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Mendel, discovered a principle bearing upon this point, 

 which wholly confutes Darwin's notion. The force of 

 heredity is shown by innumerable experiments and obser- 

 vations to be persistent, so that accidental variations have 

 no chance to compete with the ordinary form of a species. 

 Since Darwin's day, too, Jean Henri Fabre, the great 

 French entomologist, predisposed to Darwinism, has 

 shown, however, that insects are not able to plan for 

 themselves or acquire new ways by experience, but obey a 

 blind impulse, having no power to adapt themselves to 

 unlooked for situations. 



Then, there is a question which has never been an- 

 swered by the evolutionists : If it is a law of all life to 

 be ever moving towards something higher, how is it that 

 further development has ceased at man? The latest 

 estimate made by people calling themselves scientific, of 

 the period of his existence upon the earth is 20,000,000 of 

 years — only a wild guess. Surely, by this time, assum- 

 ing the correctness of the guess, there should be some 

 tokens of the acquisition of wings or some other sign of 

 his rising a step higher in the scale. 



Except Hseckel and Wallace, the latter holding the 

 same theory, although somewhat modified, the men of 

 science of this day has given up the notion that species 

 have formed themselves by any inner potentiality or 

 plans of their own, however the selection, which is a fact, 

 is to be accounted for. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN PALAEONT- 

 OLOGY. 



"The Manus in a Specimen of Trachodon, from the 

 Edmonton Formation of Alberta." 



"A New Genius and Species of Ceratopsia, from the 

 Belly River Formation of Alberta." 



' ' On the Fore-Limb of a Carnivorous Dinosaur, from 

 the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a New Genus 

 of Ceratopsia, from the Same Horizon, with Remarks on 



