N

FOR THE PEOPLE

FOR EDVCATION

FOR SCIENCE

LIBRARY

OF

THE AMERICAN MUSEUM

OF

NATURAL HISTORY

aaoNiainnw

Vol. IV, No. 2

L 1 (! R ARY
JANUARY; 1938

r"0^(73)Mx.

20 Cents

EUOLUnON

A JOURNAL OF NATURE

AT LAST — EVOLUTION INDUCED CHEMICALLY!

Co-uiU^-itf, i^aiiuyie instiniiion o] iVa«hinyto7t, Station for Experi-ynental Evolution.

Flowers caused to evolve with colchicine See Page 12

I

II

II

Prehistoric Life of California

Charles L. Camp

The Glacial Period
Book Reviews

/. Harlen Bretz
Allan Broms

Fossil Plants and Evolution

William. C. Darrah

Is This Where Life Begins?

(/. S. Dept. of Agriculture

The Shasta Daisy
Collecting Insects
Clerical Embryology

Garnett Russell Bright

Nathan S. Washton

William T. Brewster

In Praise of Natural History

William^ King Gregory

Poor Little Monkey? Guy Lockivood
RESEARCH FRONT:

Animals of Shore and Sea

Pauline H. Dederer

What Snares Sun-Energy?
Speeding Evolution Borderland of Life

Page Two

I,' le V O L L! T I O N

January, 1938

Scientific Advisory Board

Science Editor

Anton J. Carlson

Allan Broms

Henry E. Crampton

Clyde Fisher

Alexander Goldenweiser

eUOLUTION

Contributing Editors

Edwin Tenney Brewster
Melville P. Cummin

Wm. King Gregory

A Journal of Nature

Pauline H. Dederer

Paul B. Mann

Carroll Lane Fenton

Oscar Riddle

For Popular Education in Natural Science

Lucy Orenstein

To Develop the Open Mind

Miriam De Ford Shipley

Managing Editor

Nathan S. Washton

L. E. Katterfeld

Horace Elmer Wood, II.

EVOLUTION'S EDITORIAL FAMILY is growing.
The Scientific Advisory Board is strengthened by the
addition of Dr. Alexander Goldenweiser, Professor ot
Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr.
Clyde Fisher, Curator of the Hayden Planetarium at the
American Museum of Natural History.

To the group of Contributing Editors we welcome: —
Melville P. Cummin, Artist and Naturalist, associated with
the American Kennel Gazette; Mrs. Miriam DeFord
^-.~,^ Shipley, for many years active with Maynard Shipley in
P'*' championing the cause of Science Freedom through the
Science League of America; and Dr. Nathan S. Washton,
Director of Biological Sciences, Kittatiny Camp, Layton,
N. J., and Merit Badge Counselor in Nature Study, Boy
Scouts of America, who will conduct a special Nature Study
column for youngsters.

Some Very Fancy Pussyfooting

LAST summer a discharged school teacher, Laura Morris,
on trial before the school board at Waynesburg, Pa.,
was reported to have defended herself against the accusa-
tion that she had "taught that man is descended from
monkeys" with the statement that she had done no such
thing, but had "merely mentioned it as a joke" !

In connection with this case the Philadelphia Bulletin
interviewed some of the leading school dignitaries of that
metropolis and reports (August 13, 1937): —

No Monkey Theories Taught Here

Both Dr. Edward E. Wildman, director of science
education in the Philadelphia Public Schools, and Dr.
John L. Haney, Principal of Central High School,
join in denying that "the theory that man is descended
from a monkey" is taught here.

"The old theory of evolutionists as to whether man
is descended from the monkey has been over these
many years," said Dr. Haney. "Such teaching is dis-
credited and is not representative of science and so
will not be found in our text books."

Observe the fancy foot work of the eminent Drs. in es-
caping from a tight corner. A straightforward answer
would have made difficulties, either with scientists or with
the fundamentalists in Philadelphia. Sa, hoping to remain
in the good graces of both camps, they speak with a double
tongue and make a statement that can be interpreted in
two ways. The scientist can say: "Technically correct.
Man is not descended from any existing monkey. Man
and monkey are descended from a common ancestor." But
Dr. Haney knows the fundamentalists will not make this

fine distinction. They will approve Dr. Haney's statement,
understanding him to mean that man and monkey are not
related at all and that the fact of evolution itself is dis-
credited. Dr. Haney would have a hard time finding a
single trained biologist in the Philadelphia High Schools or
at the University of P'ennsylvania to support such a posi-
tion. It would make him a laughing stock in the scientific
world. On the other hand, to admit that evolution is ac-
cepted universally in the world of science, and that it is
taken for granted in all serious biology teaching in High
Schools and Universities, would bring the fundamentalists
down upon him. So he pussyfoots.

He is by no means an isolated phenomenon. We merely
mention him since he permitted himself to be quoted.
His attitude is quite general among school officials. Under
present conditions the teacher of intellectual integrity who
refuses to make statements with double meanings, who
gives an unequivocal answer to questions, usually remains
a class room teacher or is "weeded out" long before reach-
ing the higher executive positions in the schools. We
know a few brilliant exceptions, and to them all honor, but
Jesuitism seems a characteristic fitting for survival as school
official in a world half scientific, half fundamentalist.

The remedy? Spread science among the people, until
they learn to appreciate the uncompromising honesty of
the research scientist and demand the same high standard
of the officials entrusted with the education of our youth.

• L .£. K.
"The biologist knows that he is temporary custodian of

riches of an amazing personal kind — riches that multiply
with the sharing — and that for the good of man and of
nations these riches must be shared more effectively."

• — Oscar Riddle.

An Invitation to Biology Teachers

A Committee of the American Association of Biological
Societies has recommended and offered to aid in the forma-
tion of a national association of those who teach biology
in secondary schools. It is a deplorable fact that at present
the 20,000 high school biology teachers are a scattered
host, unable even to make contact with each other and
powerless to cope with the problems that confront them
as teachers of life science. Every high school biology
teacher that would like to help remedy this situation and
aid in the preliminary work of forming a National Asso-
ciation of Biology Teachers is invited to communicate at
once with Dr. Oscar Riddle, Chairman, Committee on
Teaching of Biology, The Union of American Biological
Societies. Address: Carnegie Institution, Station for Ex-
perimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.

evolution, January, 1938, Vol. IV, No. 2. (Whole No. 21) Published monthly by EVOLUTION PUBLISHING CORP., 29-46 Northern Blvd.,
Long Island City, N. Y. Single Subscription |2.00 a year; additional ?1.00 each; Single copy 20c; bundles, 10c each. Application as second class mail
pending at Post Office, Long Island City, N. Y.

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Three

Prehistoric Life In California

By CHARLES L. CAMP
Director of the Museum of Paleontology, University of California

IMAGINE, if you will, a telescope so constructed as to
allow a peep back millions of years into the past.
What would you not give to look through such an instru-
ment— to study the progress of human history through the
ages as though you were looking at a three dimensional
moving picture — or to witness the procession of animal life
during the immense period before the development of man ?

Such an experience may never be realized but one can
nevertheless examine the past by studying the fossils which
are found in the earth's crust. Fossils are the remains,
sometimes petrified, of the life of ages long gone by —
before man appeared as a civilized being.

The most common fossils are shells and bones of animals,
and leaves and stems of plants. We also find tracks, bor-
ings, casts and other products of plant and animal life
such as natural gas, coal and oil — fossil substances of the
utmost importance as reservoirs of power, handed down as
a heritage from the distant past, and of fundamental neces-
sity in our present stage of mechanized civilization.

A glance at the fossil record shows that life has existed
on this earth for hundreds of millions of years — a pro-
digious time in which the whole course of written history
is the mere flicker of an eyelash. The record also shows
that nearly all forms of life have been changing or evolving
in habits, body-form, activity, mentality and emotional
make-up. Little weak forms become great strong animals
in the course of evolution and the great strong creatures
exist royally for a while and suddenly disappear leaving
other little ones to grow up and take their places. The
elephant is descended from a little rabbit-like creature —
the giant dinosaurs evolved from small reptiles about the
size of a rooster.

It appears evident that man himself has not existed long
on this earth. His remains are found only in about the
last one thousandth part of the fossil record. He has evi-
dently been here for not much longer than a million years
and only in the last one-hundredth part of that time — only

in the last 10,000 years at most — has he discovered the
methods of organizing himself into what we call civilized
society. His conquests over the animals of his neighbor-
hood were made by superior intelligence. He learned how
to kill some and tame others. He changed wolves that
killed his sheep into dogs that guarded them, unruly buf-
falo-like cattle into placid milk-cows. He learned how
to ride and harness the fiery wild-horse, the temperamental
reindeer and the nimble South American camel or llama.
He made over the fierce, active wild boar into a fat, lazy
tank of lard and bacon. He captured wild sheep in the
mountains of Asia and caused them to produce more wool,
mutton and less brains. He subdued the elephant and
turned him into a live tractor, but he has never really
changed the elephant because he has not induced him to
breed in captivity. Man has therefore changed his ani-
mals by selecting those which he desired, breeding from
them and killing or neglecting the others. Nature has
doubtless worked in much the same way in the course of
ages — eliminating the unfit and preserving the advancing
types. We cannot be sure of the method but we can be
sure of the fact that most of the animals of the past, in-
cluding man, have been changing or evolving from one
stage to another in the long course of time. Here is a
little of the evidence at our very doors.

Fossils of ancient life are abundant in North America
and particularly so in California. In fact we know more
about the world of life in California just before the com-
ing of man than anywhere else. This record has been
preserved in the asphalt pits of Rancho La Brea in Los
Angeles, in the caves of Shasta, and in many other natural
burial places.

One hundred thousand years ago California was a wild
and savage land. The forests found today in the region
of Monterey extended southward along the coast. The
southland received more rainfall than at present and the
grass grew higher. In this grass-land one might have

^ i *•«-

Painted hj/ Ciiailcs R. Knight

Copinight-cd /iy the Aytierican Mhscudi of i<utnral Ilii^tory

RANCHO LA BREA -^ CALIFORNIA LONG AGO

Page Four

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

seen herds of horses, not very different from the present
wild horses of Asia, snorting stalhons guarding their
seragUos of mares. Crouching in wait for the colts and
strays lay great lions, larger than those of Africa. Bands
of huge-headed, uncouth wolves roamed through the coun-
try following herds of bison similar to those found on the
plains in the frontier days.

In the thickets herds of elephants of mammoth size
rested during the heat of the day and with them foraged
clumsy coarse-haired beasts of slow movement and still
slower wit — beasts with huge claws on the front feet
which they doubled under them as they lumbered along
— these were the ground sloths, related distantly to the
smaller tree-sloths and ant-eaters of South America today.
Stalking through the cypress thickets were solitary, tiger-
like cats with huge teeth, like swords, in the fronts of
their mouths. They killed and ate the sloths and smaller
elephants — pouncing upon them with great force and
driving their terrible sabre-like teeth through the thick
hides — ripping gashes and cutting across exposed vessels.
The remains of the carcasses were gnawed by the wolves
and plucked to bits by the giant vultures — much larger
than the California Condor. Ungainly camels, droves ot
grunting peccaries, an occasional blundering tapir, huge
bears, delicate antelopes and deer, mountain lions, coyotes,
gophers, bob-cats, badgers, skunks, birds, toads, turtles
and all the lesser fry of the present day completed this
picture of wilderness life as it was lived one hundred
thousand years ago in the valleys of California.

Two Million Years Ago

Proceed backward two million years or so and note the
differences in the life of California at that time. Here
again are herds of horses — a little smaller — a little stronger
than those of today. The elephants, mostly of the Mas-
todon group, are shorter-legged, with four tusks instead
of two, and with longer lower jaws, long low heads, simple
teeth and possibly shorter trunks. The ground sloths are
just beginning to straggle in from South America, along
with them are curious animals like giant turtles or arma-
dillos with a dome-like crust of bony scales all over the
back and tiny little feet, tail and head peeping out from
under this big shell — there are the glyptodonts — another
South American group that visited us for a time. The
camels now include some graceful gazelle-like forms and
some with spindling legs and necks like a giraffe.

There are plenty of rhinoceroses and these become ex-
tinct in North America after this time. The bison have
not yet appeared — they will come in later from Asia. Tlie
wolves look and act like hyenas with bone crunching teeth
and short thick jaws. There are no giant sabre-toothed
cats or lions in the Pliocene — their place is taken by a
smaller kind of sabre-toothed cat about the size of our
mountain lion and bearing more delicate sabres than the
Pleistocene form. The antelopes are the predecessors ot
our plain antelope. There are curious little deer with
flattened antlers in this California of two million years ago.

Thirty to forty million years ago the animals of Cali-
fornia were still more different from their successors ot
today. At this time we find but meagre faunas which
must be compared with the well known fossils of the plains
and rockies to make them understandable. The horses were
about the size of sheep, with three toes on each foot, and
with teeth fitted only for browsing, not for chewing hard
grasses. The rhinoceroses were more like the honses than
any rhinos of today. Some of them were rapid runners,
some were stodgy marsh living types. The dog and cat-

like forms were small-brained, less intelligent, slinking,
sneaking forms without the highly developed teeth of
later kinds. Tliere was a group of giant animals called
titanotheres related to the horses and rhinos but with a
double forked horn rising from the end of the nose. These
powerful creatures, in bulk much larger than the present
rhinos and apparently well able to take care of themselves,
became suddenly extinct for some unknown reason. There
were giant lump-jawed pigs and curious big-jowled creo-
donts, (primitive browsing animals, piglike in habits, and
distantly related to the pigs and deer). The elephants had
simple teeth, long jaws, minute tusks and probably very
short trunks — they were much smaller than the modern
elephants.

When Waters Covered the Land

During most of the period before the last forty million
years the parts of California west of the present Sierra
Nevada were covered by the sea. In this ocean lived in
very early times, reptiles related to the lizards and crocodiles,
fishlike in form with fins and flippers, never coming out on
land, even to bear their young.

These big animals also perished — as the whales are des-
tined to do, perhaps in the near future, under the inroads
of man.

While the great fish-lizards churned through the seas and
the flying bat-like reptiles soared above, the land was in-
habited by a strange host of creeping, ambling and rapid
running cold-blooded animals of which the dinosaurs were
the most conspicuous. At this time the most obscure
forms were tiny little warm-blooded hairy mammals related
to our opossums, moles and shrews.

The close of the age of reptiles witnessed the destruction
of a world of life that had been slowly built up during
some 300 million years and was the signal for the develop-
ment of the modern types of birds and mammals that live
about us today. Some of these in turn are rapidly passing
out of the picture. The grizzly bear is now extinct in
California, the giant condor is nearly so, as well as the
California grey whale, and the Roosevelt elk. Even in
Africa the great herds are vanishing before the onslaught
of the frontiersman — just as the bison did in America.
The world is due for constant changes. Change is the
order of the day but man should have some control over
his destiny if he will but use the intelligence which he
may bring to bear upon the complex problems of his
social scheme.

•
A PEEP AHEAD

The next issue of EVOLUTION will bring you "The
Evolution of The Dog" by Leon F. Whitney; "The Dy-
namic View of Nature" by Alexander Goldenweiser ;
"Darwin and Evolution" by Wyman R. Green; "The X-Ray
and Evolution" by C. P. Haskins; and other articles dealing
with current discoveries regarding the process of evolution.

MAKE 1938 AN EVOLUTION YEAR

Without long-winded appeal we ask our readers to sup-
port this effort at popular education for next year. Five ^j
thousand dollars must be raised. Contribute all you can to
the Sustaining and Library Fund. Secure new subscriptions.
Subscribe for friends. Order bundles to sell or give
away. Buy your books through EVOLUTION. It all helps.
And if you have any items that you think would inter-
est other readers, please submit them for publication.

January,

1938

EVOLUTION

Page Five

Fossil Plants and Evolution

By WM. C. DARRAH
Reseaich Curator of Paleobotany, Botanical Museum, Harvard University

FEW fossil discoveries ha\e done more to complete our
knowledge of the continuous evolution of the plant
kmgdom than the discovery of the simplest and oldest
land plants.

Almost eighty years ago — in 1859 — Sir William Dawson
discovered an extremely simple-looking plant in the Dev-
onian rocks of Gaspe. This plant, to which he gave the
name Psilophyton, had little more
than the bare essentials for existence
on land. The shoot, scarcely a foot
in height, had a bit of underground
stem without roots and a series of
forking branches without lea\'es, which
bore small terminal spore cases crowd-
ed with small spores.

For more than fifty years Dawson's
plant was considered to be the inac-
curate restoration of an imaginative
paleontologist, without scientific inter-
est or value.

During the closing years of the
World War two British paleobotanists,
Robert Kidston and Willi;mi Lang,
began a series of investigations on the
Rhynie Chert, which occurs in Aber-
deenshire, Scotland. The Rhynie
Chert is a flint-like rock formed by
the accumulation of silica from silica-
bearing ground water. Fortunately the
silica accumulated in a peatbed crowd-
ed with the successive generations ol
small plants which lived in the swamp
more than 300 million years ago.

It so happened that the silica in
solution acted as a preservative against
decay, and, as a result, not only fossil-
ized the plant debris but also preserved
the microscopical cells and tissues of
the organisms. The life history of
these early Devonian plants is therefore
known in great detail and with amaz-
ing completeness.

Immediately it was recognized that Rhynia, the most
abundant of these Scotch plants, was a close relative ot
Dawson's Psilophyton which had been disregarded tor
half a century.

Botanists enthusiastically received the results of these
investigations on early Devonian plants. Their salient fea
tures are essential to understanding the evolution of all
higher plant groups. These small plants are grouped to-
gether into one "order" technically termed the Psilophytales.
They not only have the extremely simple external appear-
ance of Psilophyton as described by Dawson, but are accom-
panied by an equally simple and undifferentiated internal
organization. The stem is supported by a slender central
cylinder of wood.

The epidermis of the stem contains many breathing
organs or stomata showing that the plant was able to live
on dry land and manufacture its own food, despite the fact
that it bore no leaves which, in more evolved plants, nor-

The Earliest Land Plant

Psilophyton
Reconstructed by Dawson

mally carry on food production. This group of ancient
plants had acquired little more than the bare necessities
of a land existence, eating to live and living to reproduce
their kind. There were no embellishments.

It is not quite accurate to speak of these plants as the
earliest plants although they are almost as simple as bot-
anists can conceive. Within the past two years, very similar
but still more ancient plants have been
discovered in the Silurian rocks ot
Victoria, Australia.

Through these remarkable discover-
ies we can study the anatomy and
reproductive structures of long-extinct
plants in detail.

All of the older Devonian plants
reproduced by spores — small single-
celled structures capable of being dis-
tributed in wind or water and living
independently of the parent plant for
long periods of time. Spores are so
resistent to decay and destruction that
they are familiar fossils, despite their
minute (usually microscopic) size.
For example, a Devonian plant named
Sporocarpon from the vicinity of Dela-
ware, Ohio, is known in its late em-
bryological stages. In figure two, the
photomicrograph shows a cluster ot
four spores, or tetrad, which have
grown from a spore-mother cell. These
spores are 280 million years old.

Spores are sometimes so abundant
and accumulate in such great quan-
tities that they form entire coal beds.
So-called cannel coals and many oil-
shales are largely composed of isolated
spores.

These simple ancestral spore-bearing
plants gave rise to greater and more
diversified plants. Then development
of wood soon made increased size pos-
sible. The great Carboniferous spore-
bearers, such as Lepidodendron, attained an over-all height
of 100 feet even with the obstacle of a scant supply ot
wood. In these trees, the progenitors of our existing lowly
ground pine, the fleshy cortex was so thick that German
botanists have named them "rindenbaume" or rind-trees.
Nevertheless, spore-bearers are limited in their potential-
ities. A large number of spores must be produced so that
the successful germination of a few is assured. This is
wasteful and new races of plants gradually produced fewer
spores of two kinds, male and female, which were supplied
with mechanisms for survival during unfavorable periods.
The culmination of this trend was the evolution of the
pollen (male) and the ovule (female). The fertilized
ovule grows into the familiar seed.

One of great gaps in the story of plant evolution at the
turn of the twentieth century was the transition from the
higher spore-bearing plants, such as the ferns, to the lower
seed-plants, in cycads and conifers, our cone-bearing trees.

Page Six

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

Spores of Sporocarpon

280 millions years old
magnified 100 times

Codonotheca

a pollen bearing organ
from Illinois

The final discovery of the "missing-link" in 1903 veri-
fied a prediction made fully twenty years earlier. The
discovery of true seeds in actual connection with fern-like
foliage fulfilled the requirements for a perfect missing-link.
In 1883 the Austrian paleobotanist Stur noted that among
the abundant remains of fossil ferns of Carboniferous age,
there were many kinds for which no examples of fruiting
specimens had ever been observed. Surely these were not
ferns — even the more negative evidence of the absence of
fruiting examples needed consideration. For a time Stur's
question went unanswered, although in 1899 certain petri-
fied stems were recognized as having anatomical relation-
ships with both ferns and cycads. Upon these stems was
bestowed the name Cycadofilkes, or cycad-ferns. The
paleobotanist was getting close to an answer, but not yet
was he justified at anticipating a conclusion.

It remained for Kidston and Scott in England and the
late David White in America to discover actual remains of
seed-bearing ferns which were immediately classed in a
new group — the Pteridospenns, or seed-ferns. We are
now supplied with sufficient data to know that the names
Pteridosperms and Cycadofilices refer to the same group
of plants.

The pollen-bearing and seed-bearing structures of Illinois
Carboniferous seed-ferns immediately preceded the flower-
ing plants. Botanists generally consider them the remote
ancestral stock of all flowering plants. It is a tremendous

Two Seeds of a Seed Fern

A Nodule from the Carboniferous
200 millions years old

gap between the Carboniferous seed-ferns which lived 200
million j'ears ago and the earliest recognized flowering
plants of 120 million years ago — plants which lived during
the Cretaceous age of dinosaurs. During the intervening
80 million years many profound changes took place with
numerous trials and errors toward the attainment of true
flowers.

There are several so-called missing-links or transitional
types in the evolution of the flower which have as yet
escaped the scrutiny of the paleobotanist. Past experience
has taught us that much of the evidence is probably housed
in collections already preserved in museums but has simply
been overlooked.

Only a century ago the study of fossil plants was in
its formative stages. Gradually a large number of facts,
substantiated by hundreds of important discoveries, has
accumulated, until we are in possession of the whole pic-
ture of the evolution of land plants. The study of paleo-
botany itself has evolved from the days when it merely
dealt with collections of natural curiosities. Today it has
taken its rightful place with the other fields of biological
thought.

The upward course of plant evolution is an irrefutable
fact and the means by which this progress is measured is
nowhere better manifest than in the earliest Devonian
Psilophytales and in the seed-ferns.

Is This Where Life Begins?

From United States Department of Agriculture

THE borderland between living organisms and chem-
ical substances is one of the frontiers of science in
which exploration is active. In this borderland exist the
viruses that cause a wide variety of diseases that aff^ect both
plants and animals, including man. Whether a virus lives
or is a chemical substance without life is a question that
puzzles both chemists and biologists. As exploration pro-
ceeds, the answer is coming more and more to depend
on a finely drawn definition as to what distinguishes living
from non-living substances.

H. H. McKinney, research worker of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, working with the virus of the com-
mon mosaic of tobacco, has developed evidence that the
virus has a very simple mechanism of inheritance. In the
past, scientists have usually regarded inheritance as a dis-

tinguishing characteristic of living organisms. In popular
thought, reproduction or multiplication of a substance may
seem a convincing evidence of "life" but science knows
of many strictly chemical and non-living substances that
increase in a manner which is strongly suggestive of the
reproduction in organisms.

Mr. McKinney has developed evidence that the virus
of common mosaic of tobacco mutates, giving rise to new
viruses which induce mosaic symptoms quite different from
common mosaic. Certain of the many virus characteristics
mutate more frequently than others. Some of the new
virus forms, or mutants, also mutate or give rise to still
other new viruses or sub-mutants. Of the many virus
characteristics of the common-mosaic virus some are re-
tained by its mutants and sub-mutants. Some of the char-

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Seven

acters which are peculiar to certain mutants also tend to
persist in subsequent mutants from these.

Mr. McKinney and other investigators have found that
certain types of virus mutation are more likely to occur
under certain conditions, for example, under the influence
of high temperatures.

The virus cannot be identified under the most powerful
microscope. It will pass through fine filters and retain its
disease producing character. To identify a virus, experi-
menters are driven to observe its effects on the plants it
attacks. The virus multiplies in the plant, but no experi-
menter has been able to cause it to multiply outside the
plant. Some viruses can exist in more than one species ot
plant, and two viruses causing identical symptoms in one
species may be distinguished by differences in the symp-
toms on another species.

Several investigators have experimented with the crystal-

like virus protein. They have been able to dissolve this
and cause all the known signs of the disease in tobacco
and other suitable plants which were inoculated with the
solution. Some workers have considered the crystallization
test as proof that the virus has been isolated as a pure
chemical substance. However, this test alone is not ac-
cepted as positive proof because there is still a possibility
that the virus may be present as an impurity.

Although Mr. McKinney considers that the "virus and
its mutants doubtless reflect a series of closely related
compounds which function essentially as genes," he takes
the position that this conclusion is still consistent with the
idea — held by some investigators — that the virus represents
a complex protein molecule. Some investigators consider
the genes of plants and animals to be proteins. The virus
particles may represent free parasitic genes of a primitive
type, but nevertheless similar to the genes which occur
normally in plants and animals.

The Glacial Period

By J. HARLEN BRETZ
Professor of Geology, University of Chicago

KINDLY visualize a brick. Chicago is built almost
entirely of such bricks. It is also one of the greatest
brick producers. Brick is made from clay. Chicago bricks
from Chicago clay. That's easy to understand. But how
was the clay made? Someone answers "Why, the clay
was here in the first place."

Chicago uses vast quantities of crushed rock in concrete
work. The rock is limestone, blasted out of immense
quarries in and adjacent to the city. These quarries are
located where the limestone is close to the surface. In
most places it is buried beneath 50 to 100 or more feet
of the clay. Now if the clay was here in the first place,
the limestone either was put under it afterward (which is
absurd), or was made before "the first place" (which is
equally absurd). The limestone is beneath the clay and
therefore is surely older than the clay. What you meant
by "the first place" was "before Chicago was started."

Chicago uses vast quantities of sand in its building
operations and in raising its railroad grades above street
grades. Most of this sand comes from the dunes in
northern Indiana, along the shore of Lake Michigan.
"Where did the dunes get it?" That's easier to answer
than "where did the clay come from." Any visitor at the
Dunes sees almost at a glance that the dune sand is simply
the beach sand, swept up from the shore of the lake by
the wind.

The brick clay, the limestone and the dune sand all were
here before Chicago's history began. Only the dune sand
is still accumulating, and its method of origin therefore
perfectly clear. How was the clay made?

If it were necessary to witness the events of the history
of the earth to know of their occurrence, we would know
precious little about the subject. The old earth has been a
long, long, long time in the making, and Man as an in-
telligent observer has been writing records on stone, parch-
ment and paper for only a few thousands of years.

But, happily, the processes by which the Earth has been
brought to its present condition have left indelible, unmis-
takable records of their own. Graven on stone, too, but
the hieroglyphs are wholly different from any that men
ever designed. When we learn to read them, we can

answer that question "How was the Chicago clay made?"
Let's have a look at that clay.

We are standing now on the brink of one of the big
Chicago pits. The steam shovels have dug deeply to the
bed-rock, the limestone. Look at the surface of that lime-
stone from which the clay has been removed. It is as
smooth as a floor. And look at those parallel grooves and
furrows across it, all directed northeast-southwest. Looks
as though some great planing machine has been run across
it. If we go down into the pit and scrutinize the surface
of the limestone more carefully, we find millions of tiny
scratches, as fine as though made with the point of a needle,
and all parallel to the course of the grooves and furrows.
Whatever made the surface of the limestone smooth, what-
ever made those grooves and furrows and tiny scratches —
moved across the bedrock surface either from the northeast
or from the southwest.

A Giant Planing Machine

While we are down in the pit, let's look at the clay
more carefully. It isn't all clay! It has many stones in it,
some three or four feet in diameter. And they have the
same sort of markings on them as the bedrock! Except that
they point in various directions on the same boulder.

We may assume that whatever made the markings on the
surface of the bedrock, also made the markings on the
stones in the clay. Then the clay which contains the
boulders and which lies on the scored surface of the lime-
stone, was made at the time the markings were made.
And isn't it perfectly logical to think that the scratched
boulders and stones were the tools used by our hypothetical
planing machine in smoothing, grooving and scratching the
surface of the underlying limestone?

Here's another significant thing. Many of these stones
are not of limestone. Here's one of granite! Another
of sandstone! A third one of quartzite! Here's another
granite, different from the first! We shortly identify
twenty or more different kinds of rock, none of them lime-
stones. Now where did they come from? There's no
granite under Chicago for half a mile down, as several
deep wells in town tell us. Therefore the boulders of

Page Eight

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

foreign rock must have been brought here in some way
from some place which has a granite bedrock.

Now, what's the next step in our reasoning? You will
probably beat me to the idea before I can announce it.
If the granite and other foreign rock fragments were
brought to the Chicago region, and if in the bringing, they
were scratched and the bedrock limestone here was scratched
and fluted in a northeast-southwest direction, then the
granite, etc., came from the northeast or the southwest.
That it came from the northeast is clear when we find that
there are fragments here from the outcropping bedrock
north of Lake Superior and Lake Huron. Even pieces of
the native copper of the Lake Superior copper country are
found now and then.

The Clay Was Left by Glaciers

But what brought the foreign boulders and stones from
the northeast } What forced them to gouge and plane and
smooth the underlying limestone? What ground up the
softer material to make the clay ? The geological agencies
which shift materials about on the earths surface, and
which wear the material in transit, are waves, streams,
wind and glaciers. Waves never move, or deposit, such
heterogeneous material as clay and stones together, and
they never mark the bedrock m the tashion we saw in the
clay pit. Streams are likewise guiltless. Wind never did
anything of this sort, though, admittedly, the wind does
blow sometimes in Chicago. But the glaciers of our western
mouncains and ot Alaska and of Greenland and ol Ant-
arctica make precisely similar deposits and mark their debris
and the bedrock over which they move, in precisely the
same manner.

So here at last we reach a conclusion that seems perfectly
logical and in perfect accord with the facts. We have used
the scientific inductive method in solving the problem. We
have no alternative explanation except that "the clay was
here in the first place" — and that's no explanation.

Now that we have proved that the Chicago region has
been covered by an ice sheet, you may lay down that brick !
We are going farther afield. We scout about Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and adjacent states. Every-
where we find the same typical glacial record. Wait ! We
fail to find it in southern Illinois, southern Missouri, south-
ern Indiana. We soon find that we can draw a line across
the United States, from east to west, north of which is the
record of glaciation, and south of which none of this
record can be found. The ice-sheet spread from the north-
ern part of the continent down into New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, in one place about 20 miles over into Ken-

The Far Flung Front of the Ice Sheet

tucky, Indiana, Illinois as far south as Carbondale, Missouri,
northeastern Kansas, eastern Nebraska and eastern South
Dakota, most of North Dakota, northern Montana, Idalio
and Washington. All Canadian territory was under the
great ice-sheet. Indeed, the ice-sheet was a Canadian prod-
uct for it centered near Hudson Bay and spread out in all
directions. Yes, it actually moved northward from the
continent toward the Arctic Sea.

The Ice Sheet Made Our Lakes

The influence of that ice-sheet today is manifold. Almost
all of the hills and valleys of the northern states which I
have named are the result ot that glacial experience. Rarely
do we find a region where the bed rock makes up the hills.
Most of them were built up by the deposits made by the ice.
The ice was a gigantic rasp, thousands ot teet thick, armed
below with fragments of rock picked up in its course, and
this wreaked havoc with the pre-existing hills and valleys
of the invaded region. Then, when the ice melted (tor
that is the only way it could be removed) all the detritus
worn and torn ott the underlying rock from Labrador
southward, was left behind, resting on the planed and
smoothed and scratched bed rock floor. (We're back to
the clay pit, again, you see.)

The old river valleys in many places were completely
filled and the streams had to find new courses. Niagara
River is the most spectacular case of this sort. The new
course just happened to cross a cliff of limestone and the
balls of Niagara resulted.

The multitude of lakes ot northern Michigan, northern
Wisconsin and northern Minnesota all owe their existence
to the irregular deposition of the glacial debris. How many
of the honeymooners at Niagara and how many of the
fishermen in the lake country appreciate this ? Oh, well —
you can't blame them! Love and fish are matters of vital
moment — glaciers are not.

Almost all the soils of the northern states are due to
the glaciation. The glacial deposits have been worked over
somewhat at the surface, rain has percolated thru and dis-
solved some substances, organic matter has been added from
the prairie sod or the forest duff ; otherwise we are farming
on the ground-up debris left by the ancient ice sheet which
covered nearly half of North America.

Most interesting, perhaps, is the fact that our Great
Lakes owe their existence to the glaciation. Before the ice
invaded from the north, these lake basins were simply
broad river valleys. The ice sheet was thousands of feet
thick, its surface, if like that of the Greenland and Ant-
arctic ice sheets of today, was fairly level, but its bottom
fitted down to the major pre-glacial hills and valleys. It
therefore was thicker where the valleys were, and there it
eroded more. Then, during the waning of the glaciation,
it lingered longer in these lower places and built up the
southern margins of the basins to make the dams which
today withhold the lakes from flowing to the Mississippi.
New outlets were found, converging to the St. Lawrence.
Niagara, as I have indicated, was one of these post-glacial
outlets.

(To be continued in next issue)

LET'S HAVE YOUR BOOK ORDERS

We'll be glad to send you any American book in print
at the publisher's price. Ordering your books through
EVOLUTION will help to sustain this journal. But please
send remittance with order.

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Nine

In Praise of Natural History

By WILLIAM KING GREGORY

I

OH, LET us give praise unto Natural History;
for she hath revealed the splendor of the heavens,
the majesty of celestial power.
Her fields are Space and the Universe of Light:
her dominion stretcheth from everlasting unto everlasting.
The stirrings of the atom are her province: she dwelleth
among all things visible and invisible.
The motes dance and the stars of Orion move in harmony ;
So shall their music delight her soul.

II

She conjureth the uttermost past: behold the sun travaileth
in labor and sorrow ; but at last the earth, the moon and
the eleven stars spring forth from its side.
When she holdeth up her mirror to man the planets move

in their turn;
the moon followeth its appointed round, the
morning star foretelleth the rising of the sun.
The earth trembleth and the waters thereof are troubled:
the winds blow and the foundations of the great deep are

broken up.
Again the sea is calm: its sands drop down in
quiet pools; living things come forth on to the land.

Ill

The chronicles of the ages are hers ; the generations of
living things are numbered in her book ; the records of
their origins are graven upon her tablets.

She knoweth how soon they end in labor and sorrow ;

they go down finally into the grave.

She interpreteth the writings of the ancients: the wisdom ot

old is hers, and of the tuture she prophesieth.

By her the living are measured and the dead appraised:

Yea, ttiey that have gone before live in her memorials ;

for her labors endure from generation to generation.

IV

All the living creatures of the earth are sought by her:
she hath given them names and made known their place

in the world.
To her nothing that is alive is of no value ; the labors
of the ant are instructive, and the way of the bee worthy
of remark.

She sheweth the antiquity of our descent: nevertheless our
forebears were akin to foolish apes, and their
forebears the smallest of the beasts of the field.

Yet are we not utterly without hope: for she hath declared

unto us a way of salvation.

She hath shewn us the reason for the sinfulness of man.

The origin of his perversity she hath made plain.

We may perchance correct our faults through her instruction,

and her teachings lead to humility and understanding.

So let us give praise unto Natural History ;

for nothing on earth is too humble for her to study

and the splendor of the heavens is open before her.

Animals of Land and Sea

By PAULINE H. DEDERER
Professor of Zoology, Connecticut College

IF YOU have ever on a summer's vacation had the pleas-
ure of exploring some rocky pine-girt island along our
New England coast, you have probably seen, when the tide
receded, many pools left among the rocks, forming natural
and beautiful aquaria. In such tide-pools as these you
may find in abundance starfishes of various sorts, their
cousins the sea urchins encased in round spine-covered
shells, tiny snails tightly fastened to the rocks (relatives ot
the Mediterranean forms whose bodies, when crushed, yield
the Tyrian purple dye), sea anemones as big as apples,
colored red, brown or orange, and thousands of barnacles,
each animal secure within its white tent-like shell.

You will also probably find what you may imagine to
be various kinds of seaweeds, which would prove to be
beautiful sorts of animal communities termed hydroids,
in which each individual, like a many-petaled flower, arises
gracefully from a tiny transparent vase. If, however, a
small lobster-like animal should dart that way, the waving
tentacles would grasp and paralyze it, and finally pull it
down into a central mouth, suddenly become capacious.
The flower-like organism is plainly an animal, since it has
the ability to feel, to move, and to digest food. The sea-
weeds, on the other hand, which they resemble so closely,
show no sign of feeling, do not move voluntarily and are
nourished by inorganic substances which they absorb from
the wi»ter.

There are certain characteristics of living things, whether
plants or animals, which mark them off sharply from their
inorganic surroundings, the water, rocks or sand. These
are: a peculiar chemical constitution, definiteness of organ-
ization, the power to repair themselves as their tissues wear

Cmrlexv American Museum of Natural HMory
A "Basket" Starfish

Page Ten

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

out, the ability to grow and multiply, and the ability to
adapt themselves to their surroundings. Every living thing
in this pool, tor example, is composed of six chemical ele-
ments, always the same six, with which few or many others
may be combined. If we should try to imagine a machine
of some sort which could stoke its own engine, oil its own
gears, repair a break, and finally reproduce other machines
like itself, we should realize how remarkable are the powers

Courtesy American Musewm of Natural History
A Hydroid Colony

of repair, of growth and reproduction in living things
which we take so much for granted.

Returning to our tide-pool we find many conspicuous
examples of the way in which animals are adjusted with
such intricate nicety to the conditions of their environ-
ment. To succeed in any environment, the animal must
be able to secure food and oxygen, to protect itself from
enemies or adverse conditions, and to reproduce its kind.
Animals of different kinds, even in the same environment,
meet these problems in various ways. The rock barnacle
lives secure within its shell, the roof of which is tightly
closed when the tide recedes. But if you splash the water
in the pool, you may see the peak of the roof open, and
small feathery processes reach out and wave about in the

water to gather in food. The snails which crawl slowly
over the rocks will at low tide pull themselves entirely
within their shell, which may often be closed completely
by a little horny plate, making them secure against attack
or drought. Turn a starfish over, and it immediately sends
out hundreds of thread-like projections which touch the
adjacent rock; the threads shorten, and presto — the animal
is right side up. Touch the crown of tentacles of the
sea-anemone or try to pull it off the rock ; the animal will
contract into a slippery ball, and numerous stinging threads
like white cotton libers will protrude from many pores.

One other characteristic of living things remains to be
briefly explained, namely definiteness ot organization. A
plant or animal body can be resolved into elements or
microscopic units which are called cells. They are not
little hollow cases, as the name implies, but extremely
minute units of living matter called protoplasm, with a
peculiar central body or nucleus. These cells are of differ-
erent shapes, being much elongated in muscle and nerve
cells, disc-like in blood cells, and spherical in egg cells.
The living matter composing a cell appears under the
microscope as a tiny mass of granular jelly-like material,
containing the spherical nucleus, and surrounded usually
by a thin membrane or cell-wall. It was of this funda-
mental protoplasm that Huxley wrote in his famous essay
"The Physical Basis of Life". Many experiments upon
cells have been made which demonstrate that the nucleus
is essential for the life of the cell, and that certain peculiar
bodies called chromosomes, which it contains, are the bear-
ers of the hereditary characteristics from one generation
to the next.

The animals that I have mentioned above make their
home along the continental shelf, a sort of gently sloping
extension of every continent, with relatively shallow water.
Here is a region of turbulence, of movements of tide, of
dashing surf, of warmth and sunlight and plenty of food..
The shore is "noisy with the conjugation of the verb —
to eat". Other regions of the sea also have their inhabi-
tants. On the surface are myriads of tiny floating creatures,
food for larger animals. Further down are the swimmers,
great sharks and other kinds of fishes. Down in the re-
mote depths live many kinds of strange fishes where no
sunlight penetrates, where the pressure is enormous and
the temperature is near freezing.

AH these creatures, from their earliest history, have made
the seas their home. But strangely enough, two of the
most impressive types that swim the seas, namely the seals
and whales, evolved from land animals and are really
mammals as their body build shows, with only superficial
resemblance to fishes.

Book Reviews

EXPLORING THE HEAVENS. By
Clyde Fisher. 223 pp. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. $2.50
Modesty is undoubtedly the reason
why Qyde Fisher, Curator of Astron-
omy at the American Museum of Nat-
ural History for many years, respon-
sible for the erection of the Hayden
Planetarium and now its Curator, has
not long ago published a book on
popular astronomy. For a long time
he has been in demand for lectures on
the subject. For years he has been

visiting the observatories throughout
the world, four times he has taken
part in solar eclipse expeditions. He
has studied meteor craters right on the
ground here and in Europe, and has
helped bring together the finest col-
lection of meteorites in the world. Yet
this is his first book on astronomy.

It does not attempt the whole wide
range of the subject, but limits itself
very largely to the solar system, and to
the stars only as the naked eye and
the small telescope sees them. In
short, it presents the subject much as
the Planetarium can present it. Add

chapters on the Origin of Our Solar
System, and A Glimpse of Relativity,
accounts of the great observatories,
and of the Hayden Planetarium, rather
full details on eclipse experiences and
meteor craters, and you have a wholly
delightful and clear account of the
Earth and Neighbor Worlds, the Sun
and Moon, Meteors and Comets, the
changing seasons with their pageant of
constellations and mythology.

As an introduction to modern as-
tronomy the book is outstanding. It
is especially to be commended for its
many select and beautiful illustrations,

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Eleven

including this year's solar eclipse, views
of the Arizona and Esthonian meteor
craters, a model of the mounting lor
the great new 200 inch retlector, and
close-ups ot the wonderful Planetarium
projector. — Allan Br o ins

•

BIOLOGY AND HUMAN BEHA-
VIOR. By Mark Graubard. 413 pp.
New York: Tomorrow, Publishers.
$2.50

The specialists on the subject
throughout the scientific world are
quite in accord that human behavior
results from the interaction of that
biologic organism, man, with his en-
vironment, which admittedly is not
only physical, but social as well. Few,
however, are both competent and dar-
ing enough to employ and apply this
modern truism through all its implica-
tions. Dr. Graubard is in this sense
exceptional; for he is competent as
biologist and psychologist ; and he does
dare to follow through to the social
implications of his studies. In fact
he begins by calling attention frankly
to the existence of both free and en-
slaved sciences, the latter being those
in which free inquiry and teaching are
restricted by established prejudices and
vested interests. Obviously, these are
primarily the economic and social sci-
ences, whose professors must needs
walk softly lest they tread on influen-
tial toes. For himself, he insists on
freedom at any personal cost, and
thinks and writes accordingly.

Alter an excellent introduction on
The Method of Science, he devotes
three chapters to The Animal and Its
Environment, giving a most explicit
summary of our knowledge of living
matter, neural reactions, conditioned
reflexes, functioning ot sense organs,
dynamic equilibriums and physiologic
buffering, in short the essential mod-
ern description of the living and react-
ing organism. Three equally explicit
chapters sum up and clarify the in-
tricacies of cell structure and func-
tioning, the physical basis of heredity
in chromosome and gene, the nature
and origin of mutations, and our re-
sultant clearer understanding of nat-
ural selection and the process of evo-
lution.

To this point the book is just an-
other excellent exposition of recogniz-
ed modern knowledge. But from this
^ point on the book becomes dynamic
and significant. "Human Nature"
becomes a realistic, living result
of inherent capacities shaped by
educational conditioning, and reacting
to the impacting stimuli of diverse,
often changing, environments. "Hu-

man behavior" ceases to be a phrase
and comes to life; one realizes that the
author is talking about things as they
are. One understands better why
others have failed to attain such real-
ism when the author gives the Freudian
Mythology a piece of his scientific
mind, chides the Behaviorists for eva-
sion of social realities and puts his
critical finger very precisely on the
weakness of the Eugenists and their
"program". That weakness turns out
to be racial, caste or class prejudice,
the myth of self-assumed superiority.
That myth or bias is implicit in what-
ever social and economic arrangements
may exist, and will persist while privi-
leged castes, economic classes, impe-
rialistic nationalisms and like social
inequalities demand defense and sanc-
tion from obsequious professors ol sci-
ence. The daring author concludes
quite rightly that the full human po-
tentialities for achievement, and more
specifically for socially considerate be-
havior, cannot even be learned, much
less realized in tact, until inequalities
of economic and related privilege have
been removed from the earth.

— Allan Broms

THE ADVANCING FRONT OF
SCIENCE. By George W. Gray.
364 pp. New York: Whittlesey
House, McGraw-Hill Book Co. $3

Inevitably this up-to-the-minute
book-length report of the news of sci-
entific discovery was chosen as the
current selection of the Scientific Book
Club. Their Review Committee rightly
describe it as "a truly thrilling account
in simple, revealing language, of con-
temporary progress all around the ex-
panding horizon of knowledge. No
living reporter is better qualified than
Gray to present the current news ol
scientific research in terms that convey
the meaning and spirit of the endeavor
without indulgence in false emphasis
or sensationalism." By thus quoting
unstinted praise from a critical com-
mittee of authentic scientists, this re-
viewer hopes to avert the suspicion ot
extravagance in the flattering opinions
he must give of this outstanding book.

Above everything, it attains the first
quality of popular scientific writing,
complete lucidity. It presents each
problem so fully and clearly, yet with
only a necessary minimum of historical
setting, that the new researches and
achievements are revealed in all their
theoretical and practical significances.
This is therefore no mere reporting
of a miscellany of scattered news-facts,
but an entirely coherent account of the

concerted advances on many fronts of
the increasingly interlocking body of
knowledge which we call "science".
That we conveniently divide it into
fields of physics, chemistry, astronomy,
geology, biology, psychology, etcetera,
no longer hides the underlying fact
that the multitude of apparently di-
verse natural laws which science studies
are interrelated basically.

The author is particularly to be con-
gratulated upon an unusual capacity
tor popularization without distortion
of scientific attitude. This appears not
only in the absence of sensationalism,
but in the presence of true explanation.
So many science popularizers succeed
only in telling "what it is about", leav-
ing the reader ignorant of the actual
(usually technical) explanation itself.
But here one gets insight into the rea-
sons for things, with the technicalities
rendered into such simple language that
one reads on without even the con-
sciousness that these are difficult prob-
lems. Of course there are technical
problems quite beyond popularization
even by the skill of Gray, but there
is nowhere that exasperating pretense
of explanation of which so many other
popularizers are guilty.

The up-to-dateness and authenticity
of the book are secured by Gray's
method of gathering his news. He
has gone directly to some seventy-odd
scientific workers in laboratories and
observatories, and from them has
drawn the story of what is new and
important in scientific research.

Necessarily there had to be selection
of material, and the only fault one
finds is the omission of several fields
in which fruitful and vital research
has recently been done. As it stands,
the book deals largely with physics,
chemistry, astronomy, geology, bio-
chemistry and medicine. Archeology,
anthropology, psychology and the so-
cial sciences have perhaps, in the au-
thor's opinion, not made significant
advances in recent years. At any rate
they have not been included in his
story. However, in his concluding
chapter, "The Promise of Science", he
does drive home the fundamental part
that science has and must ever play
in solving our problems, physical and
mental, technologic and social. Within
the limits ol nature's law, man, through
.science, is free to mold his future.
In the effective and proper shaping
of that future of mankind, he insists
on the basic importance of widespread
education in science, and (quoting
Pavlov) on the "omnipotent scientific
method". — Allan Broms

Page Twelve

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

The Research Front

Speeding Up Evolution

DISCOVERY of a method of caus-
ing evolution was announced at
the recent meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences by Dr. Albert F.
Blakeslee, Director of the Station tor
Experimental Evolution of the Car-
negie Institution of Washington.

For some time it has been known
that, among animals and plants alike,
parents transmit their traits to their
offspring by means of chromosomes,
little "threads of lite", on which the
real heredity bearers, the genes, are
located somewhat like tiny beads on
a string. A set ot these chromosomes
is inherited from each parent, carrying
a full complement of genes for trans-
mitting all the various characteristics
of the parent plant or animal. These
merge, and in that merger the charac-
teristics of the offspring are deter-
mined. If nothing has happened to
change the genes, then "like begets
like" and the children will be like
their parents.

But we know that heritable varia-
tions, or mutations, do occur in nature.
The young are not always like the old.
A great many instances have been ob-
served where new characteristics have
come into being. Such mutations oc-
cur when something has happened to
the genes, causing them to transmit to
posterity a message different from that
received from their ancestors. Plant
and animal breeders are constantly on
the lookout for suitable mutations with
which to "breed up" seed and stock.

How to affect the genes and cause
mutations artificially and thus speed up
evolution is a problem that has chal-
lenged the attention of scientists for
a long time. In Volume III, Number
1 of EVOLUTION, Dr. H. J. Mueller
described a method for bringing this
about by means of X-rays. Scientists
in many Agricultural Colleges are now
experimenting on various plants with
this method.

Dr. Blakeslee experimented along a
different line. He tried out the effect
of various chemicals in his effort to
induce hereditary mutations. And he
found that a chemical, colchicine,
would cause mutations in plants,
doubling the chromosomes and genes,
(distinguished from mutations due to
changes within the genes ) .

He reports: "The alkaloid col-
chicine we have found will induce an
abundant production of branches with
doubled chromosome number. When

seeds are heavily treated all the seed-
lings may be affected. Doubling in
adult tissue has been induced by im-
mersion of twigs in solutions and in
agar, by treatment of buds with mix-
tures ot colchicine and lanolin and by
spraying with solutions. By the use
ot colchicine changes have been in-
duced which are interpreted as being
due to doubling of chromosomes in
the following genera: Datura, Portu-
laca, Cosmos, Phlox, Nicotiana, and
several others.

"If control of chromosome doubling
proves of general application, as seems
to be the case, the plant breeder will
be able to work with greater precision
in his efforts to control the evolution
of economic forms of plants propa-
gated vegetatively as well as those
produced by seed. Starting with a
sterile hybrid, a pure breeding double
diploid has been synthesized, having
hybrid vigor and the desirable charac-
teristics of tetraploidy. Doubling the
chromosome number would give en-
larged flowers and fruits to the horti-
culturist. In addition to increase in the
size of the organs of plants, doubling
the chromosome number has changed a
self sterile to a self fertile form,
changed a dioecious to a hermaphro-
ditic race and an annual into a peren-
nial, and has increased winter hardi-
ness. In Zoology the causing of chro-
mosome doubling is an unexplored
field, but it will probably be a fertile
one. Tlie ability to induce chromo-
some doubling therefore is of impor-
tance to practical as well as theoretical
genetics."

{In an early issue Evolution will bring
its readers more details regarding Dr.
Blakeslee' s epoch making discovery.)
•

The Borderland of Life

TWO reports made at a Symposium
on Biophysics, just held at the
University of Pennsylvania under the
auspices of the American Institute of
Physics and the Eldridge Reeves John-
son Foundation for Medical Physics to
apply the findings of modern physics
to solution of biological problems, will
be of special interest to readers of
EVOLUTION.

Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, who achieved fame two years
ago with the successful isolation in
crystalline form of the virus that causes
tobacco mosaic disease, reported the
isolation of two viruses causing disease

in animals. Like the virus of the
tobacco mosaic disease, these viruses
are not small living bacteria, as had
been supposed, but giant protein mole-
cules, resembling the ordinary protein
molecules of protoplasm but larger,
and having the life-like ability ot re-
producing themselves rapidly when in
contact with living matter.

It appears that in these viruses Dr.
Stanley has discovered forms that exist
in the "twilight zone" between the liv-
ing and the non-living, having certain
properties of each, but belonging to
neither. They help to bridge the gap
between the organic and the inorganic
worlds. They furnish one of the most
important "missing links" that funda-
mentalists have always challenged the
evolutionists to find.

The study of these invisible forms,
so small that they pass through the
finest porcelain filters, but capable of
causing many of the most serious dis-
eases in plants and animals, has occu-
pied men of science for many years.
But not until Dr. Stanley isolated the
tobacco mosaic virus was their nature
definitely understood. They are mole-
cules of protein, similar to the pro-
tein that exists in all protoplasm, but
in a suitable environment they seem to
"come alive" and reproduce their kind
indefinitely.

"In view of the properties which
this protein possesses," says Dr. Stan-
ley, "the borderline between the liv-
ing and the non-living tends to be-
come non-existent, for although it pos-
sesses properties which have been re-
garded as characteristic of living
things, such as specificity of host-range
and the ability to reproduce and mu-
tate, it is nevertheless a protein mole-
cule, and as such may be regarded as
non-living."

To the evolutionist one of the most
interesting features of this protein
molecule is that, in common with all
forms of life, it is subject to mutation,
and therefore to the process of evolu-
tion. Such virus mutations have al-
ready been observed in nature, and
have even been brought about artifi-
cially in the laboratory by chemical
means. Through mutation a virus
growing in connection with one kind
of plant becomes adapted to existence
on another plant, or capable of pro-
ducing a different disease from its an-
cestral virus. This protein molecule
seems to be closely akin to the gene,
the heredity bearer, through which the
traits of living forms are transmitted
from generation to generation. It may
be that here we have the key with

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Thirteen

which to unlock one of the doors to
the mystery of life itself.

When Dr. Stanley reported on his
work with tobacco mosaic virus about
a year ago he expressed the hope that
the viruses that cause diseases in ani-
mals and man would also yield to the
technique he had developed. Success
has now crowned this effort.

Other scientists of the Rockefeller
Institute, including Dr. Carl Ten
Broeck and Dr. Thomas G. Wyckoff,
have now isolated the virus that causes
equine encephalitis, a horse disease
similar to human sleeping sickness,
and the virus causing warts on rabbits.
Both of these viruses are also giant
protein molecules, but they differ
enough so that each causes only its own
peculiar disease.

It seems probable that certain dis-
eases have their origin in the mutation
of some protein molecules from their
ordinary harmless forms into forms
that are harmful. Again, certain vir-
uses that produce disease in one plant
are harmless to other forms of life.
Dr. Stanley reports that the virus
which causes ring disease in tobacco
also exists in the potato, but does no
harm, either to the potatoes or to the
humans who eat them.

It has also been discovered already
that by certain chemical methods these
virus proteins can be rendered inactive,
but still capable of giving immunity.
Thus an entirely new road to the study
and conquest of certain diseases opens
up.

"The sole objection" says Dr. Stan-
ley, "to the final and complete accep-
tance of virus proteins as protein mole-
cules is that, although an analogy of a
protein reproducing itself in the test
tube is known, the self-production of a
protein in the living cell is today not
an accepted chemical reaction. Imme-
diately we are forced to the inside of a
living cell we are faced with a set of
conditions that we have not fathomed
as yet. The virus protein is apparently
imbued with something of which today
we are ignorant.

"Knowledge of the mechanism by
means of which a given huge mole-
cule-like protein, when introduced in
a certain cell, is able to bring about the
organization of the amino acids and
cellular constituents, with formation
of exact duplicates of the introduced
entity, is of tremendous importance,
for this mechanism is the basis of bio-
logical activity.

"The virus proteins, because of their
abundance and stability, furnish us
with adequate working material for a
study of this mechanism."

What Snares
Sun-Energy?

EVERY school boy has heard that
chlorophyll makes plants green,
and that by means of chlorophyll the
energy of sunlight turns water and
carbondioxide into plant substance,
thus creating the primary food upon
which all animal and human life de-
pends.

Now comes Dr. Ondess L. Inman,
director of the Charles F. Kettering
Foundation for the Study of Chloro-
phyll at Antioch College and tells us
that this is not quite correct. No scien-
tist knows as yet exactly what chloro-
phyll is and just how it does this work
of turning inanimate matter into living
substance, without which none of us
could exist. But in common with a
great many other research workers Dr.
Inman fias been studying this matter,
and he has just found out something
that no one knew before and that may
prove to be of tremendous importance
to the future of the human race.

He has discovered that the extracted
chlorophyll, which is being studied in
the laboratories is not quite the same
as the chlorophyll as it exists in the
green plant, and that there is another
substance within the chlorophyll of liv-
ing plants that serves as the actual
harnesser of the sun's energy. This sub-
stance seems to be destroyed in the
chemical process of chlorophyll extrac-
tion, but he has proved its existence
by means of the spectroscope and also
by various chemical tests. But he has
not yet succeeded in "isolating" it, so
that we can not yet be sure about its
nature. Dr. Inman says that it appears
to have a relation to the chlorophyll
similar to that of the protein molecule
globin to the hemin in the blood,
forming the more complex hemo-
globin, and that it probably consists of
a protein and a fat.

A high speed ultra-centrifuge will
now be used to "isolate" this newly
discovered substance from the chloro-
phyll. This process is a little like that
of the common cream-separator, which
"isolates" the cream from the milk.
This is the same apparatus with which
the scientists at the Rockefeller Insti-
tute for Medical Research have isolated
the tobacco mosaic virus and proved it
to consist of extra large protein mole-
cules.

If this experiment is successful it
may have far reaching consequences.
It may enable us to learn how to do
artificially this work done by green
plants of storing up the sun's energy,
and how to make starches and sugars
out of inorganic materials.

The Shasta Daisy

By Garnett Russell Bright

EXPERIMENTING with the Amer-
ican daisy many years ago, Luther
Burbank noticed that one bush had
whiter blossoms than any other of the
thousands that he had cultivated. With
this plant Mr. Burbank began fifteen
years of effort to produce a daisy of
the purest imaginable white.

First he crossed the American ox-eye
with its English cousin by taking pollen
from the English daisy and fertilizing
the American daisy. Flowers from
the seed thus produced were larger
and bloomed earlier than either parent,
but all had a yellowish tinge instead
of the pure white that he wanted.

Next he crossed this hybrid with
the German ox-eye, which made only
a slight improvement. After five or
six years of selecting the best of this
hybrid with its three parents he suc-
ceeded in raising a much superior
daisy, larger and more beautiful m
form and just as rugged and prolific,
but still lacking the snowy whiteness.

Then he learned of an Asiatic daisy,
a coarse plant with an ugly leafy
flower, which had the quality he want-
ed: it was pure white. He obtained
seed of this daisy from Japan, brought
it into blossom and crossed the pollen
with his best hybrid daisy, the product
of three parents and many years work.
The first season's bloom from these
seeds were disappointing, but the sec-
ond season one plant had flowers as
beautifully white as the Japanese daisy,
larger than the largest ever brought
into blossom. It also had the grace
of the American plant and was as vig-
orous and hardy as any of the four.

Each year for several years he raised
thousands of seedlings having these
four ancestral strains from three con-
tinents, kept the best plants each season
and destroyed the others, until at last
the wonderful flower known as the
Shasta Daisy was produced.

Having succeeded in this, Mr. Bur-
bank proceeded to cultivate slight dif-
ferences in his various blossoms until
now the Shasta Daisy has several
strains. The Alaska has larger and
more numerous blossoms and longer
stems than the original or parent Shas-
ta. Westralia has blossoms of even
greater size and very long stems.

It is true that these variations have
arisen under artificial conditions ; but
it is also true that there is nothing in
these conditions that may not also oc-
cur in nature.

Page Fourteen

Nature Study Notes

Monthly Feature for Study Groups

By Nathan S. Washton

Merit Badge Counselor, Nature Study.
Boy Scouts of America

COLLECTING INSECTS

THE reader should make a collection
of insects for study. An econom-
ical method for preserving specimens,
suitable for the beginner, is as follows :
On the bottom of a cigar box or simi-
lar box glue some strips of corn-pith,
or slices of large cork stoppers, into
which pins can easily be stuck.

Pin the collected insects to the cork,
leaving the head of the pin sufficiently
above the insect to grasp it with the
fingers. Be careful not to have the
insect too far down on the pin, as its
legs would touch the box and break off.

Insects may be killed by immersing
them in alcohol for a few minutes.
Butterflies and moths may be killed
by pressing the body with thumb and
forefinger just enough to kill without
crushing them. The fumes of benzine
or ether will also kill insects.

It is best for several friends to go
together in search of specimens, as the
activity and success of one will en-
courage the others. Good places for
collecting are the waysides, borders of
woods, gardens, fences, lakeshores,
brooks, under stones and stumps, the
bark of fallen trees, or beneath the
layers of dead leaves.

EXAMINING INSECTS

Observe that insects having three
pairs of legs have the body divided
into three parts, the head, thorax and
abdomen, and that with few exceptions
they have wings. These are called
True Insects, or Hexapods, meaning
"six legs". The ant, fly and wasp have
the three parts of the body distinctly
separated, but in certain beetles they
are so close together that it is difficult
to distinguish the dividing line. Exam-
ine at least four different types of in-
sects and note the head, thorax and
abdomen.

Find the mouth, the eyes and the
feelers or antennae. The mouth is on
the under side of the head. It parts
vary greatly in different insects. In
those that chew their food, such as
beetles and grasshoppers, some of the
mouth parts serve as teeth or jaws,

EVOLUTION

and, being joined to the right and
left sides of the mouth, move side-
ways and not up and down as in
other animals. In the bugs proper
some of the mouth parts are very sharp
and slender, forming a long sharp
sting to suck the juices of plants. In
butterflies they form a long slender
tube for sucking the nectar of flowers.
In the common house fly the mouth
parts appear as a proboscis, a fleshy
appendage which is bent up when not
in use. Watch a fly as it feeds. Its
proboscis is unbent, and the food is
lapped up by it.

In the butterfly and moth, observe
the long tongue, looking like a watch
spring. It may be uncoiled with a
pin. On the front of the head are
two feelers or antennae. These are
variously jointed, and vary greatly in
different insects. In butterflies the
antennae are generally long and slen-
der and swollen at the tips, resembling
drumsticks. In some moths they are
barbed on the sides and look like
feathers.

On the sides of the head are round
smooth places, the eyes, entirely dif-
ferent from the eyes of other animals.
Under the microscope they are seen
to be divided into little spaces, like
the surface of a honeycomb. Each
little space represents an individual
eye. Some insects have hundreds or
even thousands of these little spaces
or eyes, called compound eyes. With
the microscope you may see three mi-
nute dots under these compound eyes.
These are called simple eyes. In many
insects, as in Dragon flies, the com-
pound eyes are very prominent, en-
abling them to look backwards as well
as forwards.

•
Darwin and the Beetle

"No pursuit at Cambridge gave me
so much pleasure as collecting beetles.
It was the mere passion for collecting,
for I did not dissect them, and rarely
compared their external characters with
published descriptions, but got them
named anyhow. I will give proof of
my zeal: one day, on tearing off some
old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and
seized one in each hand; then I saw
a third and new kind, which I could
not bear to lose, so that I popped the
one which I held in my right hand
into my mouth. Alas ! it ejected some
intensely acrid fluid, which burned
my tongue so that I was forced to
spit the beetle out, which was lost, as
was the third one." — From Charles
Darwin: Autobiography and Letters,
Edited by his son, Francis Darwin.

Janua

ry.

1938

Mosquito Music

SOME time ago under the heading
'Mosquito Ignores Darwin" the
N. Y. Herald Tribune published with-
out comment the following epistle
from one Richard Lester:

"Last night I was awakened from
my slumbers by a familiar jewsharp-
ian sound approaching my right ear.
When I felt a hairlike touch on my
face I whacked, and another Jersey
mosquito bit the dust.

"It occurs to me that the song of
the mosquito, far from aiding said
species to survive, helps them to
reach mosquito heaven sooner. Why
is it that in the struggle for mos-
quito existence the singing variety
haven't long ago been selected out
as less fit, and silent mosquitoes
been left to inherit the earth and
me? That's the way things are sup-
posed to happen, according to the
best evolutionary doctrines of
Charles Darwin. Can it be that the
tunes struck up by this tiny creature,
as it wings its way earward, disprove
Darwin's venerated doctrines?"

Nay, nay, friend Lester, it can NOT
be. 'That buzzing sound seems to be
an important feature of the love-life of
the mosquito, whereas whether you
whack a mosquito more or less is of
but little moment to the mosquito
species. Dr. C. H. Curran, entomol-
ogist of the American Museum of Nat-
ural History tells us that the buzzing
sound serves to attract the male mos-
quito. Of all the billions of mos-
quitoes that buzz, only now and then
one is heard and whacked by a hu-
man being. Most of them suck juices
of plants or animals not so well equip-
ped for mosquito whacking as man.

The Monkey's Paw

Two men argued evolution ;
Its believer nothing said,
But he used good elocution
When he scratched his itching head.
Elmer William Gardnier.

3 Subscriptions for $3

Here's a special offer for Xmas.
Send us $3 with the addresses of three
friends and we'll put them on the
E'VOLUTION mailing list for a year
and send neat gift cards to reach
them before Xmas mentioning you as
the donor.

January, 1938

EVOLUTION

Page Fifteen

I

Fundamentalist Follies

CLERICAL EMBRYOLOGY

By E. T. Brewster

T'S old stuff; but it turns up again,
quoted by the Bible {Ex) -Cham-
pion, that is now a portion of Chris-
tian Faith and Life {Apr. 1931, p.
182).

"There are radical differences be-
tween the embryos of vertebrates and
invertebrates. Worms and other ar-
ticulates in embryo lie doubled back-
ward around the yolk, while all ver-
tebrates are doubled in the opposite
direction. According to the theory
that the embryonic condition is a re-
capitulation of the stages of organic
evolution, this fundamental fact of in-
vertebrate embryology ought to have
been preserved by the vertebrate.
Evolution gives no account of this re-
versal of position by the vertebrate."

Of course, it is not true that "all
vertebrates are doubled in the oppo-
site direction" — as any bright under-
graduate who has begun embryology
could have told the two Doctors of
Divinity who are perpetrating this par-
ticular piece of Fundamentalist non-
sense. The most important branch of
the vertebrates for us, namely the
higher mammals, have almost no yolk
to their eggs and so can't double round
it either way.

Neither do most "invertebrates."
The fact is, what our D.D.'s, follow-
ing the zoology of a century ago, lump
together as "invertebrates," really com-
prises no fewer than fifteen of the great
divisions of the animal kingdom, each
of them equivalent as a system to all
the vertebrates together. So there is,
naturally, nothing whatever that can
be predicated of "the embryos of in-
vertebrates" beyond the not very illu-
minating fact that most of them do
reproduce in some way. Most "inver-
tebrates," like all mammals, have mi-
nute eggs with no yolk mass. Nat-
urally, they do not "double round"
what does not exist.

Nevertheless, certain "worms and
other articulates," in particular, the in-
sects, really do "lie doubled backward
around the yolk" — unless one prefers
to call it that the "articulates" double
frontways, and that such vertebrates as
double at all, bend the wrong way.
^ But who except a Fundamentalist
^ has ever supposed that the vertebrates
are descended from any insect.' What
point, then, in the way either doubles
round its food supply?

Both the insects and the vertebrates
are, indeed, supposed to be descen-

dants of a common ancestor. But all
evidence goes to show that this com-
mon ancestor was very much too primi-
tive a creature to have provided his
offspring with any sort of ample food
supply. His embryos, if they had yolk
masses, might puzzle "evolution". But
they did not. So why bother?

Both vertebrates and insects, then,
start from an ancestry with small
eggs. The embryos themselves have
evolved along with the adults. Both,
quite independently, have evolved
large eggs with abundant yolk. Why,
then, should anybody but a Funda-
mentalist D.D. expect to have the two
doubled round their food-supplies in
the same way?

Funnymentals

"I believe what I was taught, and I don't
think that I ought to think." Argument of
a Fundamentalist refusing to subscribe.

"Evolution is a fraud. It is a blank un-
proved theory, unsupported in fact. It is
illegal to teach it in tax supported schools.
Under the common law it is blasphemy."
Rev. L. S. Hoover, at Free Methodist
Church, Ithaca, N. Y.

"The Christian Church must repudiate
the most subtle and monstrous lie that the
devil has ever thrown into the face of the
Son of God, and drive the whole diabolic
spawn of evolution into the nethermost
depths of hell where it belongs, when finally
the Angel of the Apocalypse puts the lid
upon the pit and bottles up the whole pes-
tiferous tribe, there to await the final judg-
ment of an insulted God." Rev. Levi Bird,
quoted by San Antonio Bible Institute.

Boners From Exams

Isostasy is the place where earthquakes
come from.

The chief argument against the nebular
hypothesis is that it would make the sun
revolve around the earth every few minutes.

Food that is not used leaves the body as
a foetus.

The law of recapitulation: Animals are
recapitulated by immigration.

Mosaic vision was the vision Moses had
in the wilderness.

Darwin was a very famous man because
he discovered the science of relativity and
wrote a book on it.

Cuvier made a careful study of all ele-
phants extant, and proved that they were
totally different from fossil shells.

Bricks and Bouquets

"I consider EVOLUTION a cheap, nasty
little magazine, and one that would militate
against frank and open discussion of any
problem. I am most sorry that it is going
to be revived. As for some of the names
on your staff, I have watched them for
years, trying to prove that they are an im-
provement on the ape, and I haven't found
that they have established their cause."
William Procter.

"I enjoyed the first number of the new
series. If future numbers will carry the
same message and adhere to a similar high
standard, the journal is bound to succeed."
Wm. C. Darrah.

"You are one of the best examples of
perseverance I have ever met, and we need
you to inspire us when skies are dark and
faith is weak. May success crown your
efforts." Oswald Schlockow.

"I recently received EVOLUTION--Got
a glimpse of it only, when some thirsting
soul also glimpsed it and put it in his
pocket. He has good judgment, may it do
him oodles of good." W. T. DeCoster,
M.D.

"Congratulations on your resumption of
the publication of EVOLUTION. Wish you
all the success you deserve." Theodore C.
Ahell.

"Am glad you did not pussyfoot in nam-
ing the mag. Evolution is an established
fact, and there is no use beating around the
bush when speaking of it. Seems to me if
you had more of the criticisms and carping
allusions from ministers and others it would
make more popular reading. Take a good
healthy whack at them like Ingersoll used
to do. Some of them can call names, but
they can't really answer the evidence for
evolution." A. L. Faunce.

"Please do me a favor and discontinue
sending EVOLUTION. To my ethics it
is very disgusting and anarchistic. Who-
ever had the audacity to send you my name
must be some poor simple minded creature,
whose weak mind was easily turned by the
absolute rot and fairy tales contained in
your magazine. Here's to your complete
failure." Mrs. John Borkosky.

"I am very glad that you are again able
to take up your fight against ignorance and
superstition. Never was such a fight more
necessary than now." Harrington Johnston.

"EVOLUTION should be placed in every
school and library, as well as in the home«
I sincerely hope for the success of your
efforts in placing before the people the facts
disclosed by research, and helping to break
down the prejudice which is so prevalent."
Elza E. Hadley.

Page Sixteen

EVOLUTION

January, 1938

POOR LITTLE MONKEY?

They tell me man from monkeys came,

With this I might agree.

But, Gosh aH Friday, it's a shame,

Or seemeth so to me,

To class a monkey with a man.

Here I arise to say

It isn't fair, denounce the plan ;

I just stand for 'fair play'.

What has a monkey ever done

To merit such abuse?

He lives as Nature's loving son;

Fashions no creeds obtuse ;

He doesn't smoke, he doesn't chew.

Nor drink 'white mule' or beer,

And to his mate he's kind and true.

Nor rules his child with fear.

He doesn't work for any "boss",

Out in his forest, wild.

But shares his gains, likewise his loss,

With kindred undefiled.

He never built a "private" fence

Around his cocoa tree.

Nor put up signs "Keep off the Grass!".

In Nature he is free.

The monkey, far as I can see,

Has lived life as he should.

You say man came from monkey? — Bah!

That theory is no good.

At least — if it is really true.

Get ready, pack your sack.

For I am sure that I can show

We really should GO BACK.

Gtiy Lockwood.

Please note our new address:

29-46 Northern Blvd., Long Island Qty, N. Y.
where E'VOLUTION has established an office. This is at
Queens Plaza, near all subways. Phone: Stillwell 4-8172.

Is your name spelled correctly

on the wrapper in which you received this issue of
EVOLUTION? Please send all corrections of name and
address immediately, as our mailing list will soon be put on
stencils. With address changes give your old as well as
your new address.

High school biology teachers

find that EVOLUTION arouses student interest. Try
this issue. Special school rate, 20 for $1.

We need the following back numbers

to complete EVOLUTION sets for libraries: Vol. I,
numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10; Vol. II, numbers 1, 2; Vol.
Ill, numbers 1, 3 and 4. Please return these old numbers.
Write your own name and address on the package, so we
can credit your subscription.

Evolution expects to publish regularly

from now on. We shall of course extend all subscrip-
tions for the months that we have missed.

Ask your friends to subscribe

■You'll be doing them as well as EVOLUTON a favor.
$2. per year. Special: — three subs, for three dollars.

FRIENDS OF SCIENCE FREEDOM

Here are the friends who have contributed to the EVOL-
UTION Sustaining and Library Fund since the appearance
of our last issue, and thereby made the publication of this
journal possible. Every upholder of Science Freedom will
join us in appreciation for their generous support. It
means that they have paid for EVOLUTION to be sent
to six hundred and seventy public libraries for next year.

LIBRARY FUND CONTRIBUTIONS

Oscar Riddle 10., Perry Burgess 10., Alfred Harcourt 20., K. George
Falk 5., Oscar Wintersteiner 3., Eric Ponder 3., Mrs. M. Hare 50.,
I. Greenwald 10., Helen Tee- Van 5., Marie E. Loomis 1., Gardner
Hopkins 10., E. R. A. Seligman 5., R. M. Yerkes 5., Wallace E.
Pratt 10., H. Johnston 2., W. F. Rudd 10., S. W. Narregang 3.,
Frank Hart 2., E. A. Hooton 5., A. C. Redfield 10., E. D. Brown 5.,
James Craig 1., C. E. Davison 2., B. Moore 1., Jos. Kalmanoff 25.,
I. D. Singer 1., L. Sprague de Camp 25., C. B. Lastreto 1., Mrs.
Shapovalov 1., J. P. M. Vogelaar 2., Francis Scliofield 1., J. Shelton
Horsley 3., 'W. E. Lower 10., Henry G. Teigan 5., R. S. Bassler 5.,
H. G. Ferguson 5., Mrs. M. B. Leonard 3., H. B. Baker 8., Sincere
Admirer 5., H. Lilienthal 1., Nahum Kavinoky 5., H. L. Wieman
3., Elizabeth Oilman 11., H. Sigerist 8., D. H. Rowland 3., Carl C.
Taylor 5., F. B. Sillsbee 5., Albert R. Merz 5., Mrs. J. O. Koepfli 5.,
Gerald Wendt 1., Ethel Clyde 300., J. Sanders 10., Esther Richard
5., Fitzgerald Dunnin'? 10., Hugh Monroe, Sr. Jr., 5., Total $670.

•

Join This Goodly Group

and help carry the publication load. Five thou-
sand dollars must be raised for the year. Every
dollar that you contribute will pay for one Evol-
ution subscription for some public library or
C.C.C. Reading Room.

Over 1600 C.C.C. Reading Rooms

form the cultural centers for three hundred
thousand young fellows. Many have been to High
School and have studied a little biology. All of
them are out in the open, and just the right age
to appreciate EVOLUTION. 'What more worth
while educational effort can you conceive thar
to help introduce them to E'VOLUTION. Sen
your remittance at once, so that they may ALL
start with this January number.

EVOLUTION

29-46 Northern Blvd., Long Island City, N. Y.

a

Cyay/o/'a ^^^
MULTIBIMDER

'" Syracuse. N, Y-
' Slotkton, Calif.

fC^