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cess of the atlas as a work of art reflects equal credit on the 
artist and engraver. An especial feature of the work, as of many 
of Dr. Hayden’s reports, is the analytical landscapes of Mr. 
Holmes. These representations, which conclude the atlas, enable 
the reader to realize, ay a vertical projection, the teachings of the 
preceding maps and charts. 
Every citizen of our ales will feel increased respect for his 
government, which fosters works like the present; and the com- 
plaint that a republican form is discouraging to the development 
of science within its limits is shown every day to be without 
foundation. 
Tue Penn Monruty for June, 1878—This magazine deserves 
well of the thinking community as an enterprise for the dissemi- 
nation of fact and argument in all questions of the highest 
moment. The present number contains an article which interests 
us especially, entitled, “The relation of the Mosaic Cosmogony 
to Science,” by C. B. ‘Warring, Ph.D. It is another attempt to 
reconcile the account of creation, given by Moses in the first 
chapter of Genesis, with the facts which have been ascertained by 
iavestigation, and which form the branches of science known as 
geology and paleontology. 
Mr. Warring approaches the subject in a jude apri and 
with an evident desire to ascertain the truth of the r He 
is careful to disavow responsibility for the ESE g Ta any 
friends of the Mosaic record, which cannot be GA ated by 
the text. He also admits the validity of the conclusions attained 
by scientific men in physics and geology. These conclusions he 
arranges under twenty heads, commencing with the former 
department and RFEA with the latter. These are fairly stated, 
but we leave to our friends the physicists the assertion that light 
is the primal form of motion and force, and the new theory pro- 
of the subject, which is derived fam Dana, is open to such 
doubt as to be invalid as evidence: it is, that “ every fish, bird, 
reptile and mammal of the Tertiary is now extinct.” 
he general coincidence of the Mosaic account with these 
ever, the coincidence is sufficiently exact to warrant the high esti- 
matè placed upon it by many theologians, and the assertions 
made as to its supernatural origin, is avery different matter. In 
discussing this part of the subject, our author is not free from 
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