The Naturalist as interpreter and seer . strono-mer or a physicist—for instance, my friend SirWilliam Thomson—tells me that my geologicalauthority is quite wrong; and that he has weightyevidence to show that life could not possibly haveexisted upon the surface of the earth 500,000,000years ago, because the earth would have then 1 teentoo hot to allow of life, my reply is: That is notmy affair; settle that with the geologist, and whenyou have come to an agreement among yur-selves I will adopt your conclusions. We takeour time from the geologists and physicists, andit is monstrous that, having t

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The Naturalist as interpreter and seer . strono-mer or a physicist—for instance, my friend SirWilliam Thomson—tells me that my geologicalauthority is quite wrong; and that he has weightyevidence to show that life could not possibly haveexisted upon the surface of the earth 500, 000, 000years ago, because the earth would have then 1 teentoo hot to allow of life, my reply is: That is notmy affair; settle that with the geologist, and whenyou have come to an agreement among yur-selves I will adopt your conclusions. We takeour time from the geologists and physicists, andit is monstrous that, having taken our timefrom the physical philosophers clock, the physi-cal philosopher should turn round upon us, andsay we are too fast or too slow. What we desireto know is, is it a fact that evolution took place ?As to the amount of time which evolution mayhave occupied, we are in the hands of the phy-sicist and the astronomer, whose business it isto deal with those questions. 121 Fore Foot. Hind Foot. Fore-arm. Leg. £pper Molar.. FIGHTING PESTS WITH INSECT ALLIESLelaxd O. Howard [Dr. Howard is Chief of the Division of En1the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington.He is a lecturer at Swarthmore College and at Geo:-.University. He has written The Insect Book, publishedby Doubleday, Page & Co., New York; and a v.quitoes, issued by McClure, Phillips & Co., New Yrk. Bothare books of interest from the hand of a master: they are.fully illustrated. The narrative which follows appearedin Everybodys Magazine, June, njoi.j) Some twenty-five years ago there appearedsuddenly upon certain acacia trees at MenloPark, California, a very destructive scale bug. It rapidly increased and spread from tree totree, attacking apples, figs, pomegranates, quinces, and roses, and many other trees andplants, but seeming to prefer to all other foodthe beautiful orange and lemon trees whichgrow so luxuriantly on the Pacific Coast, andfrom which a large share of the income of somany fruit-growers