LATE PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

MACMILLAN AND CO.

Cambridge:
AND 23, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN,

London.

1860.

TO THE HON. AND REV.

LATIMER NEVILLE, M.A.,

VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

THIS VOLUME

WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF THE REDE LECTURE,

DELIVERED UNDER HIS, AUSPICES IN MAY, 1860,

IS BY PERMISSION

MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.