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WAYSIDE NOTES. 
The remaining chapters contain a summary of the evidence 
with which the detailed study of nature supplies us, in 
proof that the result which we have thus theoretically arrived 
at is that which actually exists. Allowing for the difficulties 
of inductive verification, which are many, the evidence 
adduced shows that not only is the antagonism between 
individuation and Genesis true (as it obviously is) in the 
gross, and when comparison is made between organisms so 
unlike as Infusoria and Man, but it is also in most cases true 
in detail, between organisms closely allied, and from every 
conceivable point of view. For this evidence, however, 
reference must be made to the original, in Chapters Y. to 
VIII. For the strength of such an induction depends upon 
the collective instances, and cannot be still further sum¬ 
marised without losing all its force. 
fSHajrsih Botes. 
At the Meeting of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies 
at Malvern someone clearly blundered, and the blunder went a long 
way towards spoiling what might have been one of the most successful, 
as it was one of the most enjoyable, of these annual meetings. Every¬ 
one sympathised with the President, the Rev. G. E. Mackie, in the 
discouraging part he had to play, and admired the brave way in which 
he bore his load of anxiety. He even plucked up courage enough in 
his address to venture upon a few jokes, one of which is too good to 
let pass, as probably it will not be embalmed in the “Presidential 
Address.” It was the answer of a boy, presumably at the College, to the 
question : “ What do you know about Titus? ” “ Titus was a man in 
the Bible,” penned this ingenious youth. “ He wrote a book. His 
other name was Oates ! ” 
It was a happy thought to give up a Conversazione, which was 
unprepared for and bound to fail, in favour of an open-air drive round 
the northern hills. The evening was delightful, and the ride was a 
most enjoyable departure from an impossible programme. 
Not the least interesting feature of the drive was a well at North 
Malvern, which is being sunk by a poor fellow on a small piece of land 
he has bought for the purpose of erecting a cottage. Within a very 
short distance his neighbours have water within twenty feet or there¬ 
abouts of the surface. This well has been sunk through sixty-seven 
feet of strata, a description of which will be found upon another page, 
while the boring has proceeded twenty-two feet further, but no water 
has been found. The breccia is a really remarkable rock, and requires 
considerable study. The whole section is deeply interesting to the 
students of local geology, but it means ruin to the unfortunate cottager. 
The Meeting at Northampton next year will be looked forward 
to with no little pleasure by the old stagers of the Union, who 
remember with much relish the capital meeting there in 1880. That 
meeting will take a great deal of beating, but the local Secretary says 
they mean to try. 
