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" glance " would be required for the pro- 

 duction of a piebald horse ! For as the Rev. 

 F. 0. Morris, one of the first authorities of 

 that age on the subject of birds, justly 

 commented on the President's strange hal- 

 lucination, in somewhat severe terms, 

 " As a matter of fact, the lion does no t live 

 in the sandy desert, but in the dense 

 jungle, amidst an infinity of colours of the 

 brightest hues ; and when he comes out 

 into the open desert of sand, if it be sand, 

 it is at night, when the colour of neither 

 can have any effect whatever one way or 

 another." 



A notable instance of the progress of 

 Atheism, as well as of the difficulties 

 which the Evolution theory in place of 

 solving is sure to create, occurred at the 

 same meeting of the British Association, 

 when Professor Seeley had finished read- 

 ing his paper on the development of 

 the plesiosaurus from the simosaurus- 

 pusillus, Dr. Wright forcibly remarked that 

 "the professor ought to have gone fur- 

 ther, and showed the wondrous adapta- 



