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" ESSAYS AND REVIEWS."

III. REV. C. A. HEURTLEY, D.D. | VI. REV. A. W. HADDAN, B.D.
VII. REV. CHR. WORDSWORTH, D.D.

WITH A PREFACE

BY THE LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD;

AND LETTERS

FROM THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVER AND THE READER IN
GEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Second Edition.

WITH A NOTE BY PROFESSOR OWEN.

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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE

HE Second Edition is an exact reprint of the first, with one exception, namely, a valuable note from the pen of Professor Owen, which has been added in the Appendix, and which refers to an important statement made on p. 325 of the Essay on "The Creative Week."

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.

It is necessary to state that the seven Essays contained in this volume have, like those Essays to which they are replies, been "written in entire independence of each other, without concert or comparison."

Each Author was, individually, requested by the Publishers to write an Essay on a subject named, with the especial object of replying to a given Essay in the volume of "Essays and Reviews."

For the selection of writers, and for the choice of subject assigned to each, the Publishers are responsible. Beyond this, each writer was free to exercise his own judgment in the mode of treatment of the Essay: nor was he guided in any way by what others had written, or were writing, for the same volume.

This course of proceeding was not adopted without due consideration. It was thought, firstly, that as the "Essays and Reviews" professed to be written independently of each other and without concert among the Authors, so ought the "Replies"; otherwise, it might be objected that the latter volume was written. under advantages which did not belong to the former, and therefore be refused the possession of the same weight as that volume. Secondly, that the Authors, unfettered by suggestions from Publishers or Editor, would be enabled to treat their subjects more thoroughly, to write more freely, and so more convincingly.

In most cases the Publishers are well aware that such a course would be attended with danger, but in this case they have such