie .cid might contaan wank.
la telly to Dr. Williamron,
Dr. °DUX saki it was glade certain that this Firoas• pro-
Todd the °nivel-don of March into dr:tribe.
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Professor Vocr.crex mum ed that it might be interest-
fag to the Section to know that the machlae amid is this
proms was manufactured at Reading. From the kaoehdp
be had In regard to this mode of Lakin braid, be maid 'a-
dorn ell that Dr. Odlia had maid.

Trtitmr.oott—Tisat it wee the
opinion of exile that insole, whims lakes la small qoantities,
wee not (Waterloos to the aystam—brought forth a warning
from Dr. Denbeny sod the Presulent not to put any feith
la the statement in Dr. Johnston's "Chemistry of Common
Life," that arsenic is taken by the (bigot Tyrol to improve
their °maple:ion. end that when takes cosetantly the system
Iv comes said to it, that being the MAO el the fate. Mr.
Llyeing observed that he had heard that this me of anemic
W ham told to Dr. Johnston by a pnetical Jolter, 111i10 did
sot like to maim his imposition sitar it tool been mode
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ppeees a The Composition of ThinisnWater," by Drs.
Odlia sad Dap* was neat rand.
Mr. 0. C. Poem mod Report on the Roast Pro.'
PUN and Proust Bute of Organic Chemistry," prepared by
D. Ms and hintielL The report blies wtih the year 1632
sad mainland an interesting detail of some of Um most recent
disooverim, an illnetrating the ideas which have guided
chamois et kW pore.