The uses of astronomy : $b An oration delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 — John Shaqi
The uses of astronomy : $b An oration delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856Everett, Edward
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The uses of astronomy : $b An oration delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856
Everett, Edward
Astronomy; Dudley Observatory
He next proceeded to show that organized beings were organized
with reference to a plan, which the relations between different
animals, and between different plants, and between animals and
plants, everywhere exhibit;--drew sections of the body of a
fish, and of the bird, and of man, and pointed out that in each
there was the same central back-bone, the cavity above and
the ribbed cavity below the flesh on each side, and the skin
over all--showing that the maker of each possessed the same
thought--followed the same plan of structure. And upon that plan
He had made all the kinds of quadrupeds, 2,000 in number, all the
kinds of birds, 7,000 in number, all of the reptiles, 2,000 to
3,000 in number, all the fish, 10,000 to 12,000 in number. All
their forms may be derived as different expressions of the same
formula. There are only four of these great types; or, said he,
may I not call them the four tunes on which Divinity has played
the harmonies that have peopled, in living and beautiful reality,
the whole world?
PROFESSOR HITCHCOCK ON REMINISCENCES.
ERASTUS C. BENEDICT, Esq. of New York, introduced Prof. HITCHCOCK, of
Amherst, as a gentleman whose name was very familiar, who had laid
aside, voluntarily, the charge of one of the largest colleges in New
England, but who could never lay aside the honors he had earned in the
literature and science of geology.
After a few introductory observations, Prof. HITCHCOCK said:--
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