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THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY.

tation of the facts than the observer himself saw. Geological literature is admirably adapted for this higher discipline, and in no field of science (I think not in astronomy itself), has wider and more comprehensive thought been applied than in geology. While other branches of science have been developed and become more narrow and special in their treatment of the facts concerned, geology still stands as the most comprehensive of all the sciences of nature.

H. S. Williams.

Yale College, November 30, 1892.
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