104 PROF. J. LOGAN LOBLEY, P.G.S., ETC., ON 



siveness ; and thirdly, tlie preparedness of tlie earth for man — its 

 adjustment to man as he is, not to man as he is destined to be 

 hereafter, because I had in my mind all the time through the 

 reading of the paper a little sentence which shows that there is 

 someth.ing yet eomicg, reserved till the end when He said, " I go- 

 to prepare a place for you." That shows that thei'e is a long pre- 

 paratory process going on now, perhaps through the relationship 

 of our present earth, with its fellow-planets and sun, to otlier 

 heavenly bodies ; but there is this preparatory process going on 

 whereby the habitation once prepared for man as he is will be 

 adapted to man as he is to be, and there will be the same complete 

 adjustment in the second case as in the first. 



Another point which must strike everybody, I should think, a» 

 we have been through this paper, is the utility of fossils, because- 

 if all fossils had been reduced to nothingness, which would have- 

 been the case, no doubt, if all the rocks had been igneous instead 

 of in most cases sedimentary, there "would not have been a single- 

 trace of the animals and vegetation that have existed before the 

 human peiiod. What a serious loss that would have been ! 



The only other thing that strikes me is that after all I suppose 

 we have only got some thirty-five miles down out of the eight 

 thousand whicb would be requisite to carry us through the depths- 

 of the earth, and, therefore, we are only dealing with the crust of 

 this wonderful globe on which we live. It is a good thing, 

 sometimes, to remember that all this is the roof, as it were, that 

 the building is beneath — and a wonderfully good roof it is, a roof 

 that took a long time to prepare ; but beneath are the phenomena 

 touched upon in the earlier part of this paper, and I observe that 

 the Professor said on his last page that all the later sedimentary 

 rocks depend for their existence on the composition of the original 

 rocks. So that there must have been in the composition of the 

 original rocks everything that was required to produce all 

 materials — a clear evidence of design in the formation of the earth. 



After some observations by Mr. Martix Rouse, 



The Chairman. — I should like to ask Professor Logan Lobley 

 about the Dryopithecus refeiTcd to on page 97. A great many 

 genera are mentioned in connection with the jaeriod he there- 

 refei-s to. He says, "According to Gaudry, the first anthropoid 

 ape, the Drijopithecus, appears " — the middle-sized monkey and the 

 long-necked one, whether he considers the Ccenopithecus to be a 



