“Babawehu urie mbinguni, Rizuke zinaro.  Uzumbeo uze.  Malondogo gabondeke hahikahi ya zi, za gafiohendeka mbinguni.  Mukahewehu utosao, hu-ve suisui ziku kua ziku.  Hu-ussire suisui maigehu; hakika suisui kahiri huna-mu-ussira kulla mutu akos saye zuluyehu.  Si-hu-bumire suisui magesoni, ela hu-lafie suisui wiini.”

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[Illustration:  SIR DAVID BREWSTER, PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.]

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science assembled this year at Edinburgh, and its first general meeting was held on Wednesday, the 31st of July, when Sir DAVID BREWSTER, upon taking the chair, delivered a very interesting address upon the history of the Association, and the progress of the Sciences.  On Thursday, business began in all the sections, and in the evening Prof.  Bennett delivered a lecture on the passage of the blood through the minute vesicles of animals, in connection with nutrition.  On Friday, a party of about seventy started under the direction of Mr. R. Chambers, to examine into the groovings on the western face of Corstophine Hill, and the striae on the sandstone near Ravelstone.  They afterward visited Arthur’s Seat and St. Margaret’s, where they examined the striated rocks and stones.  In the evening there was a conversazione and promenade.  Saturday was devoted to excursions.  On Monday afternoon upward of two hundred members dined together, Sir David Brewster presiding.  In the evening, Dr. Mantell delivered a lecture on the extinct birds of New Zealand.  On Tuesday evening there was a full-dress promenade and soiree.  On Wednesday, the general committee assembled to sanction the grants that had passed the Committee of Recommendations:  and in the afternoon of the same day the concluding general meeting of the Association, for the accustomed ceremonial proceedings, was held.  The next annual meeting is to take place at Ipswich, and Mr. Airy, the Astronomer Royal, will preside.  The meeting, altogether, was one of unusual interest; among the persons present were the chief lights of science, in the empire and from the continent, and our own country was represented by Prof.  Hitchcock and several other scholars.  The papers read in the various sections were numerous, and some of them are described as of very remarkable freshness and value.  They will soon be accessible in the published Transactions, which will this year be more voluminous than ever.

The retiring President, Dr. Robinson, at the opening meeting, congratulated himself on being able to surrender his dominion to his successor in a more prosperous condition than he had received it, and spoke in glowing terms of the character and scientific achievements of that successor, of whose labors he gave a brief but glowing history.  Sir David Brewster, who was one of the founders of the Association, is a native of Jedburgh, in Roxburgshire; where he was born December