JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 59 
‘Evolution is seen to be neither more nor less than the story of 
creation as told by those who know it best.” Science is likely to 
fare ill at the hands of the church if it ever controls the Dominion 
Public Schools and Universities. The organs of its many denomin- 
ations are already endeavoring to get in the thin edge of the wedge. 
Few, if any, are free from the contemptible practice emphatically 
denounced by the press as ‘“ Heresy-hunting,” and while science 
proceeds on its way, brushing aside from its path ancient superstition 
and modern theological error, need we feel surprised that the clergy 
should endeavor to arrest its progress. Can they see without dis- 
favor congregations falling away, and, what that means, diminished 
incomes ? 
The following extract is taken from “‘The Cambrian Fauna of 
America” by the Director-General of the United States Geological 
Survey: ‘‘The resemblance between the whole structure (of the 
“‘ sponges) and that of the Palzeozoic Corals seems also to show that 
“in the lower Silurian seas organic forms existed combining the 
‘‘ characters of the Profozoa and Ce/lenterata.” This confirms 
Billings’ view. 
TRILOBITES. 
Extract from ‘‘Cambrian Faunas of North America,” page 166: 
“ Although JZesonaces is found at the same horizon as Odenedlus, I 
“regard it as showing the transition of Paradoxides to Olenellus. 
‘“‘ Mr. Ford considers the relationship between O/ened/us and Para- 
‘« doxides one of genetic character, and that O/ene//us is a later and 
“ higher form than Paradoxides. We assent to this statement.”— 
C. D. Watcort. 
Microdiscus punctatus (Salter) (eyes and facial suture entirely 
absent) Professor Whiteaves states was first detected by the late E. 
Billings in the primordial slates of St. Johns, N. B. 
SPONGIA, 
“The genus Ltmophyllan (Cambrian sponge) is a very interest- 
‘“‘ing form, for in it we observe the septa, vesicular structure and 
‘* noriferous system that later, in Palzeozoic time, appear in the va- 
“rious divisions of the Zoantherta branch of the <Actinozoa, 
“ Zaphrentis, Cystephyllum, Favosites, etc.” —C. D. Watcort. 
