New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-15
SCIENCE ABROAD.
HUXLEY AND TYNDALL-THE METEOROLOGICAL
SOCIETY.

visitors are at times honored on their departure from
This TOWN. In this the cup was given Oy Mr. MVor'
whose statue stands in St. Georges Hall The oo"l mas
,en made out Of wood taken from Prince Ruperts COT
tara tenement which served as His highneSss mead
quarters during the siege of Liverpool The bowl which
il called a Mazer bowl" ancient kind of family
drinking-bowl. when this Association visited Lverpoo
In s5t its members and associates amounted to 1920
This wear they have been ISIS; representing receipts
g2O96 OF which 1910 were received from ladies'
Tho characteristic Of the Liverpool meeting of 1870 has
been that OF the emancipation Of science from theology
Dr. Hooker the first President who asserted It's III
dependence. But Prof Huxley had acquired a more
terrible name, and his elevation to the primary OF
science in England REGARDED with CONSERVATION
The Guardian the chief Church Of England organ CON
fesses il breathes freely that Prof Huxley has
spoken aud has pointed scientific mtraileuse at the
Bishops.
TyndaI followed Huxley with a splendid address on
the scientific Uses OF the Imagination" Its proper
title was the 81 Scientific Uses Of Courage" Huxley
looks facts in their relation TO life, and with
clear and steady gaze all they are and succeeds in
placing them in that light in which the public them
with viyidness which never leaves the memory. To
accomplish this Huxley every word which has con-
spicuousneSs On the other hand, Prof Tynda, being
Irsh-0f race whom il sometimes seems God has en-
lowed with nriyaled powers OF speech In lieu OF all
other gts-is greater rhetorcian. But in Tyndalls
case speech really but instrument by which great
gifts are communicated to the world. When his audi
snce were painting with CONSERVATION at what he had
said he put the question, "shall 60 Oni This which
have said not the end OF the speculative mind am
willing to end, but ready to proceed" Silence spread
itself the wondering hall. The Hon. Arthur Kin
nard II. p who makes speeches in Parliament no one
listen do and out of 1t no one can listen TO-
calamity hut feeby cheered, and vigorously reen
forced by Herbert Spencer and DR.. Bowrng At length
the ladies' who always excel in the courage Of curiosity
bestowed gentle and seductive applause, which the Pro
lessor could not resist.
Huxley had told them Of the looming man." they
wanted know where he coming from or going TO-
Tyndall, whose father, when dying gave to him the
noble advice Of woosey Cromwell " Be just and fear
not" acts up than the injunction and is frank
and fears not said at The which proves
hypothesis of natural evolution is slow and secular
For what are and essencei Strip naked and
You stand face TO face with the notion that not alone the
more ignobe forms Of animalcular life not alone the
nOber forms OF the horse and lion, not alone
the exquisite and wonderful mechanism Of the
human body, but the human mind itself-emotion,
intellect, will, and all their phenOmena-were
once latent in fiery cloud. All our philosophy,
all our poetry all our science all our art-PlaO, Shake
speare, Newton and Raphae-are potential in the fires
OF the sun" The effect Of this passage in Tyndals best
STYLE II he can be said to have best whoi never mean
poor in expression and who is distinguished among
scientific discoveries in instinctiyely wedding fitting
to noble thought, must leave you to imagine.
Though the text OF the Professors address in his
hands, he seldom referred to it, He needed his but
illustrate his speech. One to whom particle of dust
great enough for discourse to which the world has
been delighted to lisen has natural resources which
fail him. But Tyndall had been brought from the
Alps too and did not read with the deliberate ar
OF Huxley; but every one heard the words "An ou
philosophy all poetry, all science. all our art
Plato. Shakespeare, Newton, and Raphaeare potenta
figures in the fires OF the SUM-
Among the visitors here is Mr.. Arthur Trevelyan OF
TynehOm, magistrate and positive philosopher of a
very advanced school, and though himself landed pro
prietor in the heart OF those MidLothians, in a
country too where the COnederacy found its maddest
supporters this resOlute Justice Of the Peace keeps
terms with it, Mr.. Trevelyan has issued counter
blast against tobacco which King James himself might
envy not less pronounced against all COnfed
crate bOndhoders." Armed with quantity Of these, he
paId a visit to Mr Lairds works at Birkenhead and
distributed personally the interesting document to the
workmen who built the Alabama, many Of whom read it
agreeingly Mr. Tevelyan is the brother OF Sir Walter
Tevelyan Bart the welknown Qn AInerica) President
of the Great Temperance Alliance and uncle TO the late
Lord Of the Admiralty, Mr. Otto Trevelyan, NJ. p
The Brown Museum-the handsome well-built edfce
standing in sight Of st. Georges Halls enriched by
store of natural marves of a very high order Never
have specimens of natural history been preserved with
such costly taste. The whole building the contents and
library also, all the property Of the working
class who read and look at everything free The very
cases I'm which many articles contained worth
Journey to The building was given, at cost Of
$4,000, by merchant, william Brown. Liverpool has
many noble buildings; the Town Hall surpasses all
others in this country, and chiefly in this that where
land is costly stands in splendor of space. En-
gland becoming crowded that space itself work
OF art Of the rarest kind In this spot INTERPRETATION,
hotel and town hail, and are alike adorned by
II. You have in America many free and ample public
institutions accessible to the people Our best is the
Brown Museum, which was the recepuOn-room of the
Assocation and we received cards and corteses amid
statues OF Venus that might craze philosopher and
figures Of grace and strength which no modern phloso-
The Anthropoogcal Society, founded by the late DR..
Hunt, has not yet obtained section at the British Asso
American war; 1t strong on the physical disquat
cations Of the and at the Newcastle meetings
the members came TO be called the Confederate apollo
gsts Mr. John Fraser Of Liverpool, dsting uished
phrenoogst and anthropologist Is the ablest local
representative here Of the advanced claims Of anthrO
Of mans origin and ethnoorca traits are doubtless dis
turbng u the conservatives of science in the British
Association II is asserted that the British Association
all the papers his society were to read and submitted
them TO the Executive Of the Association the condi
refused them TO read them they should returned
DIR. Hunt The Executive refused the section and kept
the papers so that Dr. Hunt should not do he
did al Dundee, take a Hall and open an in
dependent section, and read them TO whomsOever
should appear 10 hear them. The excitement AT being
thus checkmated brought on brain fever, which killed
Nr John Evans delivered an able address In the Elmo
logical Section this session on the province that study
which seeks unfold the origin antiquity OF man
49, Sir Rnderick MurchsiOn one of The fon1dsTs ~ Ho
British Association appears enthusiastic he was 40
wears ago Dr. LiyingsOne's fate is still his avorite
Theme. Mr. MOffatt, Dr.. LiyingstOnes fatherin-law
alter SO years labor as a missionary in Africa,
l. also present, making short though forbidden
speeches as his strength is not great The
venerable missionary must have caught in
Africa the spirit Of European progress from his
ilusfrious son-n-law, or he would pre-
cent himself as figure in a section which, in
the insurgent words of Huxley, q" refuses 10 de
grade Nature to the level OF primitive Judaism, and
protests against pouring the new wine OF Science into
it, old bottles" In this department Dr. Brown Sequard
read two papers, the apparent transmission OF alb
normal conditions due accidental causes ana on va
rous alterations of nutrition due 90 nervous Influence