December 15, 1905. J 



SCIENCE. 



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clearly ' one of the books which no [scientific] 

 gentleman's library should be without.' 



The theory of evolution being now, as Pro- 

 fessor Townsend informs us, ' discredited and 

 abandoned by the best scholarship of the world,' 

 it is high time that the ' American university 

 professors ' who still continue to deceive the 

 people on this important question, shovild be 

 called to account. " Were these professors 

 clergymen, would it be discourteous to char- 

 acterize such an exhibition as a piece of 

 superb ignorance or insolence?" 'We are a 

 little behind the times on these questions in 

 this country as compared with England, 

 Trance and Germany, though ahead in almost 

 everything else ' ; and ' the most thorough 

 scholars, the world's ablest philosophers and 

 scientists, with few exceptions, are not sup- 

 porters, but assailants of evolution,' so that 

 American men of science will do well to heed 

 this clarion call from Boston University. " If 

 these facts as to the attitude of leading scien- 

 tists, and if this revolution of opinion in 

 Germany are known, and certainly they ought 

 to be, then can the silence of our American 

 evolutionists be looked upon as honest or 

 manly ? " 



The trouble with us over here in the wilds 

 of North America is that we have been making 

 fine-spun distinction where there is no real 

 "unlikeness. " What essential or fundamental 

 difference is there between Darwinism and any 

 scheme of evolution that may be or can be 

 proposed ? " Professor Townsend repudiates 

 with scorn the suggestion that he confuses 

 evolution and Darwinism. They are the same 

 thing; and every naturalist who questions the 

 all-sufficiency of selection becomes ipso facto 

 an advocate of special creation. De Vries, 

 among others, has his name called right out in 

 meeting on the strength of that eminent sci- 

 entific authority, the Literary Digest. 



A muddle-headed chap the evolutionist — or 

 the Darwinian — is at best: see how he gets 

 fooled by the Tertiary horse ! " While there 

 is some resemblance between these four-toed 

 animals and the modern horse, as there are 

 some resemblances between a cow and a crow, 

 a man and a mouse, each having a head with 

 •its eyes, nose and ears, and each having feet 



with which to walk, yet these resemblances 

 furnish no more evidence of organic connec- 

 tions and transmutations in the one case than 

 in the other — that is no evidence at all." But 

 then what is to be expected of persons who 

 employ " such terms as ' bathiosm,' ' cosmic 

 ether,' ' cosmic emotion,' ' germplasm,' ' pan- 

 genesis,' ' protoplasm,' ' growth force,' ' vital 

 fluid ' and the like, * * * It should be said, 

 however, that not for five or ten years have 

 these terms, once potent on the lips of scien- 

 tists and philosophers, been employed seriously 

 by any reputable writer on these stibjects." 



After this warning, if any reader of Science 

 is caught saying ' protoplas^m,' it will be his 

 own fault! E. T. Brewster. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



A NEW MIOCENE ARTIODACTYL. 



Among several discoveries made in the Dai- 

 monelix beds (Loup Fork) of Sioux County, 

 Nebraska, the most striking one of the season 

 seems to be that of a new four-horned an- 

 cestral antelope, Syndyoceras cooM, the skull 

 of which is herein figured and briefly de- 

 scribed. The discovery was made by Mr. 



Syndyoceras cooki, Barbovir, 1905. 



Harold G. Cook, a former Lincoln student and 

 a member of the Morrill geological expedition 

 of 1905. 



The specimen, which gives promise of being 

 complete, was found on the west bank of the 

 Niobrara River in the bluffs bordering the 

 extensive ranch of Mr. James Cook, Agate, 



