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BRIDGEWATER TREATISES.
NOW COMPLETE.

This series of Treatises is published under the following circumstances:

The Right Honourable and Rev. Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater,
died in the month of Febreary, 1829; and by his last will and testament,
bearing date the 25th of February, 1825; he directed certain trustees therein
named, to invest in the public funds, the sum of eight thousand pounds
sterling; this sum, with the accruing dividends thereon, to be held at the
disposal of the President, for the time being, of the Royal Society of London,
to be paid to the person or persons nominated by him. The Testator
farther directed, that the person or persons selected by the said President,
should be appointed to write, print and publish one thousand copies of a
work, on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the
Creation; illustrating such work, by all reasonable arguments, as for instance,
the variety and formation of God's creatures in the Animal, Vegetable,
and Mineral Kingdoms; the effect of digestion, and, thereby, of conversion;
the construction of the hand of man, and an infinite variety of
other arguments; as also by discoveries, ancient and modern, in arts,
sciences, and the whole extent of literature.

He desired, moreover, that the profits arising from the sale of the works
so published, should be paid to the authors of the works.

The late President of the Royal Society, Davies Gilbert, Esq. requested
the assistance of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the
Bishop of London, in determining upon the best mode of carrying into
effect the intentions of the Testator. Acting with their advice, and with
the concurrence of a nobleman immediately connected with the deceased,
Mr. Davies Gilbert appointed the following eight gentlemen to write separate
Treatises in the different branches of the subject here stated:—

I. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual
Constitution of Man, by the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D. D. Professor of
Divinity in the University of Edinburgh.

II. The Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of
Man, by John Kidd, M. D., F. R. S., Regius Professor of Medicine in the
University of Oxford.

III. Astronomy and General Physics, considered with reference to Natural
Theology, by the Rev. William Whewell, M. A., F. R. S., Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge.

IV. The Hand; its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design,
by Sir Charles Bell, K. H., F. R. S.

V. Animal and Vegetable Physiology, by Peter Mark Roget, M. D., Fellow
of and Secretary to the Royal Society.

VI. Geology and Mineralogy, by the Rev. Wm. Buckland, D. D., F. R. S.,
Canon of Christ Church, and Professor of Geology in the University of
Oxford.

VII. The History, Habits, and Instincts of Animals, by the Rev. William
Kirby, M. A., F. R. S.

VIII. Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, by Wm.
Prout, M. D., F. R. S.

The whole of these valuable works being now published,
they can be had in the following manner:—

TREATISE FIRST.

ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE MORAL
AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN. By the
Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D. D.

TREATISE EIGHTH.

CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, AND THE FUNCTIONS OF DIGESTION,
considered with reference to Natural Theology. By William
Prout, M. D., F. R. S.

TREATISE SECOND.

A TREATISE ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE
TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN, principally with reference
to the supply of his wants, and the exercise of his intellectual faculties.
By John Kidd, M. D., F. R. S.

TREATISE THIRD.

ASTRONOMY AND GENERAL PHYSICS, considered with reference
to Natural Theology. By the Rev. William Whewell, M. A.

TREATISE FOURTH.

THE HAND: ITS MECHANISM AND VITAL ENDOWMENTS, AS
EVINCING DESIGN. By Sir Charles Bell, K. G. H.

The above five works in two handsome 8vo. volumes—or
they may be had separately in a cheap form, each in one
vol. 12mo.

TREATISE SEVENTH.

THE HISTORY, HABITS AND INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS. By the
Rev. William Kirby, M. A., F. R. S. Illustrated by numerous engravings
on copper. In one handsome 8vo. volume.

TREATISE FIFTH.

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, considered with reference
to Natural Theology. By Peter Mark Roget, M. D. Illustrated with
nearly 500 wood-cuts. In two handsome 8vo. volumes.

TREATISE SIXTH.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, considered with reference to Natural
Theology. By the Rev. William Buckland, D. D. Illustrated by 87
large and expensive plates engraved on Copper, forming two handsome
8vo. volumes.