Excerpt from The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1863: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art
No meeting of the American Association for the Promotion of Science took place during the past year, and the old organization of this body may probably be regarded as defunct.
The thirty-second annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Cambridge, October, 1862, Prof. Willis, of Cambridge, being in the chair. The meeting was less interesting, and far less numerously attended, than most of the former sessions of this body; and some of the discussions were in a measure acrimonious and personal. The annual address of the President, moreover, contained nothing particularly interesting to the general reader. The meeting for 1863 was appointed to be held at Newcastle-on-Tyne ;Sir William Armstrong, of Armstrong gun notoriety, being elected President for the year.
A most ludicrous illustration of misapplied and mistaken zeal in the pursuit of science, which occurred at this meeting, is worthy of notice. A Rev. Dr. Mill read a very long paper, displaying extraordinary learning in Hebrew, Greek, and almost every language that could be brought in. The subject of it was an inscribed stone, found in Aberdeenshire, a county containing many of what are commonly called Druidical monuments. Dr. Mill read the inscription backwards, decided that the letters were Phoenician, and explained them by the corresponding letters of the Hebrew alphabet. According to his interpretation, it was a votive monument dedicated to Eshmun, god of health (the Tyrian Esculapius), in gratitude for favors received during the "wandering exile of me thy servant," - the dedicator being "Han-Thanit-Zenaniah, magistrate, who is saturated with sorrow."
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