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Geology of Gobi Basin.

The geological results of the

MONDAY, FEBRUARY

PRE-HUMAN AFRICA.

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1925.

NURSING DRAGON-FLY NYMPHS.

Professer As Foster-Farent,

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Connection With South America. The main facts or probabilities can Museum of Natural History in surveying the history of the fourth of his lectures to juveniles Asiallo Expeditions of the Ameri- Impressed on a natural history Prof. F. Balfour Browno, in the include a detailed study of the mammalian fauns of Africa are on "The Habits of Insects," at basin structures of Mongolia a four in number (says Sir Harry the Royal Institution last month,

the Ninotoonth first' instalment of which is pre Johnston in

in the appeared sonted by C. P. Borkoy and F. K. Contury) :---

phenomenally pationt foster 1. The oarly separation of parent of a family of dragon-fly Morris in the Bull, Am. Mus. Nat,

Morocco and Algeria from nymphs. Hist., vol. 1, 1924, pp. 103-127.

Between the Arctic and the Western Nigeria, by an arm of Pacifle divides los the Gobi the son or an immenso expanse

folk Broads and little was known Basin, a down-warped plateau of shallow water, bounded by rims that stand some That Egypt has been the about the habits of dragon-les, |3000 fost above ite average lovel, main door of entry to the African ho adopted a family of 175 in the Within it are many minor basins continent for its manimalian nymph stage, housing* each one

at the authors distinguish by fauna.

in a separate tumbler. On

Some Ravantoon years ago, be

said, when he lived on the N

the torm talas (Mongol for "opon 3 That thore remains a curious avorage they were no larger stoppelande"). Each of these in gap in distribution (perhaps only than one twenty-fifth of an incli, turn contains stili emallor basins of recent origin) between East, but "Every day, for a fortnight," which are the gobis propor of the and South Africa. This occurs ho declared, "I measured ouch Mongols. The basemont rocks in Northern Zambazia-Nyasa- one of those nymphs. I started make up a doformed complex that land-Mozambique.

early in the morning and son. probably corresponds on the whole

tinued till late at night." (Loud to the Archaoan of other lando,

juvonilo olapping.) and in particular to the Tai Shan complex of China,

In this intervening gap botwoon the basin of the Rufiji River on the north and the whole course

But that was not all. He had of the Zambozi River on the south, to feed as well as measure them, Above those there are probably nany striking gonora and species or there would be nothing left to representatives of the Middle of mammals are missing which monauro. Bo ho put dung, willow and Upper pro-Cambrian and all aro oharacteristic of East and of roots, etc., into the water of oool are cut by an immense bathylith South Africa. Thore are no glass, and out camo swarms of Next come infolded romants of giraffer, no trus gazelles or oryx slippor animalcula, on which the | Carboniferous and Permian antolopos, no ostrichos, no socre. little creatures fed during their marino sediments, and a more tary birds, no otocyon foxes, no early stages. He noticed that, xtensiva sorios of continental black-jackals; and many other while not demanding living food, alasnica that Boem to be of beasts and birds characteristic of they insisted on at least moving Lower Jurassic ago. All those both South and Enst Africa are food, and would only touch oldor formations were strongly miesing-an altogether unaonanimato substanco if it was

dangled to and fro bofore them.

toided and worn down to a mature countable fact.,

Ponoplain before the noarly 4. That during the Secondaries Prof. Browno's next achieve- aorizontal basin sediments wore and up to the middle of the ment was to measure the length deposited. Those belong to the Miccsce Tertiaries there must of the antennae of each one of bis Cretaceous and Tortlary, and re-have subsisted a broad land belt foster-family in relation to the presont a continuation of contin- connecting West Afrios with longth of each segment of them at entaiconditionsthat havoporsisted Brazil and Guiana. This land different stages, and atrike right down to the present day,

bolt-remains of which are ovid-averagos by means of a carefully- Two types of Gobi basins are eat in the sea-bottom-is noces kept chart. Thus he found that recognised: one characterised by sary to explain the remarkable the contro of growth was always a faulted margin on the south, similarity between the ancient at the base. where the basins abut against fauna of Africa and Madagascar that af Eastern South alt-block ranges of cand

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The superlative trial of ondu* ranco, howover, came when sud": donly he had to shift to Ireland. taking in Scotland on the way Exactly ninoty-eight of theso nymphs he took with him in! tubus and tumblors, the remain- dor of the tumblors being packed by the removal men. "I think," No scheme of Indian progress he remarked "that those removal is worth consideration (says a men woro auspicious that I kept writor in Blackwood) that ignores a public-house without a licence." the very foundation of Indian lifa On arrival in Scotland all the -namely the caste system, little nymphs had to be unpackod On the whole, then, the Angara- Although utterly uncompre-and attended to Gobia continent seems to have honded in England, and there re-journey was resumed, boon stable for long periods, and garded as a medieval aristocratic were only two casualties, whero Telophone Contral 3217. to have suffered regional denuda-survival, the casta ayatom in he had filled the tubes too full of tion over eince tho Jurassic fold-reality is a democratic institution water and left no room for air. ing. Complementary sedimenta-in what Kipling has called in Some of the nymphs, which he tion within its own borders is ro-" Kim" the only domocratio put into incubators through gistered only where gentle warping country in the world. In India the winter, wont on oat- and marginal faulting provided upon this casto system depending and maturing, and batched emporary collecting basins. the dignity of labour, personal out into winged dragon-flies

and communal hygiene, public in ton months, at least and private decency, and year before they otherwise would economic officiency.

have done. This might account To those Socialists in the Wost for the ewarms which occurred particularly in who suspect it of being a more periodically, capitalist shackle on the workors places like Heligoland, on the

that

the il Lay be explained that assumption soldier is frequently of higher unusally mild winter the young the field labourer or common Northern countries experienced

casto than the princo

who nymphs hatched out before their It is, perhaps, not gonerally employs him; and that if there batime, so that one got two seasons' known that no Eastern country any laristocratic idea present, it progony taking wing together. bas takon in recent years such concerns an aristocracy af Dragon-flies, the lecturer point! energetic, or on the whole, such jspiritual and not of Belgivian od out, wore brightly coloured and successful measures as have been values. There has been much boautiful because they wore sun- taken in Persia, without any talk between conflicting British lovors, whoreas night Insects promptings from outside sources, political parties as to whether tended to bo dull, and oven, to restrict consumption and to India is ripo" or "unrips" for according to our standards, ugly. bring the production and manu-Western forms of Government. Porhaps the latter wore nocturnal facture of opium undor control. Will such simple provincial because they knew thoir ap- But the Persian Government provincials novor learn that India poarence was none too attractive.] cannot reduce the cultivation of is "over-ripo" for the rathor It reminded him of a farmer| the poppy as yet without immenso naive and crudo idealism of the who, going into the farmyard one loss to the Exchequer, and with-West, and only desires and noods night, saw one of his labourors out risking its own stability. Western advice and guidanco on going off with a lantorn. "Where There is no drug problem severely concrete mattors where be goin', Garge?" he asked him, circumstancos and And Garge said: "I bo goin' exists in tho United States. abnormal conditions hamper her courtin' mastor." "Why, when Opium Was familar to the native genius? Sumerians and Babyloniane 40

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It would be difficult to say which the juniors enjoyed most, that littlo anecdote or the lecturer's fascinating description of the way in which these little febrifuge, and the starveling's a 40 ft. web, strong enough to "ymphs spilt their skins and. solace it is daily used to case catch small birds, is the latest sailed out on their virginal flights the pain of thousands of sick and addition to the London Zoo in as free, glorious spirits of the air. injured men who cannot hope to sect house. obtain medical assistanco.

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Having no popular name, it has been dubbed a silk spidor by the without five of its sight logs. A officials.

third had died, apparently whi 1 This appellation is certainly changing its skin. challenge' comparison with the appropiate, for, apart from the A portion of web, enclosed in polyglot communities of tho Now enormous size of its web, the silk, the box had the remains of) World, for whose sake it is which is yellow in calour, is much soveral grasshoppers enmeelied, apparently desired to circum-stronger than that of the domes-and the wing cases alone were Boribo the libertion of Eastern tic silkworm (says Nature fully 3 in. long. races who can uso without abus-writer).

In the African foreste malo ing stimulants. The existence in The silk of this African spider Western countries of a few weak- has been tried commercially, but birds have been found similarly minded drug addicts is a poor has been a failure because, I be trapped, while the sturdy woh has DICURO for undermining by lievo, of the diffoulty of procuring been known to remove the bats harassing legislation (the cost of the spider in sufficient numbers of travellere passing beneath. enforcing which is bound to be to make the venturo profitable. An effort is being made to vory heavy) the sturdy indivi; Spiders, unlike silkworms, are provide orickats for the Gambian dualism that is one of the most cannibalistic, and a second apaoi-gastronome, but, meanwhile, It onduring assets of the Perelan mon, which accompanied the will have to content itself with

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