New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-12
THE sLoWEEss OF EVOLUTION.
IT HAS NOT YET TAKEN THE FIGHT OUT
OF THE DEVELOPING SPECIES OF
THE EARTHs CRUST.

In the old days-the young days OF the world
when the earth was inhabited by creatures with
names which were too long to be mentioned IN the
papers there was constant warfare among them
There were nice questions Of Justice Of political
rights CT Of alliances Of race or interest Every
creatures tooth and claw were against his nelghbor
and the talk was only Of the survival Of the ttest,
with an occasional truce when natural selection
became the fashionable topic at the o'clock muds
Even to-day men who have had their share of both
say that the only real things in the world love
and war. That IS an eternal principle no doubt.
The love OF those days was natural selection. and
the war was the survival Of the fttest. Those
eternal principles, too In the infnitesimal space
Of time which is now passing the Beers pretty
1T; but that is neither here nor there
The point is that there was fight In every bone Of
the creatures OF that carboniferous. odorifer-,
Gus, other kind OF ferrous. day. Not
OF them proved be the httest in the end. Filter
creatures ard went O surviving and natural
~ selecting, It'll tho animal kingdom reached It's
highest development thus far conceivable. the
curators of museums. And still they fight and
what 90 they find to fight about but the very old
bones Of the very old beasts that fighting 3
far back even the curators OF museums can CO.
Dr. J. L. Workman has resigned the position OF
curator of the departments Of vertebrates Of the
Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, because he dis
agreed with the Rev. DR.. ". J. Holland the
Of the museum, about bones from Wyoming.
One of them said that they the bones Of
brontosaurus, and the other said that they belonged
10 a dipsodocus magnihcus and naturally
could no longer hold them. CThe curators:
II would hold the bones)
II is said that body OF men of science cannot
get peaceably any more than sewing circle, but
il seems TO be the way. Nobody can help being
minded OF the society upon the Stanislaus which
Bret Hartes friend Truthful James described so
eloquently years ago. That unfortunate, too.
and the trouble substantially the that
between the two curatOrs now. For II will be
menbered that the society got beautifully for
six months,
TIL Brown Of CaIaveras brought lot Of fossil
That found within q tunnel near the tenement
Of Jones.
This was the beginning Of that spirited and mem
cradle meeting. 1t was a quiet enough beginning
Then Brown he read a paper. and ne reconstructed
From those same bones animal that
And Jones then asked the Chair for suspension Of
the rules
TIL ne could prove that those same bones was
Of mis- lost mules
Could any man Of science be expected to hear
this?
Then Brown he smiled bitter smile and said he
It seemed he had been trespassing on Jones's fam
lily vault.
Il Is all very well for DR.. Watts TO tell about
birds agreeing in their little nests but the bron-
tosaurus and the dipsodocus ma gnifcus and the
curators never could The affair on the Stauislaus
went on Till
-Abner Dean, of Angels, raised point Of order,
chunk Of old red sandstone took him in the
abdomen.
And II kept on getting worse and the society never
nnuntion Evolution goes on. it IS true. but slowly
SLOWLY