New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-07

ing tnet their ancestral home was In Antarctica,
lana so, Sresa by cold and the submergence Of tie
ing tracks wandering. the one along the west coast
81 MmSriss and The other toward L,muria lMada:
ISes they nave prolonged their years beyond those
., .ne'r fellows, which have died out everywhere
Botany is then appealed to for corroborative tes
gnnorss ana not In vain Out Of the thirty-hve
S Ss,nn Nsw:zeaInnd AustrsHs the Mascarsne
90 90, plants ITO which the Cape honeysuckle beongsl
regions and on o species are IN The me
SHRUBS ar, are en and @ kindred
erence for southern residence is Observed. TAX
ing .Nerguelcn Land In the Southern Indian Ocean
said that It's prevalent features are either like those
Tasmania.
WALLACEs THEORY CONTROVERTED.
The great naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace IL
inclined - believe the facts here rected consisen
with the possibility that the ancestors OF these
birds. mammals. fishes and plants originally lived
In the Northern Hemisphere. and that the descend .
ants were driven southwark by the pressure OF
rorpes expresses his dissent very courteousV lie
says, among other THINKS;
shonld have been alone the same forms that have
their long migraiions through the deserts and for
ests OF ASA Malay" and australia to ieaGh Sew mc
ard Madagascar and o: North and South America
10 arrive in Patagonia and even in the Antarctis
Islands. ana That scarcely representative OF hei'
line should be found north OF the equator Nor
docs the explanation that has also been offered OF
the occurrence OF the same genera and species III
those remote regions. that they have beer the re-
suit Of independent dey elopinent. appear to M t.
DO more satisfactory. for tho chances aCansf the
same genus species becoming developed .nde
pendently in .hrec four distinct regions OF the
only in the southern exiremiiies OF the great con-
tncrt2 are enormously great. 1t has hitherto been
laid down as Fundamental; law Ia Scographic3i
distribution that the areas inhabited 5y give
me Same genera. are or nave Beer continuous
with each other"
II Is well known tha, extensive area Of sea
bottom around the present Antarctic continent con
stitutes a sort of shelf situated al much higher
level than the depths Of the Atlantic. Pacific and
Indian oceans. although some Of II is nearly two
that If this area could he hoisicd M out OF the
sea. or. what amounts 10 the same thing. the wa
Ter over i could be lowered sufficiently, connee-
lions would be made with America Africa. Aus
tralia and Ncw-ZralanG. He recalls the opinion
OF certain authorities that great subsld~nces OF
land result from glacial period. ana expresses
Hemisphere covered with ice cap .severa!
thousand feet thick and reaching down 10 rhe lati'
tude OF the OHIO River in places. there must have
been abnormal. absence of water and genial
In support OF this notion he urges the generally
accepted theory that at still Garlic stage OF
geologic history m almost tropical climate eX-
tended 10 wthlN few degrees Of the North Pole
He also citcs the great peat boys. evidences or a
once luxurious vegetation ana mld climate
which exis' on the now nhospitable Crozet Ner-
and Southern hemispheres. without doubt there
have been vas, climatic changes. even II Croll
captivating Astronomical hyrothesis does not ade
enough OF n case. therefore To take hold OF the
scientific Imagination even II !, be not accepteI
as proven.