[April, 
272 Analyses of Books. 
The misfortune is that we have to deal with men who obsti- 
nately keep their eyes closed. They are the rightful heirs of the 
sages who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope, and who, 
when he performed his celebrated experiment at the leaning 
tower of Pisa, refused to accept the evidence of their own senses. 
The Kansas City Review. Vol. iii., No. 10, February, 1880. 
The principal paper in this issue, “ Evolution in Creation,” by 
Prof. G. C. Swallow, is one upon which we cannot congratulate 
the author. It is fundamentally vitiated by the assumption that 
Evolution and Creation are antagonistic ideas. Now we hold, 
as do multitudes of other naturalists, that Evolution is simply 
the manner in which Creation was effected. That there are 
Evolutionists who seek to dispense with God is granted. But in 
like manner there have been, and doubtless still are, believers in 
the permanence of species who hold that each form of organic 
life came into existence spontaneously, or else has existed from 
all eternity. 
Results of Observations in Meteorology , Terrestrial Magnetism, 
&=c. Taken at the Melbourne Observatory during the Year 
1876, under the Superintence of R. L. J. Ellery, F.R.S., 
Government Astronomer. Vol. v. Melbourne : J. Ferres. 
This volume is a valuable collection of observations, but con- 
tains little calling for especial remark. The mean temperature 
of the air during fourteen years is 57*0° F. for spring, 65*3 for 
summer, 587 for autumn, and 49*2 for winter, the latter figure 
nearly agreeing with the average for the entire year in England. 
The yearly mean temperature for Melbourne is 57*6. The highest 
temperature recorded in the shade is m*2, and the lowest 27*2. 
The mean hourly velocity of the wind is 10-5 miles, certainly too 
much to be pleasant. Fog is not entirely absent. Thus at 
Wilson’s Promontory we find mention of three successive days 
of “ dense, wet, driving fog,” and this in the middle of October, 
which answers to our April, 
