340 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
or less familiar,—which is the doctrine of uniformitarianism as 
taught by Lye I. In reference to this point he reviews facts with 
regard to metamorphiem | in various geological ages ; velonsoes:; 
the formation of mountains; for mation of salt and salt lakes the 
oe Sealer action, in roche moutonnée surfaces over granite, pre- 
ceding the Cam ‘brian in northwest Scotland; and of glacier- 
cotanians beds of the Salt ran nge in India, and in Mio ocene 
deposits in the north of Ita ly, near Turin. | Fa cts are be ohich 
y its Pr esi- 
matics and Physics, 
molecular hi and that of F, M. Batrour, Vice-President 
ence of the Darwinian theory on embryology. 
The peg hep a paragraphs are from the address of Professor 
om ; 
ac anies it in all its movements. The density of the ether 
increases rapidly as an atom is approached, and it would seem 
that there must be some force of attraction between the atom and 
its ether envelope. All the atoms have motions of translations in 
