go PENIKESE. 



adult fish produced 9,000,000 more eggs. As a result 

 of this increase, the world would soon be buried a 

 thousand feet deep in cod fish. (Applause). But, 

 as it is, they are being continually thinned out; only 

 about one-half of the eggs laid are impregnated, 

 scarcely one-half of these survive impregnation one- 

 half of this half are killed when very young by frogs 

 and other fishes, and, during their whole growth, they 

 are being continually lessened. Even when fishes 

 (fishes of other species, I mean,) go down the rivers 

 to the ocean," (the professor, doubtless, refers to sal- 

 mon, shad, and other river fish, ) there stands a great 

 barrier of enemies through which all must pass; and 

 think what few survive! No wonder that those are 

 the sharpest, keenest, strongest, and best fitted to al- 

 lude their enemies. The remark made concerning 

 shells and their reduction in species, will also apply 

 to fishes and other branches of the animal kingdom^ 

 and, contrary to what is stated by the non-evolution- 

 ists that the greater the amount of material we get the 

 better we are able to separate species, I say that by 

 this we are the better able to condense species. 



"De Candole accepted, at first, the complete yet 

 complex classification of the oaks, as given by emi- 

 nent botanists; yet even he admits that, given the 

 same climate, temperatures, soil, and other circum- 

 stances which affect their growth, many species con- 

 verge and finally meet. 



"The divtrgence of species is going on all over the 

 world, and what we want to do is to unite them as 

 much as possible, and find out the truth in regard to 

 them. If anybody can prove the theory of Mr. Dar- 

 win false by true facts, we are all ready to believe 

 him." 



The professor then spoke of the races and ages of 

 man in the world, since its beginning, and instanced 

 them as proof of the theory which he supported, 

 namely, the "survival of the fittest." He next made 

 a statement, which is the strong point of the whole 

 theory, that: "Even if we look at it in a religious 



