250 THE ABNORMAL CONDITIONS OF WATER, ETC. 
of the other. Failing to draw this distinction so good a physician 
as the late Professor Tyndall went out of his way to deal (in some 
of his writings) feeble blows at the teleologist. It was an instance of 
dealing blows into the air, vires in ventos effundere (Virg.) 
Professor HuLti’s reply.—That water ‘‘ further expands in the act 
of congelation,” as Dr. Irving points out, is of interest ; though I 
question whether the experiment at Wellington College proves more 
than that at zero of Cent. the expansion had reached its maximum ; 
and water being incompressible ex necessitate burst the bomb. 
As regards Dr. Irving’s ‘‘ wonder” that as a geologist I did not 
enter upon the agency of water in eroding mountains, etc., my reply 
is that these were outside the range of my subject. My object was 
to point out the abnormal characteristics of water, and their evidence 
of Design in Nature. Until I received Dr. Irving’s criticism I was 
not aware that this subject had been treated by a Senior Wrangler 
of Cambridge, or any other writers; the advantage of this is, that 
both essays, that of Canon J. M. Wilson and my own, are 
original. 
