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“ Claims t do not accord with the spirit of science ; rather iren 
I liken the doma of dini] knowledge to a hive, in which every comb is 
dept; and truth the one queen over them a 
** It remains to de a ra words on pes pionpasis whieh this Norwich meet- 
ing opens. A new science has dawned upon us, that of the early history of 
mankind. Die archæology Godean as it does, the origin of language 
and of art) is the latest to rise of a series of luminaries that have dispelled the 
mists of ages, and replaced time-honoured traditions by scientific truths. 
“ A great deal has been said as written of late about the respective attitudes 
of religion and science. Let e h pursue the search for tr 
vain that each regards the zie s pursuit from afar, and, turning the object- 
glass of his mind’s telescope to his eye, is content when he sees how small the 
other looks. One of the deepest iym Mr. Herbert Spencer (‘ First Prin- 
ciples,’ by Herbert Spencer, ed. ii. p. 46), has said, ‘ If religion and science are 
to be reconciled, the basis of the reconciliation must be this ene se 
and most certain of facts, that the power which t to 
utterly inscrutable.’ The bond that unites the scart aid spiritual bios; 
of man, and the forces which manifest themselves in the alternate victories of 
mind and of matter over the actions of the individual, are, of all the subjects 
that physies and psychology have revealed to us, the most absorbing, and per- 
of the past and the future, the whence and the whither. Sed his existence ; and 
after a knowledge of these the human soul still yearni 
LIST OF SAMOAN ` FERNS, 
COLLECTED AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO — * SPECIES 
Fruicum, BY Rev. S. PowE 
i i Powell’ b 
The figures attached to the species are Powell's numbers. 
Pu 1. GLEICHENIACER. 
Gleichenia dichotom 
G. dichotoma, var. "Ted 146. 
TRIBE 2. PoLYPODIACE®. 
Suborder 1. Sé qmd 
Cyathea (Eucyathea) leucolepis, 20. 
Alsophila (Eualsophila) lunulata, fit. 85. 
A. truncata, Brack., 
Suborder 2. Dicksoniee. 
Dicksonia (Balantium) Berteroana, Hook., 45. 
