360 Profs. King and Eowney on 



XXXVIII. — RemarTcs on ^The Dawn ofLife^ hy Dr. Daxcson; 

 to xvhich is added a Supplementary Note. By Professors 

 W. King, Sc.D. &c., and T. H. Rowney, Ph.D. &c. 



When reading Dr. Carpenter's " final" manifesto* announ- 

 cing that he withdrew from the Eozoic contest — obviously in 

 consequence of his having at last become conscious of the fact 

 that he and ourselves were working from a different base of 

 operations, naively imagining all along that, as in a sporting 

 contest, there must be some " common basis of agreement " 

 between us — we felt it would be unnecessary for us to do 

 any thing more in defence of our position. But as Dr. Dawson 

 has amassed together all his old materials, with some addi- 

 tions, forming them into one imposing stockade, ' The Dawn 

 of Life,' from which he has made an earnest appeal to the vox 

 2>opid{ for support, we consider ourselves under the necessity 

 of again taking up arms against a " state of things that has 

 long ceased to be desirable in the interests of science, since the 

 settlement of the questions raised is in the highest degree im- 

 portant to the history of life." 



Passing over by far the largest portions of ' The Dawn of 

 Life,' as they, and our disproofs of them, have already appeared 

 in different scientific journals, we shall at once enter into the 

 " fire of discussion " by noticing whatever requires our par- 

 ticular attention. 



After carefully going over the work, we find that it will be 

 most conducive to a correct judgment to arrange the siibjects 

 to be noticed under the following heads : — 



1. Restoration of Eozoon. 



2. " Differences between the cell-wall of Eozoon and a 



vein of chrysotile." 



3. " Proper wall shifted by a fault, and more recent chry- 



sotile vein not faulted." 



4. '''■ Arclimosphoerinoe " and other " minute foraminiferal 



forms." 



5. New figures of " proper wall." 



6. " Stromatoporoid successors of Eozoon^ 



7. " Canals filled with dolomite." 



8. " Short answers " to our summarized " objections " 



against Eozoonism. 



9. " Systematic position of Eozoon^'' 



10. Natural Theology of the Eozoic Doctrine. 



* ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' November 1874. 



