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Sir David Brewster, the President (of the British Association at Edinburgh), Delivering the Opening Address, 1850. 'A goodly number, about 1200 old and new members of the British Association, have assembled themselves for the second time in the capital of the North...Professor Robinson, in a brief but elegant and touchingly eloquent address, resigned the President's chair to Sir David Brewster. That eminent philosopher delivered his opening address...which was characterised throughout by that strong philosophic view of things which distinguishes all Sir David Brewster's works; and by that eloquence which is to be found in all his literary labours, and which has tended greatly to render those departments of science which he has cultivated exceedingly popular'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.