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people often are with good advice. Notwithstanding this dis- 
couraging result, I venture, as a parting word, to repeat the sug- 
gestion, and to say to all the more or less acute lay and clerical 
paper-philosophers! who venture into the regions of biological 
controversy : Get a little sound, thorough, practical, elementary 
instruction in biology. 
ON THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA. 
BY AUG. R. GROTE.? 
Te conclusion was first reached by myself in a paper è read 
before the American Association, August, 1875 (since re- 
printed in several journals), that we should find colonies of Arctic 
man upon mountains in the temperate zone of North America, 
had all the conditions for his survival on these elevations been 
fulfilled in his case as they have been in that of certain plants 
and animals. That the Eskimos are the existing representatives 
of the man of the American Glacial epoch, just as the White 
Mountain butterfly ( Oeneis semidea) is the living representative 
of a colony of the genus planted on the retiring of the ice from 
the valley of the White Mountains, seemed to me at that time a 
natural conclusion. In a subsequent paper,t Dr. C. C. Abbott, 
basing his remarks on paleolithic implements discovered by him- 
self in New Jersey, says: “It is fair to presume that the first 
human beings that dwelt along the shores of the Delaware were 
really the same people as the present inhabitants of Arctic Amer- 
ica.” The title of Dr. Abbott’s paper is Traces of an Amer- 
ican Autochthon, and in it he institutes a comparison of the pal- 
eolithic implements of New J ersey with those of Southern France. 
According to a foot-note of Dr. Abbott’s it appears that in 1875 
Dr. Rink® was “ strongly of opinion that the Eskimo are an 
1 Writers of this stamp are fond of talking about the Baconian method. I beg 
them, on to lay to heart these two weighty sayings of the herald of Modern 
ien 
i aSa ex propositionibus constat, propositiones ex verbis, verba notionum 
tesseræ sunt. Itaque si notiones ipsæ (id quod basis rei est) confuse sint et temere a 
rebus > nies nihil in iis que superstruuntur est firmitudinis.” — Novu m Or- 
ganon ii, 
a mrna aBa vanitati nonnulli ex modernis summa levitate ita indulserunt, ut in 
primo capitulo Geneseos et in a libro Job et aliis Sari sacris, piece natu- 
em fundare conati sint ; id. 6 
Read before the Büffalo pober of Natural petent vara 2, 1877. 
* Effect of the Glacial Epoch upon the Distribution of Insects in North America, 
Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. a bean Meeting, B. Natural History, 225. 
3 * Am. Nat. ., June, 
Tales and reada a pet Eskimo, London, 1875. ` 
