Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-01

Sc. d. He was 8 professor for nine years at
Princeton and then went to Columbia His con-
necton with the American Museum of Natural
History began in 1891 he has been president since
1908 He elected secretary of the Smithsonian
institution in 1906, but declined the honor. Edu-
catiOnal institutions and scientific societies have
showered hOnors on him. Last year he was award
ed the Roosevelt medal, for promoting the study
of natural history.
It may be here stated, for the benefit Of the
reader, that the biologists and psychologists
have made five divisions Of geologic time. These
five eras are, beginning with the oldest: Archeo-
zoc, ProterozOic, Paeozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozo1c
The first part of the Mesozoic Era is the Age of
Amphibians and the second part the Age OF Rep
tiles The first part of the Cenozoic Era, the Ter
tiary Period is the Age Of Mammals; the most re-
cent Fart the Quartenary Period is the Age of Man.
The "Ape-Man Of Java" is supposed to have
lived about 100000 years ago; the "PiltdoWn Man
In England and France from 100000 to 100000
years ago; the "Neanderthal Man" in Central
France $4,000 years ago. The "CrO-Magnon Man.,
Homo sapiens, who belonged to the same species
Of man that do, is supposed to have invaded
western Europe about $4,000 years ago.
Dr. Osborn holds that western Europe was never
center of human evolution The main racial
evolution took place to the eastward the various
types making their way to western Europe. OF
all the western European races no one was an
cestral to any other Each succumbed in turn, in
GLIDING the Cro-Magnon. Then came several diff
fering types of humanity, apparently from Asia,
all of which can be discerned today in Europes
exceedingly mixed population
Said DR. Straton from his pulpit:
"Some time ago I made visit to the American
Museum of Natural History when / spent several
hours with DR.. Osborns main associate in the mu-
scum and professor in Columbia university. Lit
orally hundreds Of school children passed through
the Hall Of the Age Of Man and looked at the
exhibits of those old bones with the recreations of
aIlppnd men eff Thev came bV caSSoS-grOupS
of 25, 40 and 50-an of them accompanied by their
teachers.
"The scene was interesting There the first
showcase In the ha-a sort Of synopsis of the
whole theory. Down at one end Of the line in that
showcase they have the skull of a little monkey
no bigger than ones fist Next to it is the skull
of an orangoutang, and then chmpanzee, and
then an old male gorilla, and then young gorilla,
and then the so-called Java ape-man,' and then a
bronze model bust Of that gentleman, and then the
Piltdown skull and then the NeanderthaP skull,
and then the Talgai SKULL and then the 'Cro-Mag-
nom skull and at last the skull of modern white
man.
"Now all of these skulls are placed side by side
in a sort of sliding scale, and though they came
from widely separated parts of the earth and have
absolutely no conceivable connection one with the
other casual glance naturally creates the i'm
started with the tiny skull of the little monkey at
one end and that each one of these forms of ami
mails came out of the other, up and up until mod
ern man reached"
Here some of the things DR., Straton said in