I do not forget that my hearers are busy men, chiefly concerned in the science and art of medicine. These facts and fancies are somewhat foreign to our every-day work. And yet we know that underneath the professional current of many a busy physician's life are quiet depths where the testimony of Nature in all her phases are ever welcome. This has been my hope, and, if needful, this must be my apology. It has been my effort not to bring you a new or strange message, rather to gather from

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... ic fields and speculative by-ways such flowers of fact and fancy as seem most true and beautiful and most suggestive, when woven together, of the sublimity of Nature and the glory of that Eternal energy, which, in the language of John Fiske, " manifests itself to our consciousness, in harmonious activity throughout the length and breadth and depth of the universe, which guides the stars for countless ages in paths that never err, and which animates the molecules of the dewdrop that gleams for a brief hour on the shaven lawn, whose workings are so resistless that we have naught to do but reverently obey them, yet so infallible that we place our trust in them yesterday, to-day and forever." REFERENCES.