Report of the Annual Meeting

II. Table showing the Names of Members of the British Association who have served on the Council in former years.

Acland, Sir Thomas D., Bart., F.R.S.
Acland, Professor H. W., M.D., F.R.S.
Adams, J. Couch, M.A., F.R.S.
Adamson, John, Esq., F.L.S.

Ainslie, Rev. Gilbert, D.D., Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.

Airy, G. B.,D.C.L., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal.
Alison, Professor W. P., M.D., F.R.S.E.
Ansted, Professor D. T., M.A., F.R.S.
Argyll, George Douglas, Duke of, F.R.S.
Arnott, Neil, M.D., F.R.S.

Ashburton, William Bingham, Lord, D.C.L.
Atkinson, Rt. Hon. R., Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Babbage, Charles, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Babington, C. C., Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Baily, Francis, Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Baker, Thomas Barwick Lloyd, Esq.
Balfour, Professor John H., M.D., F.R.S.
Barker, George, Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Bell, Professor Thomas, Pres. L.S., F.R.S.
Beechey, Rear-Admiral, F.R.S. (deceased).
Bengough, George, Esq.

Bentham, George, Esq., F.L.S.
Bigge, Charles, Esq.

Blakiston, Peyton, M.D., F.R.S.
Boileau, Sir John P., Bart., F.R.S.

Boyle, Rt.Hon. D., Lord Justice-Gen1. (deed).
Brady, The Rt. Hon. Maziere, M.R.I.A., Lord
Chancellor of Ireland.

Brand, William, Esq.

Breadalbane, John, Marquis of, K.T., F.R.S. Brewster, Sir David, K.H., D.C.L., LL.D.,

F.R.S., Principal of the United College of St.Salvator and St.Leonard, St. Andrews Brisbane, General Sir Thomas M., Bart., K.C.B., G.C.H., D.C.L., F.R.S. Brooke, Charles, B.A., F.R.S. Brown, Robert, D.C.L., F.R.S. (deceased). Brunel, Sir M. I., F.R.S. (deceased). Buckland, Very Rev. William, D.D., F.R.S.,

Dean of Westminster (deceased). Bute, John, Marquis of, K.T. (deceased). Carlisle, George Will. Fred., Earl of, F.R.S. Carson, Rev. Joseph, F.T.C.D.

Cathcart, Lt.-Gen., Earl of, K.C.B., F.R.S.E. Chalmers, Rev. T., D.D. (deceased). Chance, James, Esq.

Chester, John Graham, D.D., Lord Bishop of. Christie, Professor S. H., M.A., F.R.S. Clare, Peter, Esq., F.R.A.S. (deceased). Clark, Rev. Prof., M.D., F.R.S. (Cambridge.) Clark, Henry, M.D.

Clark, G. T., Esq.

Clear, William, Esq. (deceased).

Clerke, Major S., K.H., R.E., F.R.S. (deed).
Clift, William, Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Close, Very Rev. F., M.A., Dean of Carlisle.
Cobbold, John Chevalier, Esq., M.P.
Colquhoun, J. C., Esq., M.P. (deceased).
Conybeare, Very Rev. W. D., Dean of Llan-
daff (deceased).

Corrie, John, Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Crum, Walter, Esq., F.R.S.

Currie, William Wallace, Esq. (deceased).
Dalton, John, D.C.L., F.R.S. (deceased).
Daniell, Professor J. F., F.R.S. (deceased).
Dartmouth, William, Earl of, D.C.L., F.R.S.
Darwin, Charles, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Daubeny, Prof. Charles G. B., M.D., F.R.S.
Dela Beche, Sir H. T., C.B., F.R.S., Director-

Gen. Geol. Surv. United Kingdom(decd). Devonshire, William, Duke of, M.A., F.R.Ś.

Dillwyn, Lewis W., Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Drinkwater, J. E., Esq. (deceased).
Ducie, The Earl, F.R.S.

Dunraven, The Earl of, F.R.S.

Egerton, Sir P. de M. Grey, Bart.,M.P.,F.R.S. Eliot, Lord, M.P.

Ellesmere, Francis, Earl of, F.G.S. (decd). Enniskillen, William, Earl of, D.C.L., F.R.S. Estcourt, T. G. B., D.C.L. (deceased). Faraday, Professor, D.C.L., F.R.S. Fitzwilliam, The Earl, D.C.L., F.R.S. (deca). Fleming, W., M.D.

Fletcher, Bell, M.D.

Forbes, Charles, Esq. (deceased).

Forbes, Prof. Edward, F.R.S. (deceased).
Forbes, Prof. J. D., F.R.S., Sec. R.S.E.
Fox, Robert Were, Esq., F.R.S.
Frost, Charles, F.S.A.

Gassiot, John P., Esq., F.R.S.

Gilbert, Davies, D.C.L., F.R.S. (deceased).
Graham, T., M.A., F.R.S., Master of the Mint.
Gray, John E., Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S.
Gray, Jonathan, Esq. (deceased).
Gray, William, Esq., F.G.S.

Green, Prof. Joseph Henry, D.C.L., F.R.S.
Greenough, G. B., Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Griffith, Sir R. Griffith, Bt., LL.D., M.R.I.A.
Grove, W. R., Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Hallam, Henry, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Hamilton, W. J., Esq., F.R.S., For. Sec. G.S.
Hamilton, Sir Wm. R., LL.D., Astronomer

Royal of Ireland, M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S.
Harcourt, Rev. Wm. Vernon, M.A., F.R.S.
Hardwicke, Charles Philip, Earl of, F.R.S.
Harford, J. S., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Harris, Sir W. Snow, F.R.S.
Harrowby, The Earl of, F.R.S.

Hatfeild, William, Esq., F.G.S. (deceased). Henry, W. C., M.D., F.R.S. [Col., Belfast. Henry, Rev. P. S., D.D., President of Queen's Henslow, Rev. Professor, M.A., F.L.S. Herbert, Hon. and Very Rev. Wm., LL.D.,

F.L.S., Dean of Manchester (dec1).
Herschel, Sir John F.W., Bart.,D.C.L., F.R.S.
Heywood, Sir Benjamin, Bart., F.R.S.
Heywood, James, Esq., F.R.S.
Hill, Rev. Edward, M.A., F.G.S.
Hincks, Rev. Edward, D.D., M.R.I.A.
Hinds, S., D.D., late Lord Bishop of Norwich.
Hodgkin, Thomas, M.D.

Hodgkinson, Professor Eaton, F.R.S.
Hodgson, Joseph, Esq., F.R.S.

Hooker, Sir William J., LL.D., F.R.S.
Hope, Rev. F. W., M.A., F.R.S.
Hopkins, William, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Horner, Leonard, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Hovenden, V. F., Esq., M.A.
Hutton, Robert, Esq., F.G.S.
Hutton, William, Esq., F.G.S.

Ibbetson, Capt.L.L.Boscawen, K.R.E., F.G.S.
Inglis, Sir R. H., Bart., D.C.L., M.P., (decd).
Jameson, Professor R., F.R.S. (deceased).
Jardine, Sir William, Bart., F.R.S.E.
Jeffreys, John Gwyn, Esq., F.R.S.
Jenyns, Rev. Leonard, F.L.S.
Jerrard, H. B., Esq.

Johnston, Right Hon. William, late Lord
Provost of Edinburgh.

Johnston, Prof. J. F. W., M.A., F.R.S. (decd).
Keleher, William, Esq. (deceased).
Kelland, Rev. Professor P., M.A.
Kildare, The Marquis of.

Lansdowne, Hen., Marquis of, D.C.L.,F.R.S.
Larcom, Lt.-Colonel, R.E., LL.D., F.R.S.
Lardner. Rev. Dr.

Lassell, William, Esq., F.R.S. L. & E.
Latham, R. G., M.D., F.R.S.

Lee, Very Rev. John, D.D., F.R.S.E., Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Lee, Robert, M.D., F.R.S.

Lefevre, Right Hon. Charles Shaw, late
Speaker of the House of Commons.
Leon, Sir Charles, Bart., F.R.S.
Liddell. Andrew, Esq. (deceased).
Lindley, Professor John, Ph.D., F.R.S.
Listowel. The Earl of. [Dublin (dec).
Lloyd, Rev. B., D.D., Provost of Trin. Coll.
Lloyd, Rev. H., D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E.,
Londesborough, Lord, F.R.S.

Lubbock, Sir John W., Bart., M.A., F.R.S.
Luby, Rev. Thomas.

Lyell, Sir Charles, M.A., F.R.S. MacCullagh, Prof., D.C.L., M.R.I.A. (dead). MacDonnell, Rev. R., D.D., M.R.I.A., Pro

vost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Macfarlane, The Very Rev. Principal. (deca).
MacLeay, William Sharp, Esq., F.L.S.
MacNeill, Professor Sir John, F.R.S.
Malahide, The Lord Talbot de.
Malcolm, Vice-Ad. Sir Charles, K.C.B. (deca).
Maltby, Edward, D.D., F.R.S., late Lord
Bishop of Durham.

Manchester, J. P. Lee, D.D., Lord Bishop of.
Meynell. Thomas, Esq., F.L.S.
Middleton, Sir William F. F., Bart.
Miller, Professor W. A., M.D., F.R.S.
Miller, Professor W. H., M.A., F R.S.
Moillet, J. D., Esq. (deceased).

Milnes, R. Monckton, Esq., D.C.L., M.P.
Moggridge, Matthew, Esq.

Moody, J. Sadleir, Esq.

Moody, T. H. C., Esq.

Moody, T. F., Esq.

Morley, The Earl of.

Moseley, Rev. Henry, M.A., F.R.S.
Mount-Edgecumbe, Ernest Augustus, Earl of.
Murchison, Sir Roderick I.,G.C. St.S., F.R.S.
Neill, Patrick, M.D., F.R.S.E.
Nicol, D., M.D.

Nicol, Rev. J. P., LL.D.

Northampton. Spencer Joshua Alwyne, Marquis of, V.P.R.S. (deceased). Northumberland, Hugh, Duke of, K.G.,M.A., F.R.S. (deceased).

Ormerod. G. W., Esq., M.A., F.G.S. Orpen, Thomas Herbert, M.D. (deceased). Orpen, John H., LL.D.

Osler, Follett, Esq., F.R.S.

Owen, Professor Richd.,M.D., D.C.L.,F.R.S.
Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Lord
Bishop of, F.R.S., F.G.S.
Palmerston, Viscount, G.C.B., M.P.
Peacock, Very Rev.G.,D.D., DeanofEly, F.R.S.
Peel, Rt. Hon.Sir R.,Bart.,M.P.,D.C.L.(decd).
Pendarves, E., Esq., F.R.S.

Phillips, Professor John, M.A., LL.D.,F.R.S.
Pigott, The Rt. Hon. D. R., M.R.I.A., Lord

Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland.

Porter, G. R., Esq. (deceased).
Powell, Rev. Professor, M.A., F.R.S.
Prichard, J. C., M.D., F.R.S. (deceased).
Ramsay, Professor William, M.A.

Reid, Maj.-Gen. Sir W., K.C.B., R.E., F.R.S.
Rendlesham, Rt. Hon. Lord, M.P.
Rennie, George, Esq., F.R.S.

Richardson, Sir John, M.D., C.B., F.R.S. Ritchie, Rev. Prof., LL.D., F.R.S. (decd). Robinson, Rev. J., D.D.

Robinson, Rev. T. R., D.D., F.R.A.S.
Robison, Sir John, Sec.R.S.Edin. (deceased).
Roche, James, Esq.

Roget, Peter Mark, M.D., F.R.S.
Ronalds, Francis, F.R.S.

Rosebery, The Earl of, K.T., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Ross, Rear-Ad. Sir J. C., R.N., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Rosse, Wm., Earl of, M.A., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.
Royle, Professor John F., M.D., F.R.S.
Russell, James, Esq. (deceased).
Russell, J. Scott, Esq., F.R.S. [V.P.R.S.
Sabine, Maj.-Gen., R.A., D.C.L., Treas. &
Sanders, William, Esq., F.G.S.
Scoresby, Rev. W., D.D., F.R.S. (deceased).
Sedgwick, Rev. Prof. Adam, M.A., F.R.S.
Selby, Prideaux John, Esq., F.R.S.E.
Sharpey, Professor, M.D., Sec.R.S.
Smith, Lieut.-Colonel C. Hamilton, F.R.S.
Smith, James, F.R.S. L. & E.
Spence, William, Esq., F.R.S.
Stanley, Edward, D.D., F.R.S., late Lord
Bishop of Norwich (deceased).
Staunton, Sir G. T., Bt., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S.
St. David's, C.Thirlwall, D.D., Lord Bishop of.
Stevelly, Professor John, LL.D.
Stokes, Professor G. G., Sec.R.S.
Strang, John, Esq., LL.D.

Strickland, Hugh E., Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Sykes, Colonel W. H., M.P., F.R.S.
Symonds, B. P., D.D., Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Oxford.

Talbot, W. H. Fox, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Tayler, Rev. John James, B.A.
Taylor, John, Esq., F.R.S.

Taylor, Richard, Esq., F.G.S.

Thompson, William, Esq., F.L.S. (deceased).

Thomson, Professor William, M.A., F.R.S.

Tindal, Captain, R.N.

Tite, William, Esq., M.P., F.R.S.

Tod, James, Esq., F.R.S.E.

Tooke, Thomas, F.R.S. (deceased).
Traill, J. S., M.D. (deceased).

Turner, Edward, M.D., F.R.S. (deceased).
Turner, Samuel, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. (decd).
Turner, Rev. W.

Tyndall, Professor, F.R.S.

Vigors, N. A., D.C.L., F.L.S. (deceased).
Vivian, J. H., M.P., F.R.S. (deceased).

Walker, James, Esq., F.R.S.

Walker, Joseph N., Esq., F.G.S.

Walker, Rev. Professor Robert, M.A., F.R.S.

Warburton, Henry, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.
Washington, Captain, R.N., F.R.S.
Webster, Thomas, M.A., F.R.S.

West, William, Esq., F.R.S. (deceased).
Western, Thomas Burch, Esq.

Wharncliffe, John Stuart, Lord, F.R.S.
Wheatstone, Professor Charles, F.R.S.
Whewell, Rev. William, D.D., F.R.S., Master

of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Williams, Prof. Charles J. B., M.Ď., F.R.S.
Willis, Rev. Professor Robert, M.A., F.R.S.
Wills, William, Esq., F.G.S.
Winchester, John, Marquis of.

Woollcombe, Henry, Esq., F.S.A. (deceased).
Wrottesley, John, Lord, M.A., Pres.R.S.
Yarborough, The Earl of, D.C.L.
Yarrell, William, Esq., F.L.S. (deceased).
Yates, James, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.

Yates, J. B., Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. (decd).

TRUSTEES (PERMANENT).

SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. The Very Rev. GEORGE Peacock, D.D., Dean JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., F.R.S. of Ely, F.R.S.

PRESIDENT.

The REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., V.P.R.I.A.,
Trinity College, Dublin.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

The Rt. Hon. the LORD MAYOR of Dublin.
The PROVOST of Trinity College, Dublin.
The MARQUIS OF KILDARE.

The LORD TALbot de Malahide.
The LORD CHANCELLOR of Ireland.
The LORD CHIEF BARON, Dublin.

Sir WILLIAM R. HAMILTON, LL.D., F.R.A.S.,
Astronomer Royal of Ireland.

Lt.-Colonel LARCOM, R.E., LL.D., F.R.S.
Sir RICHARD J. GRIFFITH, Bart., LL.D.,
M.R.I.A., F.R.S.E., F.G.S.

PRESIDENT ELECT.

RICHARD OWEN, M.D., D.C.L., V.P.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.,
Superintendent of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum.
VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT.

The LORD MONTEAGLE, F.R.S.
The LORD VISCOUNT GODERICH, M.P.,
F.R.G.S.

The Rt. Hon. M. T. BAINES, M.A., M.P.
Sir PHILIP DE M. GREY EGERTON, Bart.,
M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S.

The Rev. WILLIAM WHEWELL, D.D., F.R.S.,
Hon. M.R.I.A., F.G.S., F.R.A.S., Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge.

JAMES GARTH MARSHALL, Esq., M.A.,
F.G.S.

R. MONCKTON MILNES, Esq., D.C.L., M.P.
LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT LEEDS.
The Rev. THOMAS HINCKS, B.A., 6 Woodsley Terrace, Leeds.
WILLIAM SYKES WARD, Esq., F.C.S., Claypit House, Leeds.
THOMAS WILSON, Esq., M.A., Crimbles House, Leeds.
LOCAL TREASURERS FOR THE MEETING AT LEEDS.

ARTHUR LUPTON, Esq., Leeds.

JOHN METCALFE SMITH, Esq., Leeds.

ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
LYELL, Sir C., D.C.L., F.R.S.
MILLER, Prof. W. A., M.D.,
F.R.S.

ADAMS, J. C., D.C.L., F.R.S.
BELL, Prof., Pres. L.S., F.R.S.
DARWIN, CHARLES, F.R.S.
FITZROY, Rear Admiral, F.R.S.
GASSIOT, JOHN P., F.R.S.
GROVE, WILLIAM R., F.R.S.
HORNER, LEONARD, F.R.S.
HUTTON, ROBERT, F.G.S.
LATHAM, R. G., M.D., F.R.S.

RENNIE, GEORGE, F.R.S.
RUSSELL, J. S., F.R.S.
SHARPEY, Professor, Sec. R.S.

PORTLOCK, Lt.-Colonel, R.E., STOKES, Professor, Sec.R.S.

F.R.S.

PRICE, Rev. Prof., F.R.S.
RAWLINSON, Colonel Sir H.C.,
K.C.B., F.R.S.

WALKER, Rev. Prof., F.R.S.
WEBSTER, THOMAS, F.R.S.
WROTTESLEY, Lord, Pres. R.S.
YATES, JAMES, M.A., F.R.S.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.

The President and President Elect, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the General and Assistant-General Secretaries, the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presidents of former years, viz. Rev. Professor Sedgwick. Sir Thomas M. Brisbane. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Duke of Devonshire. Rev. W. V. Harcourt. The Marquis of Breadalbane. Rev. Dr. Whewell. The Earl of Rosse. The Dean of Ely. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. Sir Roderick I. Murchison. The Rev. Dr. Robinson. Sir David Brewster. G. B. Airy, Esq., the Astronomer Royal. General Sabine. William Hopkins, Esq., F.R.S. The Earl of Harrowby. The Duke of Argyll. Professor Daubeny, M.D.

GENERAL SECRETARY.

MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD SABINE, R.A., Treas. & V.P.R.S., F. R.A.S.,
13 Ashley Place, Westminster.

ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY.

JOHN PHILLIPS, Esq., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Pres.G.S., Reader in Geology in the University
of Oxford; Magdalen Bridge, Oxford.
GENERAL TREASURER.

JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., F.R.S., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames Street, London.
LOCAL TREASURERS.

William Gray, Esq., F.G.S., York.

C. C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Cambridge.
William Brand, Esq., Edinburgh.
John H. Orpen, LL.D., Dublin.
William Sanders, Esq., F.G.S., Bristol.
Robert M'Andrew, Esq., F.R.S., Liverpool.
W. R. Wills, Esq., Birmingham.

Edwin Lankester, M.D.

Professor Ramsay, M.A., Glasgow.
Robert P. Greg, Esq., F.G.S., Manchester.
John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S., Swansea.
J. B. Alexander, Esq., Ipswich.
Robert Patterson, Esq., M.R.I.A., Belfast.
Edmund Smith, Esq., Hull.

Richard Beamish, Esq., F.R.S., Cheltenham.

AUDITORS.
James Yates, Esq.

Dr. Norton Shaw.

OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE DUBLIN MEETING.

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

President.-Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-J. C. Adams, F.R.S.; Rev. Professor Graves, Sec. R.I.A. ; Sir W. R. Hamilton, LL.D., M.R.I.A.; Rev. George Salmon, D.D., M.R.I.A.; Rev. W. Whewell, D.D., F.R.S.; Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society. Secretaries.—Professor Curtis, A.M; Professor Hennessy, M.R.I.A.; P. A. Ninnis, B.A.; W. J. Macquorn Rankine, F.R.S.; Professor Stevelly, LL.D. SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY, INCLUDING THEIR APPLICATIONS TO AGRICULTURE AND THE ARTS.

President.-Professor Apjohn, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor T. Andrews, M.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Professor E. Davy, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Rev. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S.; Professor W. A. Miller, M.D., F.R.S.; Professor G. Wilson, M.D., F.R.S.E.

Secretaries.-Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S.; Professor W. K. Sullivan, M.R.I.A.; Dr. E. W. Davy, M.R.I.A.

SECTION C.-GEOLOGY.

President.-The Lord Talbot de Malahide, President of the Geological Society of

Dublin.

Vice-Presidents.—Richard Griffith, LL.D.; Professor Haughton, M.R.I.A., F.G.S.; J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Thomas Oldham, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.

Secretaries.-Professor Harkness, F.R.S.; Gilbert Sanders, M.R.I.A.; Robert H. Scott, Esq.

SECTION D.-ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, INCLUDING PHYSIOLOGY.

President.-Professor William Henry Harvey, M.D., M.R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-Professor G.J.Allman, M.D., F.R.S.,M.R.I.A,; Professor C.G. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S.; A. H. Halliday, M.R.I.A., F.L.S.; Professor Robert Harrison, M. D., M.R.I.A.; W. Ogilby, F.L.S., M.R.I.A.; Sir John Richardson, F.R.S.

Secretaries.-Professor John R. Kinahan, M.B., M.R.I.A.; Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S.; Robert Patterson, M.R.I.A.; William Edward Steele, M.D.

SUB-SECTION D.-PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE.

President.-Robert Harrison, M.D., M.R.I.A., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, T.C.D.

Vice-Presidents.-Sir H. Marsh, Bart.,M.R.I.A.; Professor Hugh Carlile, M.R.I.A.; Professor F. C. Faye, Christiania; Dr. Jacob; Dr. Laycock, Professor of Practice of Medicine, University of Edinburgh; Sir Philip Crampton, Bart., F.R.S., M.R.I.A. Secretaries.-Robert D. Lyons, M.B., M.R.I.A.; Professor Redfern.

SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY.

President.—Rev. James Henthorn Todd, D.D., Pres. R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-Major-General Chesney, R.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.; John Crawford, F.R.G.S.; Rear-Admiral R. FitzRoy, F.R.S.; Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D.; Rev. Charles Wm. Wall, D.D., Vice Provost T.C.D., M.R.I.A.; Wm. R. Wilde, M.R.I.A. Secretaries.-Richard Cull, F.S.A.; Samuel Ferguson, M.R.I.A.; Richard R. Madden, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng.; Dr. Norton Shaw, Sec. R.G.S.

SECTION F.-ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS.

President. The Archbishop of Dublin, M.R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-Lord Monteagle, F.R.S.; Edwin Chadwick,C.B.; The Recorder of Birmingham; James A. Lawson, Q.C.,LL.D., M.R.I.A.; Edward Baines, Esq.; John Strang, LL.D.; Wm. Donnelly, LL.D.; F. G. P. Neison, F.S.S.; James R. Napier. Secretaries. William Newmarch, F.S.S.; Professor Cairnes, M.R.I.A.; Henry Dix Hutton, LL.B.

SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE.

President.-The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.

Vice-Presidents.-George Rennie, F.R.S.; Robert Mallet, M. Inst. C.E., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; Sir John Macneill, F.R.S., M.R.I.A.; John Scott Russell, F.R.S.; William Dargan, M.R.I.A.

Secretaries.-James Thompson, C.E.; William T. Doyne, M. Inst. C.E.; Henry Wright; Professor Downing, LL.D., M.R.I.A.; Alexander Tate, Secretary Inst. C.E.Í.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

Professor Agassiz, Cambridge, chusetts.

M. Babinet, Paris.

Dr. A. D. Bache, Washington.
Professor Balzani, Kazan.
Barth, Dr.

Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S.
M. Boutigny (d'Evreux).
Professor Braschmann, Moscow.
Chevalier Bunsen, Heidelberg.
Dr. Ferdinand Cohn, Breslau.
M. Antoine d'Abbadie.
M. De la Rive, Geneva.
Professor Dove, Berlin.
Professor Dumas, Paris.
Dr. J. Milne-Edwards, Paris.
Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin.
Dr. Eisenlohr, Carlsruhe.
Professor Encke, Berlin.
Dr. A. Erman, Berlin.
Professor Esmark, Christiania.

Massa- | M. Le Verrier, Paris.

Baron von Liebig, Munich.
Baron de Sélys-Longchamps, Liège.
Professor Loomis, New York.
Professor Gustav Magnus, Berlin.
Professor Matteucci, Pisa.

Professor von Middendorff, St. Petersburg.
M. l'Abbé Moigno, Paris.
Professor M. Morren, Liège.
Professor Nilsson, Sweden.
Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland.
M. E. Peligot, Paris.
Viscenza Pisani, Florence.
Gustave Plaar, Strasburg.
Chevalier Plana, Turin.
Professor Plücker, Bonn.
M. Constant Prévost, Paris.
M. Quetelet, Brussels.
Prof. Retzius, Stockholm.
Professor C. Ritter, Berlin.
Professor H. D. Rogers, Boston, U.S.
Professor W. B. Rogers, Boston, U.S.
Professor H. Rose, Berlin.
Herman Schlagintweit, Berlin.
Robert Schlagintweit, Berlin.
Baron Senftenberg, Bohemia.
Dr. Siljestrom, Stockholm.
M. Struvè, Pulkowa.

Dr. Svanberg, Stockholm.
M. Pierre Tchihatchef.

Dr. Van der Hoeven, Leyden.

Baron Sartorius von Waltershausen,
Göttingen.

Professor Wartmann, Geneva.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AS PRESENTED TO THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT DUBLIN, AUGUST 26тн, 1857.

I. With reference to the subjects referred to the Council by the General Committee at Cheltenham, the Council have to report as follows:

a. The General Committee directed that copies of the two last Reports of the Parliamentary Committee should be transmitted to each Member of the General Committee, with a request that opinions might be expressed on the important subject, "Whether any measures could be adopted by the Government or Parliament that would improve the position of Science and its cultivators;" and that such opinions should be forwarded for the consideration of the Council before the 20th of September, 1856. This direction having been complied with, and a considerable number of letters expressing the opinions of individual Members of the General Committee having been received, the Council requested the Assistant-General Secretary to prepare a digest, and to make such an arrangement of the communications themselves as might best facilitate their full consideration at a Special Meeting of the Council in January, 1857. At this meeting, Lord Wrottesley, President of the Royal Society, being one of the Members

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