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tation of the facts than the observer himself saw. Geological 

 literature is admirably adapted for this higher discipline, and in 

 no field of science (I think not in astronomy itself), has wider 

 and more comprehensive thought been applied than in geology. 

 While other branches of science have been developed and 

 become more narrow and special in their treatment of the facts 

 concerned, geology still stands as the most comprehensive of 

 all the sciences of nature. 



H. S. Williams. 



Yale College, November 30, 1892. 



