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We see and feel more than the clown, but what we see and feel 
is so little of the great life of which flower, and grass, and stars 
and man are but fragments. We are part and parcel of a great 
movement which is going on around us and within us, and this 
groping after the ideal in nature and man is part of it also, ‘the 
spirit of the years to come yearning to mix itself with life.” We 
know nothing, but sometimes we feel as if not nature, not our 
thoughts, not ourselves, were realities, but as if all were mani- 
festations of one power, 
‘‘ Whose presence is the light of setting suns, 
And the round ocean, .and the living air, 
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man!” 
There is a mystic union between the outward vision and the 
inward seer, a “knot intrinsicate” which no metaphysical 
analysis.can untie. ‘‘Nature is the bride of the soul.” ‘’ Tis 
her privilege to lead from joy to joy.” ‘There is poetry and 
romance in every field, and in every tuft of reeds and waving 
grass: there is health, and healing, and highest spiritual min- 
istration at all times and everywhere, in winter as in summer, 
in storm and calm, by night and day, and not more in May 
flowers than in December snows. 
THE LATER GEOLOGICAL VICISSITUDES OF 
THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND. 
By R. H. TIDDEMAN, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., of H.M. 
Geological Survey. October 6th, 1885. 
We are sorry that owing to the position Mr. Tiddeman holds 
under the Government, we are not permitted to publish a report 
of his interesting lecture. 
A TRIP TO THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 
By J. MACKENZIE, M.D. October 13th, 1885. 
This paper was a descriptive account of a visit paid to the 
Yellowstone Park in the summer of 1885. ‘The rail-road route 
taken to reach the park from San Francisco through California 
and the territories of Nevada, Utah, and Idaho was first described. 
Apart of the journey extending over 100 miles had to be made 
