The Proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, held in Dublin in August 1835, is a quarto pamphlet, which will tell the curious in such matters much about the Dublin doings—how some lectured, some talked, and all dined ; besides giving plans of that "section" of Dublin ennobled by the feet or the parties to the Proceedings, as well as views of the buildings ill which they were held. The report is done in a business-like way : but these meetings are to be visited, not criticized : the Aristarchus who has prepared for the labours of the morning by the "breakfasts" in the College Hall of Trinity, and who has solaced himself after his toils by a dinner in the same place—or at "Morrison's, the first hotel in the city.' —or at "Melon's, Salt Hill"—or who has partaken of the "hos- pitalities of private life, so liberally exercised "—is in a different predicament from the cr:tic, who has reaped no benefit from the change of scene which the love of science has induced, and who has no associations to fall back upon. It is this class only who can appreciate a report like this, to them only will it be truly useful : if the texts of the scientific sermons do not directly call up agreeable reminiscences, they must remind the listeners of the after jollifications.
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