Nov. 2, 18S8.] 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



45i 



THE SCALY AMPHIBIA OF THE 

 PLAUEN GLEN NEAR DRESDEN. 



oreseen, taking his stand upon embryological and mor- 

 phological researches, the geologist has to seek out in 

 the strata of the earth, furnishing in this manner new 



'"PHE subjoined figures, for which we are indebted to j and irrefutable evidence of the unity of the organic world, 

 the courtesy of a German contemporary, the IIlus- : and proving that animals are not the outcome of desultory, 



Fig. i.— Pelosaurus Laticeps (from above). 



trirte Zeitung, give a good idea of the structure of a very 

 interesting group of extinct animals. 



The teachings of Darwin served as a challenge to 

 geologists to find out the supposed intermediate forms 

 which link together organisms now living and seemingly 

 quite unconnected. What the zoologist had prophetically 



special creation, but have advanced in gradual stages to 

 higher and higher differentiation. 



When in the beginning of the present century Lamarck 

 maintained that the horse had been evolved from many- 

 toed ungulate animals by a process of gradual transfor- 

 mation, Cuvier replied that he would not accept this 



