xi THE REV. WILLIAM BUCKLAND, D.D. F.R. S. CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND professor OF GEOLOGY IN THE ON GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. THE REV. WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. ON THE HISTORY, HABITS, AND INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS. WILLIAM PROUT, M. D. F. R.S. CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, and the FUNCTION OF DIGESTION, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, President of the Royal Society, having desired that no unnecessary delay should take place in the publication of the above mentioned Treatises, they will appear at short intervals, as they are ready for publication. CONTENTS. [Within the last few years, several works have been published in this Country on subjects more or less closely approaching to that here treated. It may, therefore, be not superfluous to say that the Author of the following pages believes that he has not borrowed any of his views or illustrations from recent English writers on Natural Theology.] Page INTRODUCTION. CHAP. I. Object of the Present Treatise. 1 6 III. Mutual Adaptation of Laws of Nature... 11 14 54 V. The Magnitude of the Atmosphere VI. The Constancy and Variety of Climates.. 55 to the Variety of Climate ... VIII. The Constituents of Climate... The Laws of Heat with respect to the Earth 62 75 76 80 CHAP. I. The Creator of the Physical World is the II. On the Vastness of the Universe Page |