620 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
THE CHEMICAL History OF THE SIX Days or CREATION.* — In mak- 
ing another attempt to reconcile Geology and Genesis, the author has ex- 
hibited much more knowledge, fairness, and a truly scientific spirit than 
ments of the Scriptures, clothed as they often are, in the peculiarly rhe- 
torical style of the languages of the East, and most difficult to translate, 
will command the assent of fair minded scientists and theologians. The 
bigoted of both classes of minds will perhaps disagree with hi 
He explains by the recent discoveries regarding the correlation of forces, 
e 
ous elements. He contends that the “nebular hypothesis and the devel- 
opment hypothesis may both be true, and God still remain the Creator of 
the Universe." A scriptural day of the Hebrew writer with our author, 
**is simply an evening and a morning— a period of darkness and a period 
of light, and the duration of such a day is not at all limited by anything 
contained in the text." He shows that the introduction of plants and 
the lower animals, and of fixed time, and the introduction of the higher 
pba, and man himself, are mentioned in the same order in Genesis 
n geological history, and that there is no fundamental disagreement 
veni nd the Hebrew cosmogony and the facts of modern science. With 
this general comparison the author is content to stop. 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
ZOOLOGY. 
THE CAUDAL didis OF INsECTS SENSE OnGaNs, i. e. ABDOMINAL AN- 
NNZ.— Dr. Anton Dohrn has published a note in the “ Journal of the 
Entomological Goiats of ia (1869), to the effect that the abdominal 
appendages of SE female of the Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa) are true sen- 
sory organs (tastorga e 
n the “ emt oco " of the Boston Society of Natural History, May, 
1866, the writer states that ** while, as we have shown above, the genital 
In the same ‘ Proceedings” for Feb. 26, 1868, he dia VW rites: “ Re- 
garding the insect as consisting of two fore and hind halves, the two 
ends being, with this view, repetitions of each other, these anal stylets 
*By John Phin. New York, American News Co. 1870. 12mo, pp. 95. 
