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God took material nearest fitted for His purpose, and in har- 
mony with a method found all through nature, propagation by 
fission, caused from a part of the man a woman to grow. It 
seems to me that this was closer to nature’s methods still in 
operation—like producing like—than such changes in another 
simian, as occurred when one changed to a human being, and 
became in the sense which we all understand, but shall never 
comprehend, a living soul. 
It will seem strange to many that the study of the mira- 
cles of the Bible has Jed to the support of evolution, so 
strange, that I fear it may hinder their giving due weight to 
the argument. But, although some advocates of evolution may 
appear to desire to use this theory to shut the Creator out of 
His own world, it seems to me that species produced by modifi- 
cation of previous species show His hand as unmistakably, nay, 
I would say, show it more clearly than if moulded direct from 
earth, air, and water. 
The subjects were discussed by Mrs. Vireinrta K. HASCALL, 
Pror. D. 8. MARTIN, the PRESIDENT, and the author of the. 
paper. 
April 9, 1888. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Pror. J. S. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Seventy-one persons present in the Geological Lecture Room, 
Columbia College. 
A paper by Ligut. Tuomas L. Casey was read by title:— 
ON SOME NEW NORTH AMERICAN RHYNCHOPHORA. 
(Published in the Annals, Vol. IV.) 
Mr. GeorGe F. Kunz exhibited a jadeite tablet from Hon- 
duras. It measures about six and one-half by four and one-half 
inches, and is one-half inch thick. One side is carved with a 
rude representation of a face, with pendents hanging from the 
ears. It is evidently Maya work, highly polished, and one of the 
finest jadeite relics known. The perforations indicate that it 
was worn as a breastplate. 
