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LIST OF SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. 



Right Hon. Lord Macaulay. 



Eight Eev. Richard Whately, D.D., 

 Archbishop of Dublin. 



Right Rev. R. Dickson Hampden, 

 D.D., Bishop of Hereford. 



William Whewell, D.D., Trinity 

 College, Cambridge. 



Sir David Brewster, K.H., LL.D., 

 Principal of the University of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S., Superin- 

 tendent of the Natural History De- 

 partments in the British Museum. 



John Lee, D.D., late Principal of the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



Sir William Hamilton. Bart. 



Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. 



Sir John Richardson. 



Sir John M'Neill. 



Henry Rogers, Esq., Author of the 

 "Eclipse of Faith," &c. 



Isaac Taylor, Esq., Author of the 

 " Natural History of Enthusiasm," &c. 



Rev. Charles Kingsley, Author of 

 " Hypatia," " Westward Ho," &c. 



J. D. Forbes, Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the University of 

 Edinburgh, &c, &c. 



Robert Stephenson, Esq., M.P., late 

 President of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, &c. 



Richard Monckton Milnes, Esq., 

 M.P.. 



Hepworth Dixon, Esq. 



Theodore Martin, Esq. 



Major-General Portlock. R.M.A., Pre- 

 sident of the Geological Society of 

 London. 



Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. 



David Masson, M.A., Professor of 

 English Literature in University 

 College, London. 



Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., 

 K.H., M.A., D.C.L., &c. 



D. F. Arago, late Member of the Royal 

 Institute of France. 



Sir John Robison, LL.D., late Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh. 



Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 



C. C. J. Bunsen, D.D.. D.C.L.. 

 D.P.H. 



Lord Jeffrey. 



Thomas Young, M.D., late Correspond- 

 ing Member of the Royal Institute of 

 France. 



Sir John Leslie, late Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy in the University 

 of Edinburgh. 



Sir John Barrow, Bart. 



John Playfair, F.R.S., late Professor 

 of Natural Philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh. 



The Right Hon. Sir James Mackin- 

 tosh, LL.D., &c. 



Dugald Stewart, F.R.SS. L. and E. 



Sir James E. Smith, F.R.S., late Presi- 

 dent of the Linnean Society. 



Jean Baptiste Biot, Member of the 

 Royal Institute of France. 



Right Rev. George Gleig, D.D. 



Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Smith, 

 F.R.S. 



E. G. Squier, formerly Cliargt) 

 D Affaires of the United States to 

 the Republics of Central America. 



Sir John Graham Dalyell, Bart. 

 A. H. Layard, LL.D. 



