10 The Haiukeye O. and O. 



THE SCIENTISTS. 



The Fulton County (111.) Scientific Association held their 

 monthly meeting on the evening of November 29th, at the 

 Normal College Chapel, Lewiston. An appreciative audience 

 of perhaps a hundred and fifty guests greeted them. 



H. L. .Roberts for Bureau of Zoology reported that he had a 

 frog that had reversed all former precedent by swallowing a 

 snake, a small puff adder. This phenomena was accounted for 

 by a member who said that Prof. Roberts had neglected his 

 frog, let it starve nearly to death, and that it had to swallow the 

 snake or starve; a survival of the fittest. 



Rev. George, from Bureau of History, reported that the Nile 

 river for the first time since the days of Joseph had failed to 

 overflow its banks, and it was believed that the Abyssinians from 

 near its source had, as a war measure, diverted its chief tributary 

 into the sea. The President reported that some engineer had 

 made the discovery that the Nile's chief tributary was separated 

 from the Indian Ocean by only a narrow strip of land, through 

 which a canal could easily be dug. 



Dr. Strode exhibited some rare eggs. Those pi the Limkin, or 

 Crying Bird, from St. John's river, Florida, attracting much at- 

 tention from their peculiar color and markings. 



Prof. T. R. "Wilcoxson read the first paper on "Eucrgy" and 

 at its close illustrated his subject witli some very pretty and in- 

 teresting electrical and other experiments. 



J. R. Rowlands paper on "An Answer to the Labor Question" 

 was frequently applauded and at its close he was treated to a 

 general handshaking. 



H. L. Roberts' paper, '-Evolution'* was the most truly scien- 

 tifical paper of the, evening and Mr. R. was loudly applauded at 

 its close. 



The Fulton Democrat had this to say of this meeting: 



''The entertainment — the various papers — deserve greater 

 praise than we care to offer our own people. The truth would 

 sound like exaggeration. But our Lewiston people were afford- 

 ed a fir.e treat, and the question of audiences for our scientists is 

 solved, so far as this city is concerned." 



W. S. Strode. Sec'y. 



