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In the present treatise, it is a matter of the warmest satisfaction to find nn anatomist of Sir Charles Bell's great eminence, professing his contempt for the late fashionable doctrines of Materialism held by so many anatomists, and now coming forward to present the fruits of his wide researches and great ability, in a treatise so full of curious and interesting matter, expressly intended to prove, by the examination of one particular point, that design which is impressed on all parts of the various animals whichin some degree answer the purposes of the hand, and has shown that the hand is not the source of contrivance, nor consequently of man's superi- ority, as some materialists have maintained.To this he has added some very valuable remarks, showing the uses of pain, and he has illustrated this work with a variety of the most admit able and interesting wood cuts."British Magazine.. " The manner in which he has executed his task is able and satisfactory.With great and extensive experimental knowledge, and a complete acquaintance with his subject, as well as just and elevated views of the great- ness and divine nature of the Creator, he has brought one of the most powerful chains of reasoning to the support of Revelation which philosophy has yet added to that holy cause.''-JV.Y. Commercial." Let works like that before us be widely disseminated, and the bold, active, and ingenious enemies of religion be met by those, equally sagacious, alert and resolute, and the most timid of the many who depend upon the few, need not fear the host that comes with subtle steps to ' steal their faith away.'"N. Y. American."That the devoted spirit of the work is most exemplary, that we have here and there found, or fancied, room for cavil, only peradventure be- cause we have been unable to follow the author through the prodigious range of his philosophical survey -and in a word, that the work before us would have made the reputation of any other man, and may well maintain even that of Ptofessor Whewell."Metropolitan."We have read this work (Buckland's Geology, &c.) with a degree of satisfaction and admiration which has increased at every step." It is a full digest of the most important facts in geology, happily combined, with great condensation and perspicuity, and by the most liberal use of plates beautifully executed, it speaks intelligibly to the eyes, even of those who are not familiar with the language of natural history, and thus it displays the astonishing structure of the world. "The great moral demonstration which is its main object, is fully sus- tained, and we think that no man can rise from the intelligent perusal of it, without a full conviction that a creating and governing mind, infinite in power, knowledge, wisdom and benevolence, has gradually arranged the materials of this planet, and caused to be interred in its strata and mineral masses, documents of its history, and of that of innumerable races of ani- mals and plants, from the most miscroscopic to the most collosal, which lived and died ere man appeared -documents surpassing in number and in credibility every thing of actual history, except the inspired record itself." With this record we believe these facts to be entirely consistent, and we are fully assured that ignorance of them is the sole cause of the incre- dulity aud displeasure which are manifested by some as to the motal bear- ing of geology." We cannot now enter upon this argument, and can only say, in con- clusion, that Dr. Buckland has, by the present work, laid both science and religion under great obligations, -while he will delight all his readers by VI LIST OF ENGRAVIIfGS.Plate 25'.Fossil Crocodileans and Chelonian.26.Footsteps on Red Sandstone near Dumfries.26'.Footsteps on Red Sandstone at Hessberg, (Double Plate.)26".Hind footstep of Chirotherium on Sandstone from Hessberg.26'".Footsteps of some unknown Reptile on Sandstone from Hessberg.LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.Vll Plate 50.Body of Encrinites Moniliformis dissected.51.Briarean Pentacrinite, from the Lias at Lyme Regis.52.Recent and fossil Pentacrinites.53.Briarean Pentacrinite from the Lias, (Double Plate.)54.Recent Corals with their Polypes.55.Fossil Tree (Lepidodendron Sternbergii) from a Coal mine in Bohemia.* This shark is the only known living representative of the extinct genus Psammodus.t Fig. 27.In most, if not all the species of Platycrinites the arms are subdivided ; they are not so in this figure, as from its small size they could not well be represented.The figure is intended to give only a general idea of the subject.VOL. II.
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