June 15, 1S83. 



SCIENCE. 



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FRIDAY, JUKE 15, 1883. 



DARWIN. 



He ^yas a bold discoverer of the wise 

 And lucid order of the world, who bade 

 Men love the truth and speak it, and be glad 



When each ideal of superstition dies. 



The bigot cursed him, and, with flaming eyes, 

 Flashed hate upon him as on one gone mad 

 With stark God-enmity, although he had 



No blacker sin than honest hearts devise. 



He was a hero for the right of men 



To seek beyond their bibles, churches, creeds. 



Beyond the rigid will of pope or priest, 



Thought buried deep in nature; holy when 



Kevealed to us by any soul that reads 



The infinite mind in God and man and beast. 



Amid the hard endeavor of old days, 



He strove supremely, and, with patient will, 

 Climbed masterfully onward, upward, till 



He rose above men's bitter blame or praise. 



He probed our life along its secret ways. 



Back through historic centuries, farther still. 

 He traced the simple, clear designs which fill 



Creation as they fill a robin's lays. 



Within the vast complexity of forms. 

 Births of one primal ancestry he saw. 

 Like stars and planets from one chaos hurled. 



And showed, through aeons of fire and flood and 

 The march of evolution and of law, [storms. 



The beauty and the wonder of the world. 



Ah ! we could only listen when he told. 

 How, through the antique ages to the new. 

 Life from a barbarous toil and struggle grew. 



Like a staunch creeper from an arid mould ; 



How savage instinct in the strong and bold 



Crushed out the weak, and how the mightier few 

 Roamed in their wild blood-thirstiness, and slew 



The fierce-faiiged slayers that had been kings of old. 



He pictured to our eyes the carnal strife. 

 The eternal woe and pathos of the earth, 

 And awful brooding death which makes us mute: 



And thus he spoke the story of our life. 

 The growth of mind from some tenebrious birth, 

 'The soul of man developed from the brute. 



No. 19. — 1883. 



Since he has lived, our human thought has gained 

 Fresh wings and ampler airs. His courage broke 

 The serfdom of tradition, and awoke 



New visions of a freedom unrestrained. 



He was our modern prophet. Truth remained 

 As fruit of all the burning words he spoke; 

 And, seeing with his strong eyes, our dreams evoke 



A future which shall be at last attained. 



He shaped our way, and we shall follow. Time 

 And hope are with him and with us to-day; 

 And out of sky and sunlight and the dark 



Shall come a knowledge radiant and sublime, 

 And song, whose music will not pass away. 

 Triumphant as the singing of the lark. 



Gbobge Edgak Montgomeey. 



RECENT EXPLORATIONS IN THE RE- 

 GION OF THE GULF STREAM OFF 

 THE EASTERN COAST OF THE UNITED 

 STATES BY THE U. S. FISH-COMMIS- 

 SION.^ 



3. Influence of the Gulf Stream. 



The bottom along the upper part of this 

 slope and the outermost portion of the adjacent 

 plateau, in 65 to 150 fathoms, and sometimes 

 to 200 fathoms or more, is bathed bj^ the 

 waters of the Gulf Stream. Consequently the 

 temperature of the bottom water along this 

 belt is decidedly higher than it is along the 

 shallower part of the plateau, nearer the shore, 

 in 30 to 60 fathoms. The Gulf Stream itself 

 is usnallj' limited in depth to about 150 

 fathoms, and often even less, in this region ; 

 below this the temperature steadily decreases 

 to the bottom of the ocean-basin, becoming 

 about 38°-37° in 1,000 to 1,500 fathoms, and 

 falling to 37''-35° in 1,500 to 2,500 fathoms. 

 We may, therefore, properly- call the upper 

 part of the slope, in about 65 to 150 fathoms, 

 the warm belt. According to our observations, 

 the bottom temperature of the warmer part of 

 this belt, in 65 to 125 fathoms, is usually be- 

 tween 47° and 53° F. in summer and eai'ly 

 autumn. Between 150 and 200 fathoms the 

 temperatures, though variable, are usually high 

 enough to show more or less influence from 

 the Gulf Stream. On the warm belt we took 

 numerous kinds of animals that were previ- 

 ously kuown only from the Gulf of Mexico 

 or the Straits of Florida. Some belong to 

 tribes that have alwaj-s been considered as 

 tropical or subtropical, such as Dolium, Mar- 

 ginella, and Avicula, among the shells. In 



^ Continued from No. 16. 



