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the result of fortuitous circumstances. There is clearly a design and a 
Designer throughout all ; and I am sure we have learned a great deal more, 
and seen a great deal further, than we could have done without Mr. Mitchell s 
assistance. He has furnished us with a fresh proof that can leave no room 
for doubt in our minds as to the evidence of a Designer— of a great Authoi, 
ordering all things for His own purposes. There are several gentlemen 
here I understand, conversant with the matter-Mr. Brooke whose name 
has been so often mentioned by Mr. Mitchell, and Professor Moms-and 
perhaps they will give their opinions on the subject. 
Ohakles^Brookb, Esq., F.R.S. I beg leave to observe that the name 
mentioned was the name of my deceased father, and not of myself but I 
have also paid a great deal of attention to this subject, and am extreme y 
interested with the views Mr. Mitchell has so ably worked out. The vi^s 
contained in the paper my father published were just those wlu M 
Mitchell represented them to be; and some of those ™wsheh , now- 
enunciated, certainly very cleverly, carry the mutual relations of 
forms of crystals to a still further point than they were developed m my 
fa professT Mourns, F.G.S.-I find it difficult to offer any additional 
remarks this evening, after hearing the very learned lecture of Mr. Mitch 
hut I think it is one of those subjects which although apparently diffic 
first yet, to those who have paid attention to it, becomes m the endmos 
clear ; and one of the great merits of Mr. Mitchell’s researches is that his 
labours will tend ultimately to simplify the difficult science of Crystallo- 
graphy Few persons are aware when they look round our public collections 
S ^ varied forms of crystals, which are the flowers of the mineral 
kingdom, that they all belong to some great law, marking design i , 
think that the explanations Mr. Mitchell has been pvmg, pom 
there is as much evidence of design in the minerH kingdom a^wefind 
m the law of symmetry in the vegetable kingdom. (Hear, hea .) 
tl toThose who are not acquainted with crystallography, to know that every 
explained with regard to minerals has its practical value: it is valuable m 
£ - Tin »t 
fandl^r" with— -its peculiar cleavage ; and 
