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 Marquis of Northampton said, he had been requested by his friend the President to propose a toast which they would have great pleasure in receiving, it was the health of those Foreign gentlemen who had favoured them by attending the Meeting. The noble Marquis passed a high eulogium on the talents and acquirements of these individuals, and on their exertions in the pursuit of science, and expressed to them the delight the Association and the Members of the College experienced in receiving them on this occasion. Mr Brunel in a very animated speech, adverted to the motto on the plate of Trinity College, ‘‘virtus vera nobilitas,''''—with this he agreed, and was convinced that the true pursuit of knowledge would lead to a moral and religious sentiment. He also alluded to the handsome manner in which the foreigners had been treated since they had been in Cambridge, and concluded by returning his best thanks for the kindness he had received. The President thought he could not have paid the distinguished foreigners a higher compliment than by requesting a man of the highest rank in the room to propose their health. He was unable to speak himself through fatigue. He was now compelled to give, in one toast, all the Scientific Institutions chartered or not chartered, of the united empire. The Royal Society stood above all the rest as the parent Society, and Mr Davies Gilbert was present as its representative. Mr Davies Gilbert in returning thanks said, that he was sure every society in the united kingdom looked with pleasure on the formation of other societies, and they could none of them feel the least jealousy of this Association, but on the contrary must wish it every success. He cordially participated in the sentiments which had been so well expressed, and which he would not at that hour occupy their time by repeating. On Saturday Professor Henslow conducted a party, consisting of between forty and fifty in number, among whom were several distinguished naturalists, on an excursion down the river, as far as Upware, and into Bottisham and Burwell Fens. Various topics of scientific interest were discussed during the excursion, and more especially the utility of establishing such a scale of colours as might be generally adopted in describing objects of natural history. The day proved fine, and the botanists were gratified by procuring several fen plants which they had not before met with in other parts of the country. Professor H. pointed out a species of Chara, which he had first observed in Bottisham fen about six years ago, and had always considered to be either a very distinct variety of C. gracilis, or not improbably a species new to Great Britain ; and Professor Agardh, who was pre- sent, pronounced the plant to be his Nitella hyalina. Among the party were Professor Agardh (of Lund), Messrs Blackwall, Brunei, Professor Burnet, Mr Curtis, Dr Daubeny, Messrs Garnons, Greenough, Jerdan, Sir C. Lemon, Messrs Selby, W. Smith, Stephens, Strickland, Trevelyan, &c. &c.