The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-27
TO FINISH STORY
huins Found in Peru Tell Of
Ancient Race.
History Revealed by Kansas De-
pOsits Gave Start.
FIND NEW EVIDENCE
That Evolution Is Explanation
of Modern Life.
Great Work of Discovery Again
Credited to Yale.

remnants of the prehistoric and an
Parently highly-civilized races who
occupied one of the great plateaus of
nterlor Peru is sure to be mum bered
among the greater achievements of
That kind of which the wear 1911 re-
cords several others. This Peruvian
discovery was briefly and. of course
slpef1clally. announced by Professor
Hlfafn bingham, who, with other in
slructors OF Yale university. started
immediately after the Yale com
mencement in June last for perm
Inese ruins, in their crumbled or dis
Jolhled remains, demonstrate that the
men who planned and the artisan no
who built them typified a civiIiza+jor
tlaI became extinct when the Incas
OF Peru or other savage or Indian
tflpe5 overwhelmed that civilization. /
ana X is, of course a working hvpo-
thesis for the archaeologists that these |
ruins may point the way BY which I
sep by step, they may trace the his /
tory OF the civilized peoples who ages
ago occupied a considerable portion
OF western United States.
WIN hypothesis and theories how
ever this Yale exploring expedition
was not at all concerned It's work
was exclusively that of research. This
ale expedition was in search of facts
and made the hoped-for discoveries,
OF, at least, some of them.
For Men OF Science.
Very likely the great work OF
science which has been in progress
since the hypothesis of evolution was
accepted as a possible explanation of
modern forms of life, animal plant
and organic, will be stimulated bv the
achieVem ents of Professor Bowman
who was the geoIogist of the expedi-
ton, and by Professor H. l. Tucker
who was the archaeologist-e engineer
Pese men of science seem to have
AscoYered in Peru silent and rock
1bedded testimony telling of some of
ne animal or plant life which existed
n that part of South America ages
iago- For Professor Bingham. who
was the spokesman of the party on its
arrival in this city, stated briefly that
very rare fossils were discovered near
CuzcO. These fossils proved that the
coastal region of Peru had been sub
merged and raised several times, pos
sibly at intervals of many thousands
OF years
Men of science now say that when G
the accurate description of these fOS-
sis and possibly the photographs or
hibited so that the paleontologists are I
able to study them, there will be add
ed new chapter to the wonderful
book based upon the now historic ex-
plorations of Professor o. G. Marsh of I
Yale. made between 1871 and 1888, to
the Rocky mountain region and to the
plains which slope away from these
mountains toward the Missouri in the
wonder-causing crustacean strata of t
Kansas c
A Boost for Yale. S
II WOQlQ De regarded as most nap
by coincidence if the monumental I
work done by Professor Marsh Of G
Yale with his associates. who are stu I
dents or instructors at Yale, was now
to be supplemented by discoveries r
made by the most recent of Tale eX- 7
ploring expeditions. How mOnumen- I
tai Professor Marsh's work was, was c
testified to both by Professor Thomas
Henry Huxley, when he visited the c
United States in 1876 ostenibly to de- g
liver the address at the dedication of
Johns Hopkins university at Balti- t
more. and little later by the acknoW-
ledgment made by Darwin himself to
Professor Marsh in which he said that
the discoveries made by Professor I
United States had advanced the phil a
osophy of evolution at least twenty 2
years o
Professor Narsh's expedition discover +
81 the fossil remains of an entirely new
type of pterOdactyis, so that 1t was in +
the new world that the first important, {
really conclusive demonstration was v
made by means of fossils or the petr1- +
fed remains of animals that Darwin t
was not astray when he ventured to b
PROFOUND the hypothesis Of evolution 0
The Material Benefits. t
These researches and the orderly and Fl
systematic collection and arrangement "
Il the results of them have been or :
ar more than academic interest and i'm 81
,Ortance to the people. But for them
vale university would not now possess
me of the worlds great collections
which students of science visit and
ipend days in studying
E31lt for researches of this kind New e
York city would not now possess one
# the greatest, and in some details
Equally the greatest, of the world 5
83lseurns of natural history The r.
y,1seu11 itself is a great object les u
an. a silent, but wonder working, =
ehool. which has been Of incalculable s.
.dvantage to the people not only OF 81
leV York. but to those who represent
many parts of the United States and -
ally thrOng the premises ~ -
An Epoch Making Work. %
Nv a very happy coincidence it hap w
" : that just at this time the presi-
emf of the New York museum of nat "a
raj history, Professor Henry Fair N,
- Osborn has published work upon ~
,7ich he has been engaged for many m
cars and which competent men of
cience say will permanently embody p,
.is right to a place in the ranks I'll
= The greatest men of science of the -,
III 20 years Of the nineteenth century
~ fine first ten of the present
Professor OsbOrn'S work is a profound
t,,fv of the historic story of the growth
nd age of mammals. 1t would have
cen impossible to write it but for the =.
asearches of Marsh and the wonder II
m collections of fossils and other forms
T prehistoric animal life which are
~ to be studied in the museums of
treat Britain and the continent of m
europe. CO
He Had Great Opportunity. to
Professor Osborn had especial oppor- Y
unity as a student of paleontology CT
and kindred subjects As a young man II
he was one of the scholars whom Profess
;or Huxley SO impressively and in
itructiveIy taught One Of the finest
ributes 10 Professor Huxley's achieve nc
nents. was g description written by fr
Professor Osborn shortly after the &c