[Footnote 53: Page 32.--This address to the Royal Society of Canada,
to which reference is made in the text, is given in the ninth volume
of the 'Transactions,' pp. xxxix-xl. Dr. Grant could never be
uninteresting, but the address shows his ideas can now and then be a
little chaotic or enigmatic. It is quite evident he has never studied
with much care the volumes of the 'Transactions,' or comprehended the
useful work the Society is doing in its own way. Never an active member
himself, he has not done adequate justice to those who have been at all
events conscientious labourers in the vineyard where he has planted no
seed.]