384 William Hallowes Miller. 
over the road he has traveled, and while we take courage in 
his success consider well the lesson which his experience has 
to teach; and. as progress in this world’s knowledge has ever 
been from the gross to the spiritual, may we not rejoice as 
_ those who have a great hope. 
Although the exceeding merit of the “ Treatise on Crystal- 
lography” casts into the shade all that was subordinate, we must 
not omit to mention that Professor Miller published an early 
work on Hydrostatics and numerous shorter papers on Mine- 
ralogy and Physics, which were all valuable, and constantly 
sg aety important additions to knowledge. Moreover, the 
te ee 
should be collated, and especiaily that by a suitable commen- 
tary his “ Tract on hare pale ot should be made accessible 
matical terms. The very merits of Professor Miller’s book as 
tion, to have been the recipient of the courtesies and counsel 
of three great Englishmen of science, who have always been 
‘his own ideal knights,” and these noble knights were Fara- 
day, Graham and Miller. 
* Obituary Notices from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 206, 1880, 
to which the writer has been indebted for several biographical details. 
