Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: are well worthy of our earnest study, whether we regard them as means of exercising our mental powers, or as leading us to higher views of Him who has created all things, and for whose pleasure they are and were created. The followers of science have sometimes been blamed for attempting to subvert religion by their speculations. There can be no doubt that in former times, and even at the present day, some have started theories which have a tendency to shake the faith of weak naturalists. But these are oppositions of science falsely so called,?vague theories not founded on facts. There is no fear of true science in its bearings on religion. It is only want of science which produces any jarrings. The more we investigate the wonders of creation, the more we shall see the harmony which subsists between the Word and the works of God. I. Contributions to the Natural History of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territories. Part II.?Mammalia (continued.) By Andrew MurRay, F.R.S.E., President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Rein-deer (Rangifer Caribou).?In my last communication on this subject, I drew attention to the antlers of the American rein-deer,?their peculiar form, their mode of growth, and the habits of the animal,?as bearing on the question of its identity with the Lapland rein-deer, and made some suggestions and speculations, with the hope that they might lead some of my correspondents to inquire more particularly into these points, and give us reliable information upon them, which might enable us to come to a correct conclusion on the subject. I am happy to say, that these observations have had the desired effect, and that, with an additional supply of horns and heads, I have this year received divers remarks on the points I indicated for inquiry. One intelligent corr...