Most. geologists of any note have, in a greater or
less degree, adupted it. Dr. Mantell gives us repre-
sentations. of nebule, in a variety of stages of con-
densation, at {he commencement of one of his works
on the’science. ——--

Dr. Buckland tells us, in one of the Bridgewater
Treatises, that “the nebular hypothesis offers the
most simple, and, therefore, the most probable. theory
respecting the first condition of the material ele-
ments that compose our solar system.” (Vol. }.p. se
‘Phere are other parts of their writings that woul
strongly tempt us to suppose, had it not been for
‘the recent correspondence, that, toa great extent,
they also, at least up to a very recent’ period, had
agreed with the author of the “ Vestiges” even in
the theory of the progressive development of animal
and vegetable life. But seeing they have now writ-
ten so unmeasuredly, that they thoroughly repudiate
the doctrines of the book, we are compelled to assume
we have been wrong, though their works are befure us, |