Abstract
ON Wednesday, April 22, the first soirée of the Royal Society since their removal into their new apartments was given by the President, Dr. Hooker, and came off with the greatest éclat. There was a remarkably good display of scientific apparatus, and we think that the interdependence of the man of Science and of the manufacturer of instruments is at no time better exemplified than on occasions like the present. The apartments devoted to the purposes of exhibition were thronged by the most eminent in the various branches of Science—it might have been said with reason that a considerable fraction of the nation's mind had centred for the time being in the rooms at Burlington House. Not as an unhealthy sign either did we regard the presence of Archbishop Manning and the attention shown towards that divine by scientific men of the very opposite poles of thought.
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