The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-01-02

70 stop by the way to throw stonss at that tree.
put In plain unpoeti, Language, I have been in
boston-in the Boston 1useum-hsve sean the
skeleton said 70 have been buried in the swamp
near Newburg, N. Y, and still later have seen
the Zig organ. There can b no objection to call.
ing an elephant by the name of mammoth or mas.
todon if 1t pleases the people of Boston or any
fully convinced that the sun rises and sets on
Boston common. But it will not do t. say that
the mastodonsor mammoth 10 now extinct, - an
| animal. The class to which naturalists may have
assigned the mastodoa may have long ago b.
come extinct ~ class but tho animal still Der.
petuates itself IN another and kindred class.
That skeleton in the Boston Museum belonged
in its day and generation, 10 the family Of Gle.
Phs.ts, having a origin common to the prsssat
elephant - much - . the negro 10 the ssus A.
imal ~ the white man.
There never was IN animal, having distinct
origin from all other animals, and known BY the
name OF mastodon, in this or auy other country.
which 10 now extinct Be assured of this. for
write advisedly when make this statement, and
am fully prepared and sbundantly able new and
hereafter TO make good my statement
This letter, in reply 10 yours to me. il written
for your grrtifoatisn, add, nayhap, Tor tho On.
i,gAssnnent Of ~ massss Of Tie psspls aware. at
the same time, that the authssitiss "a this sIb.
ject, are conflicting. The pseudo scientific, who
have been hunbugged once, seem rather to like it
the second time. At any rate they are slow to
confess errors, and repent thereof The gay but
teriy, with oil its rainbow tints Of beauty,
springs from the chrysalides of catsrpillsrs
lhis butterfly 10 in itsIthird stage Of existence
It never was extinct. Il psrpstuates itself in
chcis-The egg the caterpillar and finally the
butterfly. 1t will not do for Boston or Ottawa
naturalist to tell me, when the butterfly dies,
that this insect has become extinct, simply b.
cause this class Of tho same insect, having dit.
ferent structure from the caterpillar, has ceased
to exist.
l am not railing against science or the real
scientific but am laboring TO set the face of the
psopie-the dear peops-liks q flint against the
Boston quacks and Ottawa quacks and to fix
the attention Of the inquirer after scientific truth
toward Earlvills for the dawning Of that morn.
Ing in the light of whose midday the heavens
and tbs earth, and all that 10 in them, shsll b
made plain and fully cemprehsldsd and apprs-
cisted The earnest scientific scholar stands
nearest the morning and his duty shall be to her
aid the pleased coming of this glorious day, Geo
logical and geological names are mostly derived
by rs from the Greek but knowing the diff
Guilty with the Greek, is printed here in our
smaller towns, in the original the use Of Greek
words or phrases in this letter, has been purpose.
ly avoided For further information in regard
70 my views, you are referred to and unprstend-
ing little book, published by me some fifteen
years ago on the subject Of zoology, which had
quite circulation at the tine, and which you
may already have read. l am, dear Col,
Very truly, J. W. BROWNE.