ssvsksh a®pof&. 
Of f he Colorado Siologie&l 
As&oeiation. 
EDITED BY THE SECRETARY. 
NEW MEMBERS. . 
(28.) J. Jenner Weir, F. Z. S. &c., 
Chirbury, Beckenham, Kent, Eng* 
land. 
(29.) J. B. Ellis, Newfield, New 
Jersey. 
(30.) Prof. A. S Packard, M. D., 
Providence, Rhode Island. 
(31.) Prof. Byron D Halsted, Ag- 
ricultural College, Ames, Iowa. 
THE FOSSILS OF HUERFANO COUNTY. 
(Continued from filth report.) 
It was during this period in the 
world’s history that these creatures 
now found entombed in the rocks of 
which we have ju>>t spoken, were pos- 
sessed of vitality. They lived and 
had Iheir being in that far-off day, 
as similar creatures do at the present 
time* These sharp-pointed teeth now 
isolated and fossilised, bristled then 
in the huge, hungry jaws of giant 
sharks, some of which were of enor- 
mous size. They with hungry greed 
darted here and there in this primi- 
tive sea in search of food, and in con- 
sequence of their great strength pro- 
claimed themselves terrors to their 
less favored contempraries. Truly 
“there were giants in those days” and 
made its appearance to curb the cruel 
inclinations of creatures disposed to 
shed innocent blood* The tendency 
of nature has ever been to give prefer- 
ence to th the coarse and brutal ele- 
ments of organic forms; ever as with 
us to-day has the weakest gone to the 
wall, wnile the violent and offensive, 
have been victorious in the great 
struggle for existence. The upward 
march of all organism from the lowest 
Protozoa on through all the Geologi- 
cal ages until the culmination of life 
in man, has been accomplished by 
violence ai d bloodshed. And there 
never has been a time since living 
forms first appeared on this earth of 
ours when disease and death and pain 
and suffering, war and bloodshed were 
unknown. The race was ever to the 
swift, and the battle to the strong. 
It was now the beautiful Ammonite 
drifted before the ocean breeze re* 
fleeting with its nacreous surface all 
the gorgeous colors of the sunbeam, 
or sunk itself beneath the deep blue 
ocean wave in quest of food or pleas- 
ure suitable to its lowly nature. 
These are but a few, very few, <^f the 
creatures that lived in this far off pe- 
riod of the world’s history. Millions 
of millions of these creatures were of 
microscopic dimensions and their tiny 
skeletons constitute great beds of chalk 
to-day. The microscope has revealed 
the fact th^Lt the great bulk of our 
chalk and limestone formations is al- 
most entirely made up of the shells of 
no anti-vivisection society had so far foraminiftra the most of which are in- 
