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important anatomical differences between the two series of 
glands in this case, those that secrete honey and those that 
secrete water. Here we see remarkable and unusual arrange- 
ments all co-operating to one result. Can any reasonable man 
deny that the purpose, the design, of the Pitcher is to kill 
flies ? Nay, more, is he not irresistibly led on to a further 
question, namely, what is the object of this singular immola- 
tion ? The solution now in vogue to this latter question is 
that the plant requires more nitrogenous food than it can 
get from the swampy soil in which it lives. In pursuing 
researches such as these Science is really seeking for Final 
Causes however disguised under the latest fashionable name 
of function, adaptation, correlation, &c., and yet we are told 
that the reign of Final Causes is over ! Perhaps the one-sided 
cultivators of Natural Science will one day awake to the 
great truth that Efficient Causes do not exclude Final Causes, 
and that Purpose and Design exist unchanged and unchange- 
able however much they may be ignored by Materialists. 
NOTE. 
The following extrac's from Professor H. N. Moseley’s address on Pelagic 
Life, delivered at the Southampton meeting of the Eritish Association on 
28th August, 1882, are interesting 
Afrer defining pelagic life as those animals and plants which inhabit the 
surface waters of seas and oceans, the lecturer proceeds : “ The existence of 
pelagic animals at all is directly dependent on that of pelagic plants. No 
animal life can exist without vegetable food as a basis, and the first living 
substance which came into existence must have been capable of constructing 
protein for itself from inorganic sources, and been physiologically a plant. 
Now in many regions the sea-surface teems with vegetable life. In the 
Polar waters diatoms swarm, sometimes occurring so abundantly that they 
render the water thick like soup ”... 
In temperate and warmer seas, the Professor declares, diatoms are scarcer, 
though present, and their place is taken by other simple minute Aigce, namely 
Oscillatoriacece. In the Arafura Sea the Challenger expedition passed for 
days through discoloured water which smelt like a weedy pond. In the 
Atlantic also they had for days found the sea filled with Trichodesmium. 
Small marine animals, on which the larger exist, feed on these minute Aigce , 
and also on organic debris from the shore, and on floating sea-weeds (in the 
more ordinary sense of the word). Prof. Moseley pronounces strongly for 
the vegetable nature of the disputed cells in Radiolarians, and even hints 
that Coccospheres and Rhabdospheres may turn out to be vegetables. 
The Chairman (Rev. R. Thornton, D.D.). — I am sure I may tender 
to Mr. James the thanks of the meeting for his very interesting papej.% 
