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THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE,

SIR ARTHUR KEITH ON HUMAN

EVOLUTION, A

-WHY MAN IS TAILLESS,

Delivering the second of his lectures at their terminal. These ships are the the Royal Institution recently on the Majestic, Leviathan Berengaria, Olpe machinery of human evolution, Professor With regard to vessels of Sir Arthur Keith throw fresh light on the

and Aquitaniation of dry-dock facilities mains that have been and are being, en-

this size the

are German-

is of great important unmedi

Three of the

played by untare to make muun more litteri to his environment. The senski festure built al

provision

www made for Aryat his hea on the principde vi natur

is, that there is as grim a docking them at Hamburg by building ruggle huge floating dock. This structure was

selection going on in embryonic life, as to Great Britain after the wines when once man has been born. surrendered to And the White Star Campany offered the

Sir

Kati illustrated this theory ARTUR Government mono for it. The sun manded, howen er, was

brys with this

of spending departments Government existing under the tyranny Girdde EXO.. Until the KD WAS

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was consilures fun way La00,000, and this by cuparing the various parts of it

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ons far too high, the negotiations

the

British Govern and then

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ment sold the flear Dock at South. /?perative, each spent wore or less accord

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ing to its desires, at once the axe came into force every expenditure had to be of gan pakt be justified. The body compared with such a city a Loulon, with one process making for improvement and aucther resisting change. In the body co

£10,000 The

impton, after a little extension, is now cap- able of accommodating vessels of except the Vajestic and feriatadi. To ave this liability a dating dry docks by Messrs. Arm construction ander Strong

Whitworth and to, and when it is completed and in place it will not be found survivals comparable with the news of the supersesle hanson, or the cessary for the two vessels naine to be chadaliers and candelabrs intended! to be drylockodi elsewhere.

used for candles.

is

bol

Some of these remnants or vestigial structures were very old, while others were mars scout rintal OKEL

There was, for in-

staner, tho

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It is an interesting question as to how many ports there are in the world where ships of this enormous tonnage cats under- repair or cleaning. The only gray ing doek in the British Islands which is the horse or os, this served aveful

i pable of admitting those huga vessels the Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. Unfortun-purpose, for the animal, after allowing foo ately, however, this is at present out of to pass the front teeth and the mouth, was ofable domnitely to sinell in by tho palatol commission and will remain so for tho

next

18 months during which time that section nose in the mouth before it reached the

throut

Oner, however, the ape had devi. | of the state of the Marvey Ducks and hoped the haut ant acquired the habit of Harbour Bard is being extended and deve using this organ to approach the food to the loped. New dorks are being, constructed,

noge before taking it into the mouth, tho and a

a new river entrance pind

Valag

of the nose clets situated in the roof' of

Thuf dry-dock aceannidation the inouth vanished, and was only n

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vestigial structure long before man cang into existence.

The pineal gland was even oldre in clare. Į the reptile it was in effect a thiel aye, situated on the buck, and, as is then was, served a useful function. In

man it thr

been sauk deep in the brain, and survived only because, like the chandelier, it had taken on in Roue mysterious way a new function, that of regulating growth.

THE GEDDES AXE IN SATURK Naturalists had long realised that Xatire utilised a Geddes axe, but they weg wor tain how this axe operated. Unlike the Simian order to which man belonged, be In this was naked excopt on the hem. connection it was interesting to notice that six weeks before birth the anthropoid was as naker as the new-born frumani child. In song way or other Nature hand succeeded in arresting hair growth in human bodies at the stage reachid by anthropoids before Birth.

Nature scene, in fact, to nip a useless structure in the burl, instead of allowing it to and then eliminating it. grow up

le with probal that the chemiet, messengers bent out by the three amail the pituitary, the thyroid, and the supresented

of the anschluery by which there was aptation of the embryo..

It was clear

that at one time

man had canine teeth as weapons of

and 124 9 4 defence These, however, were fully formed before they came into action, and, therefore, 100 36 3

their disappearance could not be due to their non-utilisation. It was to be presumed that their reduction in size was due to the of substaners thrown into the modification circulating blood,

Southampton:

Trafalgar Dork

$97

Le Havre:

Cale du Bassin th

3laren

7,040

113

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Dry Dock Bombay:

*

Hughes Dry Duck .....1,000 Quebec:

Victoria (BC): Dry

Deck

1:20

30

Bestors

(Mass);

"Dock

Commonwealth Dry

1,2x

Blomerton (Wash):

Dry

Dock...

Dry

Dry

San

Norfolk (Va.):

Dock.

......1,022

bia (Navy Yard):

Philadock m

Francisco:

....... 1,022

Dry Dock (Hunters

Point No....1,090

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THE TAIL IN MAN.

Surgeons in examining recruits for war to tind 130236 purposes had been surprised

that arees of an outward tail were com- moner than had been thought. In the sixth week of development every human embryo had a tail, but this, instead 11443 of growing in

.144

40

150

40

Balboa (Panama):

Terminal Dry Dock

No. 1...1,110

110

47.9

Pearl Harbour (Hawaii):

Dry

Dock .........: 1,208

114

33

London:

King George V.

100

33

Filbury

70

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Singapore:

100

2-k

The Kings Dock...... 879

EINSTEIN'S THEORY.

SOLAR ECLIPSE CONFIRMATION.

Dr. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory and head of the Wallal Expe- dition, in slatement, sLYS) -**

дя in the

dis pelow the

withered and as it did in the case of the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the

ouring-outeng, and gibbon. The loss of the tail in man was similar to what occurred to the tadpole,

and if the thyroid gland of the tadpole was not healthy, and if it failed to send out the requisite chemical messengers into the blood stream, the tail of the tadpole failed to disappear.

The

nature of the machinery, Sir Arthur Keith irisisted, never could be understood by the biologists, who believed that the embryo went on repeating in the womb tha history of its anc

ancestors. This argament

had led certain men to believe that the spo WAS

As descended from man instead of man from the ape, view absulatels disproved

by the

Herbert Spencer geological records. had long ago advised biologists to study the Ponpes of cities and nations in order to how human and animal bodies and The photographs of the eclipse of the attained to their present high estates. suu confirm Einstein's theory. The photo. In the body of

of an embryo, as in a city, graphs were secured with two specially there was a continual struggle going on designed cameras, with lenses having between the reformers and the die-hards apertures of sin. in diameter al focal In the cuiyonic body it lengths of 15ft. Four sensitive plates.

to suppose that there was a contin

between the various departments 17in square, cach recorded the images if regulating, development

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growth. of stars in the group sur, several scoreS munding the gun, though in reality these the strugg uscless structures like the tail

were starved out.

The struggle for sur- stars were many

million times as far away were

viral, recognised by Darwin as part of from us as the sun. The same camerna were used three months earlier at Tahiti the machines of evolution, was as, true of

to photograph: the same stars when they wore in a night sky and without the sun in their midst.

Einstein raid that his theory must stand three astronomical tests successfully or he revised, one of the three tests consisting of the eclipse problem, with which we are now concerted. Dr. Trumpler and myself in recent months each measured three of the four Australian plates and three.com responding

onding night plates completely, inde- pendently. The number of star images measured on the plates varied from sixty- two na

a minimum to eighty-four ax & maximum. Four out of six tests of mensures have been subject to rigorous mathematical treatment, and five resulte for the heading of stellar rays just close accord. grazing the They vary from a minimum of 1.59 seconds of are to 1.86. The average of the five values is 174 seconds of arc.

are

This," Dr. Campbell continued, in as close na the most ardent proponent of the Einstein theory could hope for-Reuter

Three million gallons of rain have ro cently fallen in Aden As the Adenites only get a shower about once in seven years they must be feeling quilo refreshed, The great tanks become pretty low in the course of sevon years and a bath in Aden" becomes a luxury. But one can always bathe in the seni

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the living units waking up an embryo as it was of human communitie

In both cases the struggle was regulated, in one case by legislation, in the other by chemical messengers or hormones, while. no far as man was concerned the womb, must

regarde as Natures great experimental laboratory.

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