We think he might have some natural ability.

You have a natural instinct for the simple but elegant.

We have a natural desire to want to help others.

Alex was doing everything in his power to provide her with all the experiences of a natural mother.

A more simple and natural man it would be hard to find.

Howie was a natural born follower and damaged goods.

"We were just talking of you," she said with the facility in lying natural to a society woman.

It wasn't a natural phenomenon.

Trac—the Natural tracker was able to identify patterns in the attacks.

I know people think I'm crazy, but I'd like to keep the ranch as near its natural state as possible.

The gangly youth before him had dyed his hair from platinum back to its natural color of black.

His voice held an upbeat note and natural warmth that she liked.

The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.

So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

Martha was unable to get by her natural compassion of the moment and look at a long term goal.

Your natural expectation would be that they would talk, at least as well as Scooby does.

Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness.

Was Radisson your natural father?

"A little," Carmen responded, "but I suppose that's natural, given our relationship.

This natural exchange of ideas is denied to the deaf child.

Dean wondered if there was another, more sinister reason for Paul Dawkins' silence on the subject—that he was the murderer of his wife's natural father.

"Well, Lelya?" he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince Vasili had only acquired by imitating other parents.

He wasn't sure what her gift was or what she was trying to do, but he'd never met a Natural with her unique combination of power and strength.

All that was going on before her now seemed quite natural, but on the other hand all her previous thoughts of her betrothed, of Princess Mary, or of life in the country did not once recur to her mind and were as if belonging to a remote past.

It's only natural that men want to touch you.

By experiment, by studying other children, Miss Sullivan came upon the practical way of teaching language by the natural method.

Jennifer never saw her natural father face-to-face and gave the impression she didn't give a flip.

Whatever Natural talent she had, she'd somehow turned her brother from a vamp back into a human.

"Josh Mulligan was my natural father," Jennifer said.

The menu includes katafi crusted halibut, rack of lamb, hanger steak and natural, free-range chicken.

If it was natural for Helen to ask such questions, it was my duty to answer them.

So it was natural that to earn extra money, Jason and I would buy cool, old cars we found in junkyards for a few hundred dollars apiece.

Nicholas understood that something must have happened between Sonya and Dolokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner.

The natural beauty of this area is perfect for many outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, boating, fishing and skiing.

Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

There Nature has woven a natural selvage, and the eye rises by just gradations from the low shrubs of the shore to the highest trees.

Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince Andrew was natural and pleasant.

Enjoy the city's natural wonders, historical significance and popularity as a centrally-located meeting and convention destination.

Your father, a man of the last century, evidently stands above our contemporaries who so condemn this measure which merely reestablishes natural justice.

Just then Boris, with his courtierlike adroitness, stepped up to Pierre's side near Kutuzov and in a most natural manner, without raising his voice, said to Pierre, as though continuing an interrupted conversation:

They do not see that the role of the natural sciences in this matter is merely to serve as an instrument for the illumination of one side of it.

Her early rages were an unhappy expression of the natural force of character which instruction was to turn into trained and organized power.

It was one of those afternoons which seem indefinitely long before one, in which many events may happen, a large portion of our natural life, though it was already half spent when I started.

Ten years later, in Somalia, the last natural case of smallpox occurred.

TALK SHOULD BE NATURAL AND HAVE FOR ITS OBJECT AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS.

At evening, the distant lowing of some cow in the horizon beyond the woods sounded sweet and melodious, and at first I would mistake it for the voices of certain minstrels by whom I was sometimes serenaded, who might be straying over hill and dale; but soon I was not unpleasantly disappointed when it was prolonged into the cheap and natural music of the cow.

Children and adults alike can enjoy seeing chickens, sheep, horses and farm animals in their natural environment.

If the weather is nice, there are plenty of nearby beaches to visit and even natural swimming holes around.

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

No--in this case I would rather suffer evil the natural way.

The atmosphere of the restaurant is earthy, with neutral tones and natural stone lining the walls.

Regardless of how irresponsible the woman was, she presumably possessed natural maternal instincts for her child.

A natural part of life?

It is hardly as if you had seen a wild creature when a rabbit or a partridge bursts away, only a natural one, as much to be expected as rustling leaves.

It is natural in her state.

As soon as the King began to speak loud and fast his royal dignity instantly forsook him, and without noticing it he passed into his natural tone of good-natured familiarity.

In the weeks of natural stimulation, she had been the one who was embarrassed.

With the natural capacity of an Italian for changing the expression of his face at will, he drew nearer to the portrait and assumed a look of pensive tenderness.

Without that degree of mental development and activity which perceives the necessity of superhuman creative power, no explanation of natural phenomena is possible.

She almost overwhelmed me with inquiries which were the natural outgrowth of her quickened intelligence.

That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way.

If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.

The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could not but believe in the sincerity of those around him.

It was evident that the thought could never occur to him which to Prince Andrew seemed so natural, namely, that it is after all impossible to express all one thinks; and that he had never felt the doubt, "Is not all I think and believe nonsense?"

The same is done by the natural sciences: leaving aside the question of cause, they seek for laws.

We have a natural desire to make beautiful things and a bone-deep need to understand the world we live in and our place in it.

The fact that an unprecedented number of earth's inhabitants today live in poverty is an indictment of governments, not a reflection of some underlying natural limit.

During this three-year period, conveniently named by the Chinese "The Three Years of Natural Disasters," no one really knows how many people died; estimates range from fifteen million to a high of more than forty-five million.

But so far nobody seems to have thought of chloroforming her, which is, I think, the only effective way of stopping the natural exercise of her faculties.

Notwithstanding the activity of Helen's mind, she is a very natural child.

The forest has never so good a setting, nor is so distinctly beautiful, as when seen from the middle of a small lake amid hills which rise from the water's edge; for the water in which it is reflected not only makes the best foreground in such a case, but, with its winding shore, the most natural and agreeable boundary to it.

First are the inefficiencies in the natural processes of agriculture.

Were there no natural advantages--no water privileges, forsooth?

The natural selection process is survival of the fittest.

Carmen had assumed breast feeding would be a natural thing, but as Matthew lay fussing in her arms, it seemed a major obstacle.

There again, it's hard to say whether they die from natural causes or attacks by predators.

Caldwell's natural landscape makes it an ideal place to partake in numerous recreational activities, such as tennis, biking, and hiking at many of the area's trails.

Are those the true and natural sentiments of man?

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.

It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.

A joyous feeling of freedom--that complete inalienable freedom natural to man which he had first experienced at the first halt outside Moscow-- filled Pierre's soul during his convalescence.

Some things are meant to be, and death is natural for humans.

His success convinced him that language can be conveyed through type to the mind of the blind-deaf child, who, before education, is in the state of the baby who has not learned to prattle; indeed, is in a much worse state, for the brain has grown in years without natural nourishment.

Her behaviour is easy and natural, and it is charming because of its frankness and evident sincerity.

The memory must be stored with ideas and the mind must be enriched with knowledge before writing becomes a natural and pleasurable effort.

A natural anchor could be a tree or large boulder.

Whether rafting, camping, hiking, cycling or even taking a hot air balloon ride, visitors are bound to be captivated by the natural wonder of the area.

In addition to the coast's natural wonders, there are a wide variety of eateries to choose from dotted along the coast road.

Enjoy a drink by the fire before your meal or one during your meal in this natural setting.

The restaurant's skylights allow natural lumination to filter into the room, and the natural stones, metals, and earth tones in the décor create a calm, soothing atmosphere.

The menu features pan-roasted trout filet, sauteed mussels, grilled semi-boneless quail and roasted natural chicken.

While soaking in the natural amenities of the area, guests and residents can also sample tasty meals at some of the areas numerous seafood restaurants, which specialize in local and fresh seafood.

Both facilities offer numerous opportunities for hiking and enjoying the area's natural scenery.

After their engagement, quite different, intimate, and natural relations sprang up between them.

And since it had to be so, Nicholas Rostov, as was natural to him, felt contented with the life he led in the regiment and was able to find pleasure in that life.

This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course--a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.

He looked at the slight Natural with dark hair and eyes who happened to have a doctorate in every type of science he could name.

It only seemed natural for them to sit next to each other, and what would feel more natural would probably scare her off.

She felt his arms around her and leaned into him, surprised at how natural it felt to be held against a complete stranger who made her want to flee for the hills and strip naked at the same time.

Rainy nodded, a look of relief crossing his features, and Damian saw his mind was on his Natural ward, Traci.

Rainy's Natural, a beautiful woman with mocha skin and blue eyes, leapt up from her seat.

Rainy, can your Natural trace anything at all within the square?

We can pull in a Natural from Latin America.

Rainy was supposed to protect a Natural he found.

She was nearly as tall as he, a natural blonde or the customer of a very good beautician.

The old man looked defeated, with all his natural feistiness absent, left outside in the sunshine.

We can pull in a Natural from Latin America.

It was the natural yearning of that portion, any portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us.

To humans, it would look like the natural give and take of a long battle.

While not confining myself to any special system of instruction, I have tried to add to her general information and intelligence, to enlarge her acquaintance with things around her, and to bring her into easy and natural relations with people.

He respected the man who raised me, even when I rejected my natural father.

I suppose that's only natural.

I think it's only natural.

She didn't know what he was, only that the ebb and flow of magic and energy between them felt … natural.

Touching him felt too natural.

She was surprised to find the idea of tasting him didn't repulse her, as if the intimate bond with him was natural.

Being with him, naked in bed, was the most natural, right and incredible experience.

Unlike Jonathan, though, Destiny had natural grandparents to spoil her – and they did.

It was obvious that he didn't want to talk about his natural father.

It was unlike what he'd known with his predecessor; this was natural, deep, soothing.

It felt too natural for him to hold her.

The material hugged the natural curves of her body, pooling at the top of her feet.

Hell buffered his natural inability to rein in the magic and absorbed much of his energies.

Built more like the beauties her sister surrounded herself with, Ileana was a natural bombshell with pillowed lips and large eyes.

My brother's people found you and identified your unique gift for…blocking their natural talents.

Rhyn's bond as her mate amplifies her natural ability.

It is the natural way of things here.

He always made sure one of the adults was close by, but his youth and a natural sense of balance helped him to catch on to the sport quickly.

A blue-green tint shone through the sunlight while frozen waterfalls, hanging from the upstream cliffs, bore a hint of the rust-orange hue from the natural deposits of Red Mountain above.

If they died a natural death, I doubt they'd even get a mention.

Dean wasn't sure if it was her natural aversion to anything involving law enforcement or concern for her boss's future.

But the tomato, a berry grown out of its natural proportion by the fiddling of man, at least knew redness was its ultimate goal.

Dean said nothing, hoping the subject would die a natural death.

Dean did the same, hoping its eighteen inch girth was sufficient to secure the two damn fools who were testing it as their sole mooring against the natural forces of nature.

The fact that the other end was also cut must have looked like the natural end of the line.

Jackson mused, that must be natural.

It smelled natural and so minimal he had to search for it.

Is it your natural color?

It has the bay window, great natural light.

Wipe out my only natural enemy.

Combing her hair, she was thankful for the natural curls that softly framed her face.

But then, he didn't expect a woman to be able to work a farm... it wasn't natural.

The cliff's sheer drop created a natural defense against any intruders in addition to providing a view that was breathtaking by day or night.

He had a four-hour helo and hiking trip ahead of him to their nearest secure comms facility tucked into natural cave a few ranges over.

The Ully-demon launched towards him.  The tree snatched Toby and lifted him to safety, and Toby dangled far enough over Ully's head that the demon couldn't reach him.  As he watched, the Ully-demon transformed into its natural form, a creature of wings, talons, and teeth longer than Toby's fingers.

No activity was more natural than spending the day like this biking the Pennsylvania countryside—with Cynthia Byrne.

Pulling her hair back, she squeezed water out of it and then fluffed it with her fingers to release the natural curls.

A large Oak tree had fallen across the creek in a narrow deep area, trapping debris in front of it to form a natural dam.

No one was there to show her how to hold the baby, but the most natural position seemed to be as if she were breast feeding it.

Was it something that came natural to him, or did he have a lot of experience riding?

Maybe the deer had died of natural causes.

It seemed so natural - as if they had always been intimate.

Deer are the mountain lion's natural prey.

Was it natural or a result of practice?

I have the power that runs in our blood, but I don't have any of the natural skills the peasants have.

It'll react differently with your natural abilities.

It was pristine and white, rising out of the ground like a natural formation.

Seeing her name there surprised him, but it seemed only natural a woman he'd watched and admired from a distance so long would be his mate.

The animals are used to seeing us, and the horses often graze with them, so I don't think we will have any problems with the safari animals or the natural wildlife.

That was when Carmen realized Alex was a natural tour guide.

Their natural habitat is from Argentina on north through Central America and into parts of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

If Ed had died of natural causes, he would have been saddened, but this was different.

His brows resumed their natural position as he turned to Gerald.

He had honored her parents – more than he had honored his natural father.

Can you believe he drug out that box of cancer sticks while we were discussing the sale of natural foods?

Solitude in the Natural State.

The owners said there were wild plum and cherry trees, all kinds of nuts and berries - a regular gold mine of natural food.

They call it the Natural State, you know.

To Justin, it all came natural.

She was a Natural.

As long as this Natural didn't show up in Xander's house, he was going to let her go.

"You're a Natural," he said, searching her features.

"A natural what?" she returned.

But that did nothing to explain to him how an oblivious Natural who was able to block his mind power just happened to end up in his home.

I had a Natural show up on my doorstep.

We'd never send some poor Natural where you could reach them.

A quick peek into her mind informed him that April Madera – the personal assistant Ingrid hired – was storming off while the Natural Jessi remained.

They were the same shade of white as the rest of his teeth and seemed a natural extension from his gums.

A peek into the former vamp's mind revealed that two of Damian's sisters-in-law had managed to turn a full vamp back into a disgruntled Natural.

"So we're looking for a record of a Natural who got knocked up by a Watcher about sixty years ago," Jule mused.

"I'll let Damian know we've got a new breed of Natural," Jule said.

She's a Natural, if nothing else.

Every Natural has a talent.

Damian, his three brothers, Charles and Jenn were all gathered in the barn, along with his least favorite Natural, Sofi.

A Natural with the ability to soak up energy and redirect it, the red-haired Magician was channeling everything she pulled from the Others to him.

He went to the university of Leipzig as a student of philosophy and natural sciences, but entered officially as a student of medicine.

First there were the natural sciences, themselves only just emerging from a confused conception of their true method; especially those which studied the borderland of physical and mental phenomena, the medical sciences; and pre-eminently that science which has since become so popular, the science of biology.

Final causes, vital and mental forces, the soul itself can, if they act at all, only act through the inexorable mechanism of natural laws.

To comprehend the real position we are forced to the conviction that the world of facts is the field in which, and that laws are the means by which, those higher standards of moral and aesthetical value are being realized; and such a union can again only become intelligible through the idea of a personal Deity, who in the creation and preservation of a world has voluntarily chosen certain forms and laws, through the natural operation of which the ends of His work are gained.

Why not interpret at once and render intelligible the common conception originating in natural science, viz.

To these may be added the industrial museum, the cabinet of coins, the museum of natural history, the collection of majolica vases in the new palace, and the Wurttemberg museum of antiquities.

Its importance, however, is of comparatively modern growth and in the early history of Wurttemberg it was overshadowed by Cannstatt, the central situation of which on the Neckar seemed to mark it out as the natural capital of the country.

These natural philosophers suggested that equal volumes of all gaseous substances must contain, at the same temperature and pressure, the same number of molecules.

Under the Reign of Terror he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly a year, during which he studied Condillac and Locke, and abandoned the natural sciences for philosophy.

Owing to these natural "locks," the Senegal never discharges less than 1700 or 1800 cubic ft.

Vico held God to be the ruler of the world of nations, but ruling, not as the providence of the middle ages by means of continued miracles, but as He rules nature, by means of natural laws.

It is first displayed in the shape of natural and necessary usages consecrated by religion.

But Vico maintained that the one was continually progressing towards the other, positive law showing an increasing tendency to draw nearer to natural and rational law.

Vico may have derived from Grotius the idea of natural law; but his discovery of the historic evolution of law was first suggested to him by his study of Roman law.

Dupin de Francueil, a farmer-general of the revenue, who married the widow of Count Horn, a natural son of Louis XV., she in her turn being the natural daughter of Maurice de Saxe, the most famous of the many illegitimate children of Augustus the Strong, by the lovely countess of Konigsmarck.

At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.

Casimir Dudevant, whom she married on the 11th of December 1822, was the natural son of a Baron Dudevant.

The duchy afterwards changed hands several times, one of its holders being Charles of Valois, natural son of Charles IX.

It depends, however, in addition on the natural mobility of the ions, and also on the opportunities for convection.

The loss of the dissipation body due to the natural ionization of the air is first allowed for.

Lemstrbm believed atmospheric electricity to play an important part in the natural growth of vegetation, and he assigned a special role to the needles of fir and pine trees.

2), which is about one-half natural size, will give a good idea of A.

The equable temperature of these cellars and their freedom from drought is one cause of their great success; to this must be added the natural virgin spawn, for by continually using spawn taken from mushroom-producing beds the potency for reproduction is weakened.

All Alexius had to do was to sit still, keep out of his father's way as much as possible and await the natural course of events.

Natural gas, piped from the Kansas fields, is used for light and power, and electricity for commercial lighting and power is derived from plants on Spring River, near Vark, Kansas, and on Shoal creek.

Petroleum and natural gas also occur in the plateau rocks in great quantities.

- The state's great mineral wealth is in coals of various kinds, petroleum, and natural gas.

In 1771 Thomas Jefferson described a " burning spring " in the Kanawha Valley, and when wells were drilled for salt brine near Charleston petroleum and natural gas were found here before there was any drilling for oil in Pennsylvania.

Natural gas, like petroleum, was first heard of in West Virginia in connexion with a burning spring on the Kanawha, and there were gas springs on the Big Sandy and the Little Kanawha.

Jn 1841 natural gas was found with salt brine in a well on the Kanawha, and was used as a fuel to evaporate the salt water.

Much of the natural gas is piped out of the state into Ohio (even into the northern parts), Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Maryland; within the state gas has been utilized as a fuel in carbon black and glass factories.

The glass industry began in Wheeling in 1821, and there a process was discovered by which in 1864 for soda ash bicarbonate of lime was substituted, and a lime glass was made which was as fine as lead glass; other factors contributing to the localization of the manufacture of glass here are the fine glass sand obtained in the state and the plentiful supply of natural gas for fuel Transportation and Commerce.

Natural facilities for transportation, afforded by the Ohio river and its branches, the Monongahela, at the northern end of the state, and the Little Kanawha and the Great Kanawha, are of special value for the shipment of lumber and coal.

It also has lycees and training colleges for both sexes, ecclesiastical seminaries, a preparatory school of medicine and pharmacy, schools of architecture, music, commerce and industry, museums of art and antiquities and natural history and a library.

On the bank of the Tiretaine there is a remarkable calcareous spring, the fountain of St Allyre, the copious deposits of which have formed a curious natural bridge over the stream.

ARAN ISLANDS, or South Aran, three islands lying across Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, in a south-easterly direction, forming a kind of natural breakwater.

The town has considerable repute as a health resort, owing partly to its elevation (737 ft.) and partly to the natural charms of the district.

The source of Roman equity was the fertile theory of natural law, or the law common to all nations.

The connexion in Roman law between the ideas of equity, nature, natural law and the law common to all nations, and the influence of the Stoical philosophy on their development, are fully discussed in the third chapter of the work we have referred to.

After a few years the father quarrelled with the Russian government, and went to England, where he obtained a professorship of natural history and the modern languages at the famous nonconformist academy at Warrington.

The elder Forster, however, was soon provided for elsewhere, being appointed professor of natural history at Halle.

It is the principal genus of the natural order of Monocotyledous Potamogetonaceae, and contains plants with slender branched stems, and submerged and translucent, or floating and opaque,.

The knights strengthened Valletta and its harbour by bastions, curtain-walls, lines and forts, towards the sea, towards the land and on every available point, taking advantage in every particular of the natural rock and of the marvellous advantages of situation, rendering it then almost impregnable.

The waterways of Cochin-China communicate by means of natural or artificial channels (arroyos), facilitating transport and aiding in the uniform distribution of the inundation to which the country owes its fertility.

There are a theatre, an interesting museum of antiquities, natural history and art; and a picturesque park (Bjergsted).

The site is one of great natural strength and remarkable beauty, though quite unlike that of other Greek cities in Sicily.

On the east and west the ravines already mentioned afforded, in the main, a sufficient protection, so that a massive wall was unnecessary, while near the south-eastern angle a breastwork was formed by the excavation of the natural rock, 2 which in later times was honeycombed with tombs.

The walls of the dwellings are entirely cut out of the natural rock.

image of a distant body; and the micrometers of Malvasia, Auzout and Picard are the natural developments of this discovery.

There is a museum of natural history; the collection is reminiscent of the famous naturalist Gilbert White, of Selborne in this vicinity.

The coast of Sardinia contains few seaports, but a good proportion of these are excellent natural harbours.

Antioco, joined by a narrow isthmus and a group of bridges to the mainland, forms a good natural harbour to the south of the isthmus, the Golfo di Palmas; while the north portion of the peninsula, with the island of S.

Among the natural flora may be noted the wild olive, the lentisk (from which oil is extracted), the prickly pear, the myrtle, broom, cytisus, the juniper.

Breeding is unregulated and natural selection prevails.

The only place where obsidian is known to be found in Sardinia in a natural state is the Punta Trebina, a mountain south-east of Oristano.

In 1241 Adelasia, heiress of Gallura and Logudoro, was married as her third husband to Enzio, the natural son of Frederick II., who received the title of king of Sardinia from his father, but fell into the hands of the Bolognese in 1249, and 3 Three inscriptions of the middle of this century, set up by the iipXcov Zap8'vias with the title protospatarius, are illustrated by A.

FLOWERS Imitations of natural flowers are sometimes made for scientific purposes (as the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University, which illustrates the flora of the United States), but more often as articles of decoration and ornament.

The veins of the leaves are next impressed by means of a die, and the petals are given their natural rounded forms by goffering irons of various shapes.

The palace contains a picture gallery and collections of natural history and antiquities, and in front of it are two monumental fountains and a monument to the emperor William I.

The principles of construction, the use of stone and cement are the same as in the "elliptical" kraal; there is no definite plan, the shape and arrangement of the enclosures being determined solely by the natural features of the ground.

by bringing about the marriage of his pupil with Mademoiselle de Blois, a natural but legitimated daughter of the king; and for this service he was rewarded with the gift of the abbey of St Just in Picardy.

11 Astronomical inquiries in connexion with optics, meteorological phenomena, and, in a word, the whole field of natural laws, excited his desire to explain them.

The doubt as to the details is natural; it 4 Disc. de methode, part.

MORETON BAY CHESTNUT, a tall tree known botanically as Castanospermum australe (natural order Leguminosae), native of Queensland and New South Wales.