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tropical regions, are not Ardfic, but belong to the Northern 
Temperate Zones.” But perhaps this may only prove that 
the southern region has been more equatorial than at present 
since the Glacial Period (as the northern has been). 
Is there any help to this idea in the faCt that high regions 
are rarer far in the Southern Hemisphere ? That the 
Northern Temperate Zone is represented there at all is 
proof positive of a “ northern ” visitation, whose Arctic 
remains would naturally be the first to disappear before a 
warmer climate. It may be yet another hint as to the pro- 
gress of the Poles. Altogether one would say, from the faCt 
of the southern life-kingdom being less vigorous than the 
northern, that it was the more recent region in so far as 
organic life is concerned. Did it give another extra journey 
in the north, with a less disastrous effect, the southern seas 
would allow ample play. 
It would be easy to preach on Darwinian texts still fur- 
ther, but I think I have shown sufficiently that if Darwin 
supposed the earth’s axis to have remained pretty much as 
it is now, his explanation is not at all so satisfactory as the 
supposition that the polar axle has oscillated very much 
more widely than at present, if not absolutely revolved in 
the plain of the Earth’s orbit, and probably more than once, 
— moreover that, as a corollary, the Earth has always owned 
an arCtic region or arCtic regions. 
[Whilst admitting that Mr. Cliff’s hypothesis of a varying 
position of the poles might account readily for certain faCts 
in the distribution of organic life, we fear that the physicists 
will deny its possibility. — Editor. | 
VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from page 164.) 
t ^HE opinion is pretty generally entertained in England 
l that all who have, at least, obtained a good average 
education are versed in the science of Education, and 
are competent judges of educational systems : then, by a 
