New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-07
THE BRITISH SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.

BALDfS CURIOSITY CONCERNING T-sIR
JOHN BowRING-pROF. HUXLEYS CONFLICr
WITH THE EXETER CLERGY DEMOCRACY
| OF scIENCE-THE NEW PRESIDENT = MR.
| MAGALL's SOLAR CAMERA.
IRON oCR OWN CORRESPONDENTS
EXETER Aug. 23-1his year, the British Associas
ton for the Advancement of Science meets in Exeter
This science society still drags its l5-syllable mama
| from city to city, The busy age still bears thu
burden along. Golden said the commercial traveller
was obliged TO give up leathern breeches when rail,
| ways were invented The train was off before tha
traveller could get them on and hence he took refugs
in pantaloons. The British Association got into
leather breeches 30 years ago, when science was in
the hedgehog state-prickly and sulky. mot that
to assert that it ever bore the physical pre-
sentiment of hedgehog in breeches that being q
development Prof. Huxley has not yet traeedl
What do mean TO say is that the Associations
having tackled to itself long name when sci-
ence had little else TO do still bangles tina
prOtracted appendage like l0ng-tailed, scientific
monkey; and the attritiOn of thirtynIne years has
not off single articulation from the Alexan-
drine joint Science nurtures its chief peripatetid
professors in London and the trip to Exeter Vest
ward no." is down the placid broad gauge line, thu
Great Western, into a sunny country, where the
harvest is ripe the meadows broad the trees fat and
the cream celestial-al attractions which tell upon
philosophers. In the North the trees are given ia
leanness the grass is attenuated, tue milk ceruean
and atmosphere Of subterranean e. The votaries or
science, however adventurous prefer the peasanter
sphere in which to attempt their professional flights
The of Devon, of which Exeter is the capital
exceeds all of Great Britain elsewhere in the
production of this commodity, in richness and eOn-
slstence-not moral consistence, but that ripper and
material cOnsistence which presents itself in dainty
layers and of tint and flavor unsurpassed In the
moral world. Before the traveller has proceeded fan
down the Great Western line, no knows where he ia
by the quality of the cream. At Swindon it became
more plentiful than elsewhere in England At
Bristol it is prevalent and somewhat richer IL YOU
fall into good hands. But at Exeter you first see
signs of being in the Land of Promise. Here the
cts talk of "DevOnshire cream" They know its
virtues and are proud of being able to call atten-
ton to distinction of their city older than the
Crown and savory and moro available possession
than royalty. Here you find the cream of the dis
trict a tangible and tempting thing 1t has not
the true thickness of the deeper lower down
Devon manufacture, and it is somewhat light i'll
color. 1t was in Exeter, and contemplating doubt
not, this special product that that memorable
apostrophe occurred 10 Coeridgo twho was given to
wander this wayl which no afterward applied to
Christabel:
1t is however, when You penetrate further intothd
heaven-fa favored countryto Torquay, where invalids
do wisely congregate-to Plympton and Plymouth.
that you enter the true GREENLAND. Its abnnd-
ance is miracle; its clothed consistency blessing
its golden hue thing of delight its flavor unforget-
able; 1t amounts to the satisfaction OF sixth sense
who came to you from Plymouth, was their Devon-
shire cream. The happiest sect this eountry-Eng-'
oh [in@ Of EnSland never travelled unless they had
to d sht else Sc they had built Windsor Castle ID De-
view, but he died at Worcester the way. ea.ing
lampreys. The very fish were too rich for him on
1t must have been at Plymouth where Julius Cesar
first landed. and, tasting the cream determined ia
annex IT,. 10 must have been on the Deyonshire
converted the Saxon forefathers to Chris,
tianty He doubtless felt that a., people
s1asst sU ar appanage to the monasc table
been William the tonqueror. would have made M
Domesday Book would have had Cream Book.
river its crime its mortality its coal beds.
it's mineral wealth. its geological strata-which SO
marked down the qualities of its cream and award
royal privileges TO counties producing the brownes1
and richest Did not thus get at the civilization lh Of
near TO it, Tn, Bishop of Exeter, who now wears
the mtre is more than 90 years old. When DR..
ately have borne was first promoted to this See ot
Cream he vas consumptive with Greek translationS
and poi cal hh ~ sa
this c. " Mr.. Gladstone has just had bill
passed ,ough Parliament to enable him to resign.
fuses either to die yacate: The longevity Of the
right reverend parnpheteer is ascrDed TO the cream
This is called Sir John Bowrng's meeting Of the
British AssocatlCl. For | know not how many
years Sir John Eas offered to the wandering phoso-
pliers tho hosp atty " Exeter, where he resides.
But as other towns have competed for the distinc-
ton of entertaining them, the visit OF the Ass9ca-
ton has been averted. The emnence % Sir John
dplOmatst O pc tician, and one OF the most active
promoters of eyeJ form OF progress-poltlca sclen-
u rG But Sir JOAN had won the day before had
he used the argument which the good genius OF the
county placed at hisdsposal. He should have taken
TO the Council Chamber of the British Association
can of Devonsare cream given the Council
breakfast tempered by that seductive condiment,
and the decision in favor of Exeter had been prompt
Was in the Isle of Wight and Gen. Garbaldi was so-
journlng there, Sir John gave me commission to
offer the General the use OF his house az ann;nn
would he do Exeter the favor of visiting the ahclenI
city. estimated the allurements OF CIaiemone ~
my own way. spoke much OF 1t; more on oir JONI
The General agreed to 60 believe to this day ID
was the cream which decided him, th34ugn ne never
owned it, and assigned as his reasons MS respect
yatsr ;s an antique pleasant, prosperous and
now well-dressed city, have never seen the ass9-
n;ot;o,, IN anv Mace where so many weldressed,
ciation "a amy notwithstanding persons paraded tha
strsets Tho very flags, which hang out all tho
Sunday. notwithstanding the sahtrness Oh tue elty'
r;cb sunsets which have come back to us this week,
philosophy wears an air of graceful gayety 1t was
n this neighborhood where the great explorer Capt.
speke met his DEATH during the visit of the Assoca
tion to Bath. Ii would have gladdened all hearts
and made the fortune of the 1869 meeting had DIR.
turned up i!
There is no new lion here-no great discovery to
announce. The chief excitement Of the week mas
been batting of Prof, Huxley by few clereisas;
But they had not mastered their subject and had
mistaken their adversary. No man n all tns ASso
citation is better able to defend himself or better
posed to do it, He is perfectly master Of his subject
knows a