New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-20

n that OF the sexes and in fine in all Their relations.
Specic characters features Of relation AMI no
oh.r TIE history Of science would hardly justify /
he bore that nomenclature weuld ba fixed in this |
vav ard vet be trusted that there was soaething 10
the correction OF tnese features which would JUSTIFY
the trecuce OF longer shifting names from one |
subdiysion 70 another. The ancients distinguished
ony sueces and genera. AriFtotle called the speces
e,oo, and the genus gen0s. What call the class o
fishes be called the 1enOs of fishes, and was not until
the sixteenth century that the great naturalist OF vat
period began TO apply the term az We DO now liTas
curious 10 look over the history Of Natural Philosophy
ard zee the changes in nomenclature. VI. Aysssii
noticed several examples and proceeded to give tsc
working of bis system Of Donsac ature 10 cse OF ne
lobster, if ihet were the only cIastaoean on earth.
From s general structure, II would be set down g.
class by iieef L. could form no order as the srder
t1els pded on 2Tadaio Bu, Il would have o form,
and foim family and i would be the representative
ofore cenue determined by iis ultimate structure.
The practice of EnDgus Of mentioning under genus
rstics ofs species was ponsense. Tnese divis
;ous were truly founded ,n nature. He saw IN books
come others, but be del not understand teem thor
oupIly We bod, .cr Instance, suO-cles-c-, suO-or-
ders ard 81 ub-eenera but their ultimate reaning be
lad r,, been able 10 ascertain He hopeS future in
vestigatons would go further, and enable US 10 NM
their IneaDisg.
AsN.YTIc r0RPHeLoGY.
Professc- Prntcg said he hsd pree,nted several
papers OF Anaiytic Morphoiogy withort ever having
defined That term. IL was the science ot organized
Eams, whether those made by the Deity or those
made Icy man. It seemed to him the Only wey fe US
10 understand the organization OF tie universe was
thet by which we must understand cny human work
We would net understand play of Shakespeare until
We tiled 10 construct il again for ourselyes.
Thon, and then only, could understaod how all the
parts of the play belonged together. So with regard
to the work Of the Deity; II not possible for us to
understand this as an organization until We looked at
!. from the point Of view of the Creator. ii II were
possible for 70 andcrstaDd az all the reason Of our
dv,Cns and wha; their nature really wess We could
only 90 il by looking at il as the man who kneE most
looked at it. That man, he thought VIC M make the
world lust he II made, supposlg II 10 De per
feet wOrk-G wo-i worthy of being maoe 10y divinity.
Uncer that point of view, suppose that he, knowing
nothing of works of architecture should e1amne The
details of briogca; be would fhd three forms msIruss
arched and Suspension bridges. Considering himself
as the make be woud to the mater 7is OF which
they formed and he wOuld percePe lInmedlately
that wood a material ne essltated russ bfldge,
stone arcbsd bridge, and iron suspension ondge.
He would have to make his work correspond 10 his
materials He took il that the main difference be-
tween orgooc snd inorganic structures was that while
an il organic structure must be IN state OF unshpte
equilibrium, an organic structure must be IN sa'e ol
stable equilibrium This he thought was the iunda-
mental icea Of the structure OF almost all organic
bodies and 10 accomplish This the sod parts were con-
nec,ed together by something more or less approx
mating 10 a perfect fluid He would consider In the
cnee of uids what would be the grand classification.
He had demonstrated that there were but four forms
in which fluid lying IN another of equal sPe,lhc
gravity as in the Of the embryo would remain In
equilibrium and not crowd together I'm sphere Inc
pfopettr az well az the naturalist therefore obliged
10 divide the subject into four parts. One OF them
would te the form of ring radlatlng about
It's own axis, which he took TO be the fun
damentel idea of the radiata. The molluscs
would be represented by eiptical cynoer, the form
of fh.ir a at
constructions at regular distances shape produced by
the revolution of a wavy line round the avis of the
cy hinder, aud the vortebrata by double cylinder hav
il regular slde and corresponding To the spinal mar
row ard the intestinal cavity. The length of The limb
would be determined by the vibration of the PEN
dulum, On tho ways and means OF lOcomenon there
were great many different points on which light
might be thrown by the geOmetcr, not that the geone-
I, had any right 10 suppose that be getting at tue
funo ameItG idea of the subject but he was assisting
the naturalist.
Prof AGAssIz said that that a part of his sub
iectwhch he intended TO have presented, but did
not for lack Of tiiRe HE constant Intercourse with
Prof Peirce great to make it sometimes diff
fcult for him to know what were his prof Peirces
ideas snd what were his own. But they did not
quarrel about that. The Work Of the System be had
intended TO saw was not ours but Creators. We
could not but to the conclusion, from a consid-
Grafton of the whole that il all devised in order to
place rnp at the head and millions Of ages ago his
coming was seen as the elimination of the thought
wh.cll devised the fishes and the loTest .radidta.
WlCa4Ve came 10 the deep conviction tina, TINS whole
was the combination of there facts IN logical maD-
ner. and as whatever intelligence we had was derived
from Him ard in His image that coincidence made 1t
pussible for US TO understand His objects.
Prof PIERCE said that in regard to the question of
where The thoughts came from, be knew very well
that there was one Oftie two who would never nave
hao ouy thoughts at oil hal not the other suggested
Them.
MIR. WN. BLAKE read short paper on tie cutting
AID polishing Of granite by driving sand in the Colorado
Pass, and exhibited specimens Of the grooves and
channels as well as Of the polished surface Of the
rock The whole surface Of the granite in the pass,
he said. was cut into long and beautiful grooves,
which had a fine polish. Even quartz cut away
and polished by the inoe55ant action OF the sand.
Garnet Ebeoded in feldspar stood out ard protected
the ielspar behind them The little drgers OF stone
thus produced all pointed 20 o constant west wind
drawing through the pass This growing aud polish
ing might be seen in all parts of The desert whore there
were rocks 20 be acted upcn The polish was net Ike
that Of the lepidory, but looked more as though the
rocks had been oiled or vanished Some CT the groov
ing aud polishing which had been escfibed TO glaciers
might perhaps be referred 20 this cause.
Prot. AGAssIz said thst he particularly inter-
estod in these phenomena, since he bad devoted 80
many years to the study Of til glaciers. To know
that there another series of phenomena similar to
the glacial very interesting. ard suggested caution
in asorione any apparent phenomenon to either the
one or the other cause. He was pleased TO see that
10 objection had been made 10 the possibility Of ga
cers having produced similar phenomena. and that
their exlAenCe was Acknowledged by Mr.. Blake. IL
became necessary 20 distinguish the two sets 0i phe-
Domena. sand IN order TO be moved over such sur
faces mHst be of very nearly uniform size. nov IN
the glacier we had two differ nj phenomena produced
simultaneously, tbe polishing Of The SURFACES,
and tie other The growing aud ching p'oduced