342 E. W. BERRY AGE OF THE MORRISON FORMATION 



on phenomena that must liave been essentially provincial in character and 

 not continental or cosmopolitan, and, furthermore, continued over long 

 periods of time. Presently we may expect some modern Huxley to 

 enunciate diastrophic homotaxis as opposed to diastrophic synchroneity. 



I am not seeking to depreciate continued eifort to reach results, but I 

 M'ould wish that we all migbt be less dogmatic. The absurdities in the 

 liistorv of science arc not confini'il tn paleozoologist or paleobotanist ; ]ios- 

 sihly, since iinci'tcbi'nte i)alc()/,()()l()gy is older than vertebrate ])ale()zoology 

 or palcoholany. it still ictains nioi'c oi'iginal sin tlian the other two. 



My closijig pica is. then. I'oi' less inrallihility and a bi'oadcr culture in 

 the scientific life. 



