THE KANSAS WEATHER SERVICE. 
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encompass its propagation and development. The cranio-pelvic difficulty may 
perhaps settle the Malthusian question as far as the higher races of men are con- 
cerned, by their extinction. 
If the facts brought forward by Dr. Clevenger cannot be controverted, they 
seem to prove that man must have originated by gradual development from a 
four-footed being. Had he been created an erect, bipedal animal, as we find 
him, his structure would have been not in partial, but in perfect, adaptation to 
the conditions of that attitude. That some of the peculiarities of his structure 
are better in harmony with a horizontal than a vertical position of the spinal 
colum, is perhaps the strongest argument against the theory of direct creation 
and the radical toto ccelo distinction between man and beast that has yet been 
advanced. We cannot at the moment lay our hands upon any thorough and 
trustworthy account of the valves in the veins of the sloth : as that animal spends 
its life hanging, back downwards, the structure of the veins would be interesting 
in this connection. — London Journal of Science. 
METEOROLOGY. 
REPORT FROM OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT CENTRAL STATION, 
WASHBURN COLLEGE, TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
BY PROF. J. T. LOVEV^^ELL, DIRECTOR. 
Owing to mistakes in copying the reports of temperature and pressure as 
given last month were erroenous and a corrected statement of these items is here- 
with given. 
Tri-Daily Observations. 
7 a. m 
2 p. m 
9 P- m 
Mean 
Pressure as Observed,! 
7 a. m 
2 p. m 
9 P- m 
Mean ... . . 
Jan, 20th 
to 30th. 
21.0 
39-3 
29-5 
27.7 
29.152 
29.228 
29-145 
29.175 
Feb. 1st 
to loth. 
20.8 
34-9 
25-9 
26.8 
29.054 
28.985 
28.974 
29.013 
Feb. loth 
to 20th. 
15-4 
29.1 
22 I 
22.17 
28.984 
29.978 
29 008 
28.991 
Mean. 
18.1" 
33-1 
24.9 
25-4 
29,063 
29.064 
29,042 
29.059 
■-:' Temperature Corrections of Feb. Report, f Barometric Corrections of Feb. Report. 
March has proved a cool month up to the date of this report and the signs 
of vegetation suited to spring are yet scanty. 
Unusually high wind prevailed on the loth and nth, reaching a velocity 
