Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-08-15

PRESIDENT Of ASSOCIATION
rOH ADVANCEMENT oF
StlENCE TALk>
RtVERSES OLDER THEORY
What Appears tr bc Extra Develop
mrnl> Ma, le caused 10y SUIT
pr >siun oi O,ci hgdoN-
iug Factors

81 Associated rrsss.
MELBOj RNE. Aug - rrol
William B,lcson. president of the
British Association Tor the Advance
mcnt of Science. declared today .u
an intensely interesting address bo-
fore that ORGANIZATION ~ - first
meeting IN Australia. that the old
view of ,ariatioas Ia forms of lite
proceeding from the simple to tb"
complex mighi be- completely turned
sbout Tho true process of e,olu
tiou might be- from Tho complex lo
the simple
II will BE- remembered THAI tl
last years meeting of this famous
organization IN Birmingham. Sir
oliver Lodge startled The scientific
world with the bold Introduction oi
a proposal Tor closer investigation
into the life after death" theory
To-day. Prof Batesou, with pcrhap-
less pronounced opinions. urged biz
fellow scientists 10 open their mind
20 The possibility that Evolution
came largely by loss" rather than
by addition
From q lay standpoint his obsor-
vations might be- summarized as fol-
lows. In contradiction oi Darwin
and OF most scientists Who have ac-
cepted the belief that contemporary
variations In the forms of lite have
come about wholly by crossing and
thus By the addition of new factor.
of life u Is probable that the varia-
tions are due TO the loss OF suppres-
sion OF factors presen. IN the origi-
nal species
\ pointed sentence was this re-
mark. "l have confidence that the
artistic gifts of mankind viii prove
10 be- due not 10 something added
10 the makeup OF the ordinary man.
bat 10 the absence OF factors which
IN the normal person inhibited the
development OF these gifts
Prof Bateson's subject was Here
dity. OF this he has made a particu-
bar study for many years tis will
be remembered by some Ia the Unit
cd States as Silliman lecturer az
Yale University seven years ago.
The stand he took In his address to-
day was not that OF propoundcr of
a theory The time for the develop
meni OF theories of the origin ol
life had not yet come be- said. the
student of ccnotics would rather
stick 10 the socd-pan and the incu-
bator
But In The face OF what had been
1 learned since the time OF Meddel
who was the first 10 apply the pro-
cess OF real analysis 10 the offspring
of plants and animals, the scope
claimed tor Natural Selection. as q
determining factor in the hNity of
/ the Species. as propounded by Dar.
win must be- greatly reduced
/ "Thc doctrine Of the survival %.
the fittest." he said. "is uudcn able
/ so long az 10 Is applied ~ the org
I ism ds q whole, but 10 attempt 10y
Ithi- principle to find value BOO all de-.
finitouCss of parts aud functions
and IN the name of science 10 so'
fitness everywhere b. mere olgb
! iconth century optimism Vet u va.
Z u application 10 the parts. ln ih'
"details of specific difference. ." iH'
I spots ON the pracoCk's tail io i1'
/ rolpriur uf ~" orchid flower and
hosts of such examples. that the p1
itency of Natural Selection was urge
/ with strongest ompha is Shoru o
Ithc.o protension- the doctrine of tt'
! survival Cf favored races is trglsU
helping scarcely at an ~ account fpl
the diversity OF species
"Tho appearance Of contcmporar'
variability proves go bc an illusio1
. Variation from step 20 step in th'
series must occur either by the ad
ditiou or by tho loss of factor
Now. of the origin OF new forms a'
loss there seems 10 me 20 be- falrl'
clear evidence. but of the cuntcm
porury there are rar" example
which may be SO Interpreted W.
are inr with picture uf variation
utterly different from that which Va
saw AZ first Variation nov stand
out a. a definite physiological event
We have done with the notion thH
Darwin came latterly to favor. 'ha
large differences can arise hy 49,
cumulatiou OF small difference
Such small difference are Oftel
mere ephemeral effects co. condition
OF life and a. such are not transm.-
-lble
The speaker referred 20 thc con
tentiou Sy Losty that the sole SQUIRE
.oi variation was by crossing. but Do
oiared this pas unsafe ground
spite of repeated trials no one ra
2 SET succeeded boz crossing the sNeo
pes with any other legumiuou- -pe
cies hp argued The picotte
sweet pea. with Us purple edges ra
surely be nothing but condition
which ordinarily makes the iuI
purpie flower. qIantitiatiyely dimin
ished The pied animal. such as 'h
Dutch rabbit. must similarly be- r'
garded as the result of partial defer
OF the ohromogen from which th
pigment is formed or conceiyahb %
factor which effects ~ oxidation
on such lines ! think We may wit
great confidence interpret all thos
iniergradiug forms which breed tru
end are not produced hy factoris
interference
Having In view these and otho
considerations which might be 40
veloped feel no reasonable dout
that though We may have o. forge