310 STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
history of our church can boast of; for the name of 
Jones of Nayland will ever shine as one of the bright- 
est ornaments of the Christian profession. These dis- 
courses, to be found only among his works, illustrate, 
in the most simple and beautiful manner, many points 
of that harmonious analogy between the material and 
the spiritual world, between natural and revealed re- 
ligion, which pervades creation. As a naturalist, 
this excellent man was not profound; for he lived 
when the philosophy of this science was in its infancy. 
How much-more, then, could be achieved in these 
days by one who, like the present Woodwardian 
professor at Cambridge, could bring to the subject 
the richest stores of modern discovery, with the 
sound and orthodox principles of the established 
church.* On the Croonian lecture little need be 
said; it was instituted, according to Mr. Babbage, 
by Dr. Croone, for an annual essay on muscular 
motion. The payment, indeed, is but small, — 
three pounds, —yet still it might, like the last, be 
made a subject of honourable competition among 
medical students. At present, it seems to have 
been given, “ as a sort of pension,” year after year 
to one individual. 
(217.) Such is the general nature of the char- 
tered societies of this country formed for the promo- 
tion of science, and such are the means they possess 
* Those who feel interested on this subject will peruse, with 
admiration and delight, the Discourse on the Studies of the 
University of Cambridge, by Professor Sedgwick; while the 
Critique of Dr. Ure’s Geology in the British Review for July, 
1829, by the same author, has been justly termed * an essay, 
equally worthy of a philosopher and a Christian.” 
