Lithographed signatures of the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Cambridge, June 1833, with a report of the proceedings at the public meetings during the week and an alphabetical list of the members.

  • British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Lithographed signatures of the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Cambridge, June 1833, with a report of the proceedings at the public meetings during the week and an alphabetical list of the members. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the remainder of his life he should hope to live on terms of friendship and good-will that they were among the last men whose good opinion he could bear to forfeit. Gentlemen (he added), after the long session of this morning, I have no right, nor have I the strength, to trespass on your attention any further; it therefore only remains for me to bid you from my heart adieu, and to dissolve this happy Meeting. COLD COLLATION AT TRINITY COLLEGE. As soon as the Meeting in the Senate House had dispersed, about five hundred and seventy of the Members of the Association repaired to the large hall of Trinity College, where an elegant cold collation had been prepared; the President of the Association taking the chair. The collation was given by the resident Members of the University. The dinner having concluded. Non Nobis Domine was sung by the choir. The health of the King, and the Queen and Royal Family, having been drunk. The Rev. W. V. Harcouiit rose, and said he had been present some years since in the hall of Christ Church, Oxford, when the great Sovereigns Avho had accomplished the peace of Europe were entertained there, and a most imposing sight it was; that peace, which had endured ever since, had restored the inter- course, the social and intellectual intercourse of the civilized world; and it was an imposing sight to see it, as it were, signed and sealed in England. But of all the sights he ever beheld, whether in a moral, intellectual, or social sense, whether he considered the persons collected together, or the feelings by which they were collected, the most striking sight he would not say, but that which was the most moving to him, was the sight that was now before him. Of all that had passed during this interesting week, when they had been enlightened by so many rays of instruction from so many quarters, he must say, as far as his own feelings were concerned, that which had gratified them the most, and from which he had received the greatest degree of instruction, was when he heard their admirable Pre- sident illuminate with the radiance of his powerful and well-informed intellect, subjects of the highest moral importance—moral did he say ? Let him add also of religious importance—(cheers). A friend who sat on his left hand had been reminding him of the answer of Bousset to one who asked him whether Eenelon nvait de Vesprit;'' “de Vesprit replied Bousset “a faire peur. But he would say of their President that he possessed a genius to excite both admiration and love. Of all the privileges that he had enjoyed on this occasion, and those privi- leges and enjoyments had not been small, he considered it the greatest privilege, and that which at the same time afforded the greatest gratification to his own feelings, to be called upon to give the toast of “ Prosperity to the British Asso- ciation and to couple with that toast “the health of its President Professor Sedgwick. {Loud applause.) The President rose amidst long continued cheering, and observed, that the labours of the week had so nearly exhausted him, that he found it physically im- possible to give expression to the feelings which then filled his breast. He had ventured that morning, when addressing them in the Senate House, on topics