BMII>^EWATEm TREATISES. 



This series of Treatises is published undier tlie following circumstances : — 



The Right Honorable and Rev. Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, died in the month of February, 

 1825 ; he directed certain trustees therein named, to invest in the public funds, the sum of eight thousand 

 pounds sterling ; this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held at the disposal of the President, 

 for the time being, of the Royal Society of London, to be paid to the person or persons nominated by him. 

 The Testator farther directed, that the person or persons selected by the said President, should be appointed 

 to write, print and publish one thousand copies of a work, on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as 

 manifested in the Creation; illustrating such work, by all reasonable arguments, as, for instance, the variety 

 and formation of God's creatures in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, 

 and, thereby, of conversion ; the constmction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments; 

 as also by discoveries, ancient and modern, in arts, sciences, and the whole extent of literature. 



He desired, moreover, that the profits arising from the sale of the works so published, should be paid to the 

 authors of the works. 



The late President of the Royal Society, Da vies Gilbert, Esq., requested the assistance of his Grace, the 

 Aj-chbishop of Canterbury, and of the Bishop of London, in determining upon the best mode of carrying into 

 effect, the intentions of the Testator. Acting with their advice, and with the concurrence of a nobleman 

 immediately connected with the deceased, Mr. Davi'es Gilbert appointed the following eight gentlemen to 

 write separate Treatises in the different branches of the subjects here stated : — 



I. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, by the Rev. 

 Thomas Chalmers, D. D., Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. 



II. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, by John Kidd, M. D., F. R. S., 

 Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. 



III. Astronomy and General Physics, considered with reference to Natural Theology, by the Rev. William 

 Whewell, M. A., F. R. S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



IV. The Hand ; its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design, by Sir Charles Bell, K. H., F. R. S. 



V. Animal and Vegetable Physiology, by Peter Mark Roget, M. D., Fellow of and Secretary to the Royal 

 Society. 



VI. Geology and Mineralogy, by the Rev. Wm. Buckland, D. D., F. R. S., Canon of Christ Church, and 

 Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. 



VII. The History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals, by the Rev. Wm. Kirby, M. A., F. R. S 



VIII. Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, by Wm. Prout, M. D., F. R. S. 



THE FOLLOWING ARE PUBLISHED. 

 ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL 

 NATURE TO THE MORAL AND IN- 

 TELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF 

 MAN. B}^ the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, 

 D. D. ; being Part I. of the Bridgewater 

 Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and Good- 

 ness of God, as manifested in the Creation. 

 In one vol. l^mo. 



" The volumes before us are every vi^ay worthy of their 

 svsbject. It would seem almost supererogatory to pass 

 any judgment on the style of a writer so celebrated as 

 Dr. Chalmers. He is well known as a logician not to be 

 baffled by any difficulties; as one who boldly grapples 

 with his theme, and brings every energy of his clear and 

 nervous intellect into the field. No sophistry escapes 

 his eagle vision— no argument that could either enforce 

 or illustrate his subject is left untouched. Our literature 

 owes a deep debt of gratitude to the author of these ad- 

 mirable volumes." — Lit. Gazette. 



" Dr. Chalmers has here added another to the many 

 unspeakable services which he has rendered before. No 

 praise can add to his character, and no words could ex- 

 press the reviewer's sense of Dr. Chalmers' merits. It is 

 a great pleasure to think of such a man; for without 

 agreeing with him on every point, it is impossible not 

 to feel that he has devoted a mighty mind to the best of 

 causes — that every feeling and thought are disinterested 

 — that he is always laboring in the cause of God and 

 man— and that many of the truths which he is scatter- 

 ing, will, at last, by God's blessing, be instrumental in 

 destroying errors when he is low in the dust." — British 

 Magazine. 



A TREATISE ON THE ADAPTATION 

 OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE 

 PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN, 

 principally with reference to the supply of 

 his wants, and the exercise of his intellec- 

 tual faculties. By John Kidd, M. D., F. R. S., 

 Regius Professor of Medicine in the Univer- 



sity of Oxford ; being Part 11. of the Brjdge- 

 water Treatises on the Power, Wisdom, and 

 Goodness of God, as manifested in the Crea- 

 tion. In one vol. 12mo. 



" It is ably written, and replete both with interest and 

 instruction. The diffusion of such works cannot fail to 

 be attended with the hai)piest effects in justifying ' the 

 ways of God to man,' and illustrating the wisdom and 

 goodness of the Creator by arguments which appeal irre- 

 sistibly both to the reason and the feelings. Few can 

 understand abstract reasoning, and still fewer relish it, 

 or will listen to it : but in this work the purest morality 

 and the kindliest feelings are inculcated through the 

 medium of agreeable and useful information."— ^aftj- 

 rnore Gazette. 



" It should be in the hands of every individual who 

 feels disposed to ' vindicate the ways of God to man.' "— 

 J\r. Y. Com. Adv. 



" No one will read this book without profit ; it is cer- 

 tainly one of th(^ most interesting volumes we have 

 ever read." — Phil. Gazette. 



" Dr. Kidd has fulfilled his task, and may claim the 

 gratitude of those who delight to contemplate the w^is- 

 dom of Providence in the works of nature, and to dis- 

 cover the adaptation of the vegetable to the animal 

 world, and the subserviency of the whole to the high 

 destinies of man." — U. S. Gazette. 



"We congratulate Professor Kidd on the production 

 of his work, and repeat the commendation, to which, as 

 a popular treatise, it is indisputably entitled." — Chris- 

 tian Remembrancer. 



ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHY- 

 SICS, considered with reference to Natural 

 Theology. By the Rev. William Whe- 

 well, M. A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge ; being Part IIL of the 

 Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wis- 

 dom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in 

 the Creation. In one vol. 12mo. 

 " It is a work of profound investigation, deep research, 



distinguished alike for the calm Christian spirit which it 



