398 | The Critics of Evolution. [June, 
till they were seven years old, when both laid eggs and have done 
so now for three years. They lay two eggs each upon the naked 
ground without the least appearance of a nest, and far away from. 
the water. Last spring I procured a young male (as I suppose), 
but no two of the three ever associate together, as far as observed. 
One of the females sat about ten days upon her eggs last spring 
and then gave it up. The crows dined on the eggs of the others. 
I hope in the future to write more fully my observations on the 
mountain sheep and the Hawaiian geese, both of which are in- 
teresting subjects of study and are not very thoroughly under- 
stood. Very truly yours, J. D. Caron. 
70: 
THE CRITICS OF EVOLUTION. 
BY J. S. LIPPINCOTT. 
[ Continued] 
Opposition of Dawson.—Prof. Dawson is also an inconsistent 
writer. In 1869 he published his “ Modern Ideas of Derivation,” 
an address to the students of McGill College, Montreal, in which 
he stated his belief, that Prof. Cope’s hypothesis, as advanced in 
his “ Origin of Genera,” is the “most promising of all that have 
been announced,” and as “holding forth the most promising line 
of investigation by which we may hope ultimately to arrive at 
more true expression of the law of creation with reference to 
organized beings.” This was an admission that he was in accord 
with the evolutionists. 
Prof. Dawson is among those who have attempted to harmo- 
nize Scripture and science. I am unable to see that they can at 
present be harmonized. and am confirmed in the belief in the 
difficulty, by the opinion of the ablest geologists with whom I 
have the good fortune to be acquainted. Moreover, Prof. Le- 
Conte, of the University of California, confirms this impression. 
He also has written and lectured largely upon this subject, for 
the benefit of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and is a 
firm believer in the truths of revealed religion. LeConte can- 
didly admits that all attempts to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony 
with the results of science must be distasteful to the philosophical 
Christian. They must ever be but artificial and ingenious human 
devices. Far better to regard the books of Revelation and of 
