had never existed, I saw in life and movement a human form that challenged admiration.”

To this the writer would add his own humble testimony, that after having spent years in exploring every province of the dreary region of scepticism, he has not only found nothing to weaken his faith in the Sacred Volume, but, on the contrary, much everywhere to strengthen it. And he now lays down his pen with no more doubt that its truths were given by inspiration of God, than he has that the movements of the Planetary System are governed by the Laws of Gravitation. He accounts the teachings of Jesus as the sublimest philosophy within the reach of mortals, and the prospect of the Eternal Life which He has revealed as the source of the highest joy and of the most elevating hope to which man can attain in the present world.

"Before thy mystic altar, HEAVENLY TRUTH,
I kneel in manhood as I knelt in youth.
Thus let me kneel, till this dull form decay,
And life's last shade be brightened by thy ray:
Then shall my soul, now lost in clouds below,
Soar without bound, without consuming glow."

GLOSSARY.

ABERRATION, deviation from a straight line.
Ad libitum, without limit, without restriction.
A fortiori, much more, or with stronger reasons.

AMMONITE, a fossil shell fish, allied to the existing pearly nautilus.
AMPHIBIANS, animals that live both in air and water.

ANATOMY, the art of separating the parts of animal bodies.

ANGIOSPERMOUS, having the seed enclosed in a pod.

ANTHROPOLOGY, a discourse or treatise on human nature.

ARBORESCENT, resembling a tree.

ARCHEOLOGY, a discourse or treatise on antiquities.

ASTEROIDS, the smaller planets.

AUTOCHTHONES, primitive inhabitants, aborigines.

BATRACHIANS, animals of the frog kind.

BOTANY, the science of vegetables.

CALAMITES, plants with jointed stems or trunks.

CAMBRIAN, one of the lowest and oldest of rock formations.

CANINE, pertaining to dogs.

CARBON, pure charcoal.

CARBONIFEROUS, producing carbon or coal.

CATACLYSM, a deluge.

CENTAURI, part of a southern constellation.

CEPHALOPODS, the highest class of molluscan fish.

CETACEANS, animals of the whale kind.

CHELONIANS, animals of the turtle kind.

CHROMATIC, relating to color.

CORNEA, the transparent membrane of the eye.

CRETACEANS, animals belonging to the Chalk Period.
CYGNI, a group of stars.

DEVONIAN, the lowest member of the Secondary Rocks.
DINOTHERIUM, an extinct animal resembling the elephant.

EFT, a newt, or lizard.

ELOHIM, God, Jehovah.

EMBRYOLOGY, the science of animal rudiments in the egg or womb.

EPIDERMIS, the cuticle or scarf-skin.

ETHNOLOGY, the study of nations.

EURIPTERUS, a crustacean of the Silurian Period.

FACULE, bright spots or ridges.

FACES, excrement.

FŒTICIDE, the crime of killing the young in the womb.

FETUS, the unborn babe, an embryo in course of development.
FORAMINIFERA, very minute animals forming calcareous shells.

GANOIDS, fishes with shining scales, now nearly extinct.

GLACIAL EPOCH, a period when the greater part of the earth's surface

was covered with ice.

GLOTTIS, the narrow opening at the upper end of the wind-pipe.
GONIATITES, fossil fishes resembling the nautilus.

GYMNOSOPHIST, an Oriental philosopher.

HABITAT, natural place of habitation.

HERMAPHRODITE, a term denoting both sexes in the same animal. HIEROGLYPHICS, mystical characters or symbols, particularly those

found on Egyptian monuments.

HIPPARION, a fossil animal resembling the horse.

HOMо, the Latin word for man.

HUMERUS, the shoulder.

HYBRID, a mongrel, or a mixture of two species.

HYDROGEN, a gas which constitutes one of the elements of water.

HYDROSTATICS, the science which treats of the weight, motion and pressure of fluids.

ICHTHEOSAURIA, gigantic fishes having paddles like the whale's.
Inter se, one with the other.

INVERTEBRATE, without a back-bone.

Ipso facto, in the very act, in reality.

Jeu d'esprit, witty conceit, witticism..

JURASSIC, a rock formation, so named from the Jura Mountains.

KOSMOS, the world, the universe.

LABYRINTHODON, a fossil reptile.

LARVÆ, insects in the caterpillar state.

LARYNX, the upper part of the windpipe.

LIAS, one of the secondary groups of fossiliferous strata.
LUMINIFEROUS, producing light.

MARSUPIALS, animals that bring forth their young in an embryonic state, and then carry them in an external pouch till they reach maturity.

METEOROLOGY, the science that treats of the atmosphere and its phe

nomena.

MINERALOGY, the science which treats of the properties of minerals. MOLLUSCANS, soft-bodied animals, without skeleton or articulated

covering.

MORPHOLOGY, the science which deals with the form or structure of animal organs, independent of function.

NEBULE, clusters of stars not distinguishable from each other.
NITROGEN, a gas, one of the elements of the atmosphere.

OOLITE, rock formations of the Secondary Period.

OPTICS, the science which treats of light and vision.

OXYGEN, a gas, the vital element in the air we breathe.

PALEONTOLOGY, the science of fossil remains.

PENETRALIA, the most sacred place within a temple.

PERMIAN, a formation of the Coal Period.

PHILOLOGY, the science of languages.

PHYSIOLOGY, the science of animal and plantal functions.

PLACENTALS, the highest class of mammals.

PLANETOIDS, the smaller planets.

PLATINUM, a bright and heavy metal.

PLEIADES, "the seven stars."

PNEUMATICS,, the science which treats of air and gases.

RECALCITRATION, rebounding.

SATELLITE, a secondary planet, or moon.

SELACHIANS, cartilaginous fishes, such as the shark, ray, etc.
SENSORIUM, the seat of sense, the brain and nerves.

SHASTERS, Sacred books of the Hindoos.

SILURIAN, a vast system of rocks of the Primary Period.

SIMIADÆ, the monkey class of animals.

SYNCHRONOUS, happening or existing at the same time.

TELEOLOGICAL, relating to final causes.

TRIASSIC, the lower formations of the Secondary Rocks.
TROGLODYTES, cave-dwellers.

VERTEBRA, a joint of the spine.

VERTEBRATA, animals having jointed backbones.

WADY, Arabic name for a dry valley.

WEALDEN, a rock formation of the Chalk Period.

ZOOLOGY, the science of animals.

ZOOPHYTES, bodies supposed to partake of the nature of both an animal

and a vegetable.

ZYGOMATIC, pertaining to the cheek-bone.