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given to the whole of India ; it sometimes comprehends, besides, one of the 

 four Budhistic continents. 



( 8 ) p. 14. Ueber die Kawi-Sprache auf der Insel Java, nebst eraer 

 Einleitung ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren 

 Einfluss aus die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlecht's von Wilhelm 

 *. Hnmboldt, 1836, Bd. i. S. 5310. 



O p. 15. Aber im stillen Gemach entwirft bedeutende Zirkel 

 Sinnend der Weise, beschleicht forschend den schafFenden Geist 

 Priift der Stoffe Gewalt, der Magnete Hassen und Lieben, 

 Folgt durch die Liifte dem Klang, folgt durch den Aether dem Strahl, 

 Sucht das vertraute Gesetz in des ZufalTs grausenden Wundern 

 Sucht den ruhenden Pol in der Erscheiuungen Flucht. Schiller, 1795. 



Science the while, deep musing in cell over circle and figure, 

 Knows and adores the Power which through creation it tracks, 

 Measures the forces of matter the hates and loves of the magnets 

 Sound through its wafting breeze, light through its aether pursues, 

 Seeks in the marvels of chance the law which pervades and controls it 

 Seeks the reposing pole fixed in the whirl of events. 

 From a translation by Sir John Herschel, Bart, printed for private circulation. 



( 10 ) p. 19. Arago's "micrometre oculaire," a happy improvement on 

 Rochon's " micrometre prismatique," or " a double refraction." See the note 

 of M. Mathieu in the Hist, de 1'Astr. an 18me siecle, par Delambre, 1827, 

 p. 651. 



( u ) p. 22. Caras, von den Urtheiten des Knochen- und Scnalen- 

 Gerustes, 1828, 6. 



( 12 ) p. 22. Plut. in Vita Alex. Magni, cap. 7. 



( 13 ) p. 27. The melting points of substances of very difficult fusion 

 are usually given much too high. According to the very accurate re- 

 searches of Mitscherlich, the melting point of granite can hardly exceed 

 1300 Cent. 



( 14 ) p. 28. See the classical work on the fishes of the old world by 

 Agassiz, entitled, Recherches sur les Poissons fossiles, 1834, Vol. i. p. 38 ; 

 Vol. ii. pp. 3, 28, 34 ; Addit. p. 6. The whole genus of Amblypterus, Ag., 

 nearly allied to Paleeoniscus (formerly Paljcothrissum), lies buried beneath 

 the oolitic formation in the old carboniferous strata. Scales, which in some 

 situations are formed like teeth, and covered with enamel, from the family 

 Lepidoides (Order of Ganoides), belong to the oldest forms of ancient fishe* 



