Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-23
the greater variety Of plants lis re rep |

| the greater F6Fl6Ly Oh pAahtn .SPS
sented in a person the greater WAL :
mental capacity be. The variety O
plants a person may eat In his own
| lifetime will have but a small per
centage of effect on himself. But II
comes by inheritance. The number
of ancestors person has had IN the
last twenty. five or thirty generations,
and the variety of food those genera
tions have eaten, determines his men,
tai capacity.
The author sent with his manu-
seriDts several well executed and very
neat looking drawings, in explana-
ton OF his ideas of the subject treated. |.
Professor Morse thought it might as
well be claimed that the wearing OF a
/ certain kind of clothing would en-
hance the races as well.
| Professor Richard Owen and Mr..
Ferguson spoke of the baDeful in.
3uence of the intermarriage of blood
relations, and then Professor N. @.
| Hilgard submitted some remarks on
the organic identity of the albumen
/ and endapleuna OF seeds. When he
had concluded, the next paper in
/ course was by Professor P. X. Hoy on
the embryology OF ambystona lurlda
of sager, followed by Professor SWal-
lows remarks on the snow line and
temperature of Montana, who
said: Gas our time is nearly
exhausted, l will simply state that
the snow line in the main range
of the Rocky mountains appears 10
rise from point north OF the racine
railroad to the central portion OF Mon
tana and then falls to the north. But
this snow line appears to fall to the
east and to the west Of the main
range as shown in the belt, and bears
upon mountains on the east ana the
Bitter Root and other mountains on
the west. But little snow falls IN the
central valleys of Montana Territory.
In the Deer Lodge districA not more
than two or three inches Tell at any
time during the winters of 1889 and
| I869-7O. No reasons are yet given that
seem to be sufficient to account for the
high temperature OF this portion Of
the Rocky mountains. The warm,
winds from the coast, the high, warm
plains around these mountains, the
numerous hot springs Of this region,
eithermsingly or combined, do not
appear Sufficient to produce the effects
observed.
Then followed papers by Prof. An
dreWs, entitled, Some observations
on the strategraphy and geology OF
Ohio"
Bv Prof. McCarsny: Notice of ter
tiary insects found by F. G. A. Rich
ardson, on Green river, Wyoming
Territory.
Section A.-Dr. James G.. Rogers
read paper on steam boilers, water
and incrustation. Papers were also
read by Il. Sterry Hunt, on the oil
wells of Terre Haute; by Prof. Ting
lev, an account of a dust storm, which
| occurred 10 Clinton county, Indiana.
A number of other papers weR also
read in this section, on variOus sub
jects.
The last meeting Of the General Ses.
| sion was held tonight. A committee
of arrangements for the next annual
convention, consisting OfProf. J. LaWe
renee Smith, of Louisville, D. ID. Whit
ney, of California, and o. G. Marsh, OF
Yale College, who were appointed the
| COMMITTEES on resolutions, reported
resolutions OF thanks to the citizens OF
Evansville, the Governor and State
officers, city authorities, the railroad
companies, the citizens of Terre
Haute, Brazil, Knightsville and New
Albany, the newspapers, ETC., after
which the Convention adjourned.
A social reception will be given to
the members of the Convention to-
night by the proprietors Of the Daily
Journal Company, at the residence Of
| l.. W. Hasselman-
About two hundred and fifty names
were registered this evening for the
excursion to Mammoth Cave to-mOr.
/ low.