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with the new life manifested in plant 
and animal before that great ice. inva- 
sion took place from the north, push- 
ing its cold, relentless, life-crushing 
front south to Maryland. 
And this boulder upon which I am 
sitting as I make these notes, this 
also has been forced to travel south- 
ward from the White Hills or possi- 
bly from beyond the St. Lawrence. 
Then it seemed to me that the birds 
must have a memory of that time so 
far beyond man’s recollection, not as 
a scene in their actual life,but an zz- 
herited image of that destructive ice 
river. The climate has changed fre- 
quently since Mesozoic time, the 
changing of ocean currents, changes 
of topography, variations of atmos- 
pheric currents —a// combined to 
transport tropical vegetation once 
more within the Polar Circle, as is evi- 
dent from the fossils found there. 
Again these changes and the ice field ° 
pushed itself south only to be driven 
back again These slow changes 
forced the birds to rear their young 
in new localities in successive genera- 
tions, following the retreating tropics 
for centuries, and then pursuing the 
frosts to the distant north. 
Thus it seems that the instinct 
which prompts migration in most 
cases is an inherited one; that with 
the return of the cold season a mem- 
ory of that. frigid sea which drove 
their progenitors south, impels them 
likewise to seek a warmer clime. The 
periods between the extremes of heat 
and cold gradually shortened and the 
climate became quite constant, so 
that the seasons of the year were the 
only perceptible changes. Formerly 
many generations of birds came and 
passed away during one swing of the 
temperature pendulum, now a bird re- 
turns several seasons to the same nest. 
In all animal life there are organs 
that remain in a useless, a rudiment- 
ary state to testify to their import- 
ance long ago; may they not be 
lingering memories and shadowy in- 
stincts of former conditions, which, 
though gradually and surely fading are 
transmitted to offspring? Some 
birds do not migrate because there 
is no urgent necessity for so doing, 
and this memory instinct with them 
has completely vanished. Here is a 
field for investigation as fruittul to 
some patient student as was the bone 
to Agassiz or the plant to Darwin. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 5 
15 
Why do our domestic geese rise and 
circle in the air when they hear the 
cry of their kindred, unfettered by 
domestication, as they pass each 
spring to the northern lakes and 
watercourses? It must be a prompt- 
ing to visit the same retreats, a ten- 
der, lingering image of those broad 
sheets of water, the rich feeding 
grounds and coveted nesting places 
of the North and the wild, free life, 
—a flashing image of vanishing 
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scenes, followed by an_ irresistible 
impulse to join that clanging triangu- 
lar company. 
That many birds, such as the crow, 
robin and jay do not migrate, while 
others of the same species do, shows 
that migration of itself is not a neces- 
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and leave better places for rearing 
their young than they find in the 
north, while others remain in the 
same locality during life. Thus it 
seems that the migratory instinct, so 
called, is an inherited memory and 
that, as the cause for migration has 
long since ceased, sois the inclination 
to migrate also fading. If creatures 
are influenced by environment, if in- 
clinations can be transmitted to the 
young, then the causes for migration 
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