PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
Modern Conception of Protoplasm
FILM OF AN ECLIPSE.
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PRIMEVAL MAN;
Comedy of the Patagonian Skull
Solving Sky's Secrets in ~~ Wilds of Australia. ~~ Fifty-five years ago, on a Sun- How immense an amount of Anthropologists will not be day evening in Edinburgh, Huxles work was involved in photograph surprised at the decision arrived discoursed on the "physical basising the sun to test the Einstein at by the committee of experts. of life," warning his audience that theory is shown by the film, The which has submitted the million to accept his conclusions would be Sun Worshippers, witnessed year old human skull discover. "to place one's foot on the first privately recently by many ed in Patagonia to a critical rung of a ladder which, in most eminent astronomers examination. The result of the This film, which is the official fuquest is the definite declaration people's estimation, is the reversa
of Jacob's and leads to the anti-record of the "international ex-that the skull is only a podes of heaven. Last month pedition headed by Professor "curiously shaped stone," batirely
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MILK. BUTTER. MEATS. lecture by Professor E. B. Wil-tory party to the wilds of North This alleged akull was found by son, than whom there is no higher West Australia in September lasta sotiler a few miles from Santa living authority on the structure commences its pubile exhibition Cruz in 1916, and was submitted of the cell and of protoplasm, on at the Albert Hall recently last February to Dr. Wolf, the same subject. He recalledir F. W. Dyson, the Astro German geologist, who had no Huxley's famous address with nomer Royal said that astro- besitation in describing it as the admiration, accepted its general nomers knew the difficulty in skull of a human being contem philosophical import, and stated photographing an eclipse. Theyporary with the tertiary age, and the changes in the conception of now knew that the filming diffi- at least a million years old. It protoplasm which the research of culties were even greater.
was, he asserted."" exceptionally half a century has made neo- essary."
"I was astonished," he said, long in proportion to its width, had to know that an aeroplane was well-marked frontal eminences,
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By 1868 the work of many bio. flying once a week from Perth to and was most probably the skull logists had shown the bodies of Wallal to keep the expedition it of a female. men, animale, and plants to be touch with the outside world, built up of the units known as although she is a factor in in his deductions. Patagonia THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. calle, of which not the wall or astronomy, there is satisfaction in would have provided evidences boundary, but the contents, were getting ahead of scientific com- of the existence of man 500,000 the essential living part. A coll, petitors, and the Australian film years earlier than the oldest in short, was a unit, nuolented is one of which the organisers human remains previously dis- covered in any part of the world. piece of protoplasm, and it was to may feel proud.”
FIVE MILES FROM SHORE. But though some of the papera this protoplasm that Huxley gave the name "physical basis of life," In spite of immense dust clouds, printed long descriptions of this because it was found in all cells, the film successfully depicts the million-year old skull, accom with the same apparent physical elaborate scientific preparations.panied by imaginary pictures of qualities, the same general che. The transport bad to moor five what its owner was like. mical composition, and the same miles from shore owing to the those qualified to form living properties of movement and great tides, and whale-bosts opinion preserved an open mind; irritability, and powers of feeding, beach. There, the native women old enough to contain fossils of landed the apparatus on Wallal for though Patagonia has deposita growing, reproducing.
Hur'ey recognized that all pro. helped in the camping, and a the most ancient human beings, taplasm was not identical, that it wireless plant was installed.
A 40ft. camera was built, and ported from that part of the differed from individual to indivi all instruments were placed under world have stood the test of dual and from species" to
canvas to protect them from wind. expert species, but he and his contem Close to the Crooker expedition definitely human have proved to examination. Those poraries bad seized on the great the Canadians built a 15ft, camera, be of comparatively recent date: generalization that it did form the common basis of life. Ho and And the Indian party erected their and in the case of a few of
they insisted with vigour that
instruments.
Motion pictures are shown of there was no more resaca to the actual eclipse. As the moon epeak of "vitality" as something advanced across the face of the imposed on the material basis of lite from without, and independ- sun the sea turned a lurid red ept of it, than there was to speak colour, the magnificent streaming
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proved antiquity they have turn- ed out not to be bumsn.
JAVA FOSSIL STILL OLDEST. Now that the Patagonian "ekulli
turns out to be a piece of stone, oorona became visible, and the Pithecantropus erectus, found in
of the atquosity" of water aboriginals held corroborees." Java some forty years ago, the The qualities' and properties of Painted in horrible designs, they water were due to the oacerted danced round the fires they had action of the chemical molecules built as a sacrifice to the sun-god composing water. The qualities of life were to be regarded as due believing that the world was to the concerted sotion of the coming to an end.
Meanwhile, the astronomers, molecules composing protoplasm who had been drilling in their It was clearly in the minds of biologists at that time that it perte for weeks, worked frantical. protein, the chemical substance to secure successful, photos of which white of egg is the most familiar example could be eyn. thesized, science would be very close to the artificial production of life.
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Professor E. B. Wilsdo shows that the advance of knowledge makes it loss surprising that pro- toplasm should display the mani. fold qualities of life, but that wo are at least no closer to the pos Bibility of artificial synthesis.
Settlerstravelled hundreds of miles to see the eclipse photographed.
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age of which, bas been estimated at 500,000 years, keeps its place as the oldest fossil remains yet discovered with any resemblance to man. But though Haeckel accepted the Java fossil as the long-sought missing link, the verdict of most anthropologists and naturalists is that the skull and thigh-bone-the only portions of Pithecanthropus erectus dis covered are those of an advanced species of ape.
So far the skull excavated nine) years ago at Piltdown, Sussex, is probably the most ancient remains of definitely human origin yet un | earthed. Its period has been
placed as between 100,000 and) 200,000 years ago, it is clear. ly human, and measurement The letters shown above can be shows that its brain capacity Protoplasın-cau-no-longer-be-re-arranged to form a famous is nearly 70 per cent, that of the garded as a single homogenous oriental symbol that signifies average living man and quite substance. It is a mixture of "good luck." Can you arrange equal to that of the modern un- many rubstancer, a mixture very them properly?
civilised savage. Next comes the complex. the seat of varied and Yesterday's answer:,
Neaderthal man, whose bones The number 50 should be divid-were dug up near Dusseldorf in coatingous chemical transforms- tions, and yet gach piece holding ed into 31 and 15. If the larger 1856, whose family roamed over fast for countless generations to (35) is divided by 7, the result will Europe from 20,000 to 50,000 years its own specific type. We must be . If the smaller (15) is ago, so advanced in civilisation that think of many protoplasm, rather multiplied by 3, 45. will be the the females fastened their clothes than of protoplasm, and-of each result. The sum of 5 and 45 is together with bone pios. But our of them so having its own bis.50, thus filling the conditions of torical architecture and its own the puzzle, varied composition. The Hving]
cell is itself a complex oriantam, appears certain that these units
a microcosm, a living system.... must be of definite number,
earliest ancestor has yet to be found. Anthropologists expect to find him, not in America or Europe, but in Central Asia, where fossil remains of large-
CHIALI MILITARISTS. :
* The physical basis of life can separated by definite intervals, brained spos, probably his pre- no longer be thought of as a and arranged in s definite and cursors have been discovered, simple plasm. In the first place, serial order. But in addition to and where an expedition of It is what is called a colloidal the nuoleue there are many other American experts is searching system, and the vast advance bodies in the call which seen to for him at the present, tima
the chemistry, and physics of be self-perpetuating by similar Observer, colloids shows that many of the processes of division. qualities of living matter are lo The honeycomb-like structure: be explained by the qualities of of protoplasm is the mere visual colloids, The life of the cell le a expression of the presence, of property of the whole system, numerous smaller bodies scat-
Trying to get Poison Gas. depending on the totality of the tered in the homogeneous ground A sensational report appears in phases of the phases of that substance. The higher the power the N, C. Daily Mail. It is to the ayetem:
of the microscope used, the more effect that the British Municipal STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEUS. Dumerous are the bodies which Police of Tientsin Have received become visible, and the invention information that recently two Next, the call is now known to of the ultra-microscope has made well-dressed Chinese apparently have a much поге complex
us aware of the existence of sus of the official class were in the number of parte, arranged in pended protoplasmic particles too Concession inquiring where they what may be called a historical small to be seen directly, but could buy" wind poison" or the Architecture, than could have been imagined in the time of betraying themselves by their materials to make it. It transpir halos when viewed by powerful ed that what they were after was Huxley. The nucleus slope is reflected light.
poison gas. They visited one composed of a number of "com. ponents strung out in linear Clearly scier.oe has gone for establishment desting in chemi- alinement in long threads, beyond the conception that if we cals, but were informed that such and the process of cell division could bring together the molecules business could not be transzoted. shows the existence of an elabor of the chemical substances com The matter has been brought ate machinery to secure a fair posing protoplasm we should to the attention of the British distribution to the daughter cells have realized the hopes of those Consulate in Tientsin which is who first understood the import anderstood to have issued warn- not only of the whole nuclear
acce of the physical basis of life.ings to firms as to the illegality mass but of each distinct com-In addition to chemistry and of dealing in any materials for ponent. It seems probable, more- over, that this visible structure physics, every piece of living the manufacture of the gas. The protoplasm has behind it an report is current that the two
is no more than the rough ex-incredibly long history, crystallimen belonged to the Chihli Mili- pression of a finer structure still beyond the reach of the micros-zed in structure, and possibly tary Commission:
Klways beyond our powers of opera
cope Experimental breeding artificial reproduction. But this especially on the lines opened up new knowledge only makes more
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of heredity depend on the Burley that the qualities, of life arrangement and behaviour of infaitesimal material unity, each are dependent on the structure
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