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When It was proposed to build this line, the phy sicians of the country met and for mally protested against It “Locomo tion, by the aid of any kind of steam machines whatever,’’ the Bavarian physicians declared, “should be pro hibited In the interest of the public health. The rapid movements cannot fall to produce In the passengers the mental aliment called delirium furlos um. Even admitting," the protest went on, "that travelers will consent to run the risk, the state can do no less than protect the bystanders. The sight alone of a locomotive passing at full speed sufflees to produce this frightful malady of the brain. It is. at any rate. Indis pensable that a barrier at least six feet blgb, should be erected on both sides of the track.” A Tell of Mist Rising at morning or evening from some low land, often carries In Its folds tbe seeds of malaria. Where malarial fever prevail no one Is safe, unless protected by some efficient medicinal safeguard. 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Poulton In hie presidential address before the geological section of the British association related to the length of time required for the development of animal life on the earth to its present condition, says Popular Science Monthly;, “whether the pres ent state of paleontological and soolog ical knowledge diminishes or increases the weight of the opinion of Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, that the time during which the geologlBta concluded that the fossiliferous rocks had been formed was utterly insufficient for or ganic evolution.” The arguments of the physicists, derived from the sup posed effect of tidal action upon the length of the day, and from the esti mated length of time occupied by the earth in cooling from an assumed tem perature to its present condition, are shown to have been proved invalid as bases for calculating the probable age of the earth as. a life-bearing body. The argument derived from the sup posed life of the sun has not yet been ruled out and that gives a maximum of 500.000. 000 years. The computation of the time required for depositing the geological strata gives a minimum of 73.000. 000 and a maximum of 680,000, 000 years—possibly 400,000,000 years. The author’s Inquiry as to how much of the whole scheme of organic evolu tion has been worked out in the time during which the fossiliferous rocks were formed does not deal with the time required for the origin of life or for the development of the lowest be ings with which we are acquainted from the first formed beings of which wo know nothing; but only with so much of the process of evolution as we can infer from the structure of liv ing and fossil forms. vjuipaiiDuu in uittuv iiuiu a study of the evolution of the phyla. All available evidenoe points to the ex treme slowness of progressive evolu tionary changes in the coeienterate phyla, although the protozoa are even more conservative. When we consider further on the five coeienterate phyla that occur fossil we Bhall find that the progressive changes were slower and Indeed hardly appreciable In the echl noderms and gephyrea, as compared wltht the mollusca, appendlculata antf vertebrata. Within these latter phyla ere have evidence for the evolution of higher groups, presenting a more or less marked advance in organization. As a whole, the comparison Is, quite enough to necessitate a very large in crease in the time estimated by the geologist. We can hardly escape the conclusion that, for the development of the arthropod branches from a com mon chetopodlike ancestor and for the further development of the classes of each branch, a period many times the length of the fossillferous series is re quired. The evolution of the ancestor of each of the higher animal phyla probably occupied as long a period os that required for the evolution which subsequently occurred within the phy lum. 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