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de Saporta, of France, and many others whose names should be 
added. 
Sir Joseph Hooker’s studies of the floral types of ‘Tasmania has 
gone far to establish the trans-latitude doctrine. Oswald Heer, of 
Zuric, in his Fossil Flora of the Arctic Regions, modestly affirms 
that in the northern region all the floral types of the more southern 
latitudes were originally in a great continuous Miocene continent 
within the Arctic Circle, and. that from this centre they migrated 
southward. I ask you to note that the migration is from north to 
south, and not w/ce versa—never from south to north. 
In Geikie Text Book of Geology, p. 874, we read : 
‘*We have now only to notice the singular want of reciprocity 
in the migrations of northern and southern types of vegetation. In 
return for the vast number of European plants which have reached 
_ Australia, not one single Australian plant has ever entered any part 
of the North Temperate Zone, and the same may be said of the 
typical southern vegetation in general.” 
Also, Sir Joseph Hooker affirms, geographically speaking : 
“ There is no Antartic flora, except a few lichens and seaweeds ; all 
have come from the north.” 
If we circle our globe in any latitude from west to east or east 
to west we find, as we pass from land to land, we encounter animals 
specifically unlike. Everywhere we find, along with like climate and 
telluric conditions, different animals. As soon, however, as we reach 
the Arctic zone, and there make our circuit, we everywhere meet 
the same species ; or, on the other hand, if we take circles of lati- 
tude and pass from the Arctic region southward, we find in the 
abundant fossil evidences that we are moving from the seat of earlier 
life—leaving home; that we are following the footprints of pre- 
historic migration of animal or plant life, and if we return from the 
south northward we find the reverse, that we are advancing counter 
to their movements. 
From the above facts there seems but one conclusion, that the 
Arctic Pole is the mother region of all plants and animals, and, if 
so, certainly the region where in the beginning God created every 
beast of the earth and cattle after its kind, and where God placed 
the man whom He had formed. 
As with other branches of science, so anthropology points to 
