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MAN AND NATURE. 1 



[CONTBIBUTED TO THE 'EDINBURGH REVIEW ' IN 1864.] 



OF the two works which we place at the head of this 

 article, the first is of largest pretension, both in title 

 and extent, and is that to which we seek chiefly to 

 direct the attention of our readers. The second is a 

 small volume comprising the substance of a course of 

 Lectures on Climate, delivered at Torquay, by Dr. 

 Daubeny, the Oxford Professor of Botany. The topic 

 is one having such close connexion with the objects of 

 the larger work of Mr. Marsh, that we willingly bring 

 the volumes together, as mutually illustrative. That 

 of Dr. Daubeny, though much more limited in design 

 and details, is characterised by the various learning 

 and industry which are found in the former writings 

 of this zealous naturalist ; and we shall have occasion 

 now and then to refer to it in its bearing on the sub- 

 ject before us. 



The author of the larger volume is an American 

 gentleman who has held, and still holds, we believe, a 

 high diplomatic position in the service of the United 



1 ART. VI. 1. Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography, as Modified 

 by Human Action. By GEOEGE P. MAESH. London : 1864. 



2. Climate : an Inquiry into the Causes of its Differences, and into its 

 Influence on Vegetable Life; comprising the Substance of Four Lectures 

 delivered before the Natural History Society, Torquay, in February 1863. 

 By CHAKLES DAUBE^Y, M.D., F.E.S. 



