Excerpt from Addresses The book found at once a hearty response. It ran through thirty editions in England, and the presses are not yet still. It was republished in America. It was trans lated into French, German, Dutch, and Norwegian. It has already become a classic. In 1884 he became Professor of Science in the Free Church College. He had already established a firm friendship with Prof. Geikie, a man of kindred tastes and abilities, with whom he soon after started on an extended tour through the Rocky Mountains and South Africa. Some of the results of his travels were given to the world in a little work entitled Trop ical Africa, and in other monographs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.