NOTE.--Dean Stanley, an eminent divine of the Church of England, in his discourse at the funeral of Sir Charles Lyell, takes unusual grounds for a theologist. He is reported as saying that there were and are two modes of reconciling the letter of Scripture with geology, but each has totally and deservedly failed. One of these attempts to wrest the words of the Bible from their real meaning, and force them to speak the language of science; the other attempts to falsify science to meet the supposed requirements of the Bible. But there is another reconciliation of a higher kind, or rather an acknowledgment of the affinity and identity which exist between the spirit of science and the spirit of the Bible. First, there is a likeness of the general spirit of the Bible truths; and, secondly, there is a likeness in the methods. The frame of this earth was gradually brought into its present condition by the slow and silent action of the same causes which we see now operating through a long succession of ages beyond the memory and imagination of man. We do not expect this doctrine to agree with the letter of the Bible. The early biblical records could not be literal, prosaic, matter-of-fact descriptions of the beginning of the world. It is now clear that the first and second chapters of Genesis contain two narratives of the Creation side by side, differing from each other in almost every particular of time and place and order. It is now known that the vast epochs demanded by scientific observation are incompatible both with the six thousand years of the Mosaic chronology and the six days of the Mosaic Creation. The discoveries of geology are found to fill up the old religious truths with a new life, and to derive from them in turn a hallowing glory. GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND DIFFICULT TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME. Adjunctive, having the quality of joining. Alluvial, pertaining to the deposits of sand, clay, or gravel, made by river action. Amalgamate, to mix or blend different things or races. Antero-posterior, in a direction from behind forward. Aphelion, that point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun. Archæo-geologist, one versed in pre-historic remains, or familiar with both archæology and geology. Archives, public records and papers preserved as evidence of fact. Aryan, a term applied to all the nations who speak languages derived mainly from the Sanskrit, or ancient Hindoo. Atomic, a system of philosophy which accounted for the origin and formation of all things by assuming that atoms are endowed with gravity and motion. Auditory, having the power of hearing. Baton, a staff used as an emblem of authority. Brachycephalic, a skull whose transverse diameter exceeds the antero-posterior diameter.