certain probation, a calm and solemn inertia, disturbed at 

 last by the insect wakening into a new condition, and 

 stretching its light and beautiful pinions to the air. And 

 man, according to his doom, an abject nothing, or rising 

 on the wing of immortality into that glorious, new, and 

 beautiful existence, permeating that realm where darkness 

 never reigns, and ascending to glories eternal and ever- 

 lasting. 



In conclusion Captain Cox observed that the branch of 

 study to which he had called their attention was rich in 

 most interesting matter ; and if be lad failed to interest 

 his audience on that occasion, the fault rested with him, and 

 not with the subject. Captain Cox, in the course of his 

 address was frequently applauded, and sat down amidst 

 prolonged cheering. ,>— 



The President said that it now became his pleasant duty 

 to propose a vote of thanks to Captain Cox for his very 

 interesting and able lecture. (Loud cheers.) Captain Cox 

 had said that if the audience hail not been interested the 

 fault must rest with him, and not with his subject. Ho 

 (the President) believed he could assure him that he need 

 be under no apprehension of the kind, for not only was the 

 subject most interesting in itself, but it had also been most 

 ably treated. (Renewed cheers.) It appeared to him that 

 Captain Cox afforded an example of that rule of study to 

 which he (the President) bad adverted in his former remarks, 

 and that he had not only studied a particular subject with 

 diligence, but had also evinced a catholic and a generous 

 spirit. One who could lecture in such a manner must have 

 formed an extensive acquaintance not only with Natural 

 History generally, but also with science in itself. He (the 

 President) fully concurred in the observations which had 

 been made as to the true end of such studies — " to look 

 from Nature up Nature's God." (Hear, hear.) He 

 remembered reading in Paley's " Natural Philosophy" an 

 argument based on the supposition that if a savage were 

 to find a watcb, bo would, while viewing its movements and 

 adtninug IIb iutiicutc coustruclimi, naturally conclude that 



