4 - Prof. Parsons on the Origin of Species. 
“third is, that they will be created at once and out of nothing, 
‘by the absolute will of a creator. This answer does not satisfy 
me much better. The fourth is, that they will be so created by 
cabselute fiat, out of = nee sens of earth and water, with 
‘the necessary chemical elements in due proportion, which had 
‘been summoned to meet together in a proper place by the will 
of the Creator for that purpose. But this answer does not re- 
commend itself to my reason much more than the others. The 
fifth is, he will be created by some influence of variation acting 
upon the ovum (before or at conception or during its uterine 
ace) of some animal nearest akin—a wolf, a fox, a hyena, 
or a jackal; and the brood will come forth puppies and grow 
up dogs to produce dogs. Now the question is not whether 
already thinning out, we have, in the old red-sandstone formation, 
the “buckler head,”—or, to use the Greek name given by Agas- 
siz, the bo Aap And we have also the fossil flying fish, or 
using again the Greek name, Pterichthys. The first of these was 
long regarded as a trilobite of the genus Asaphus, until Agassiz 
