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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925.
THE NEW BIOLOGY.
Watching An Egg Hatching.
Biologists look forward to a
ROMAN DISCOVERIES.
Important Results ©At- York.
So valuable have beon tha re-
process developed at the Uni-sults of the three wooks' excava versity of Loyden, Holland, totions for Roman remains at York throw much light upon our that the work la boing continued knowledge of the growth of living for a further fortnight, "says a creatures,
Home paper of mail wook.
For the first time in history, With the object of obtaining the development of an embryo of evidence of the defensive system a warm blooded animal can be of the Roman fortress, the ex- watched and studied con-cavators have dug deep into the linuously.
post Roman bank on the rampart' Dr. J. P. M. Vogellar and south-east of Monk Bar, and Dr. J. B. Van den Booger' they have made discoveries of the University of Loydon which, so far as the Legionary have worked out A
mothod fortress, at all events, is concern- by which the shell can bood, are unequalled in this country: removed from the egg of a or elsewhere. In a trench about chicken and the ogg kept devolop-21 ft. deep, the fortress wall' bas ing in an incubator.
boon revealed from its footing on
Up until the present, biologists a foundation of cobble stones to a have been forced to place a large hoight of 15 ft., with the Roman number of eggs in an incubator rampart walk still in its place and then open them ono ata time and a portion of the parapot! at intervals.
above.
While this enabled the biologist to obtain embryos at all stages of development, it made it impossible to compura different stages in the sama ombryo.
This new method makos such a comparison possible.
SECRETS OF PEERAGE.
Valuable finds of pottery have helped to date the wall and an adjoining curve tower, now being gradually uncovered, as belong- ing to the end of the socond century-probably, the excava- tors think, they are reconstruc- tions following disaster in Northern Britain about 181 A.D.
The discoveries do not ond? here, for the wall has boon found to rest on a clay bank, obviously the wall. Behind this clay bank has been found a second rampart Half the poors of England whose walk of earlier date, under which titles are more than two hundred was a surprisingly large collec years old have marriage skeletonation of pottery of the period of hidden in the cupboards of their Vespasian (70-79 A.D.), in marked ancestral homes, according to contrast to the pottery of later Mr. Arthur S. May, Surrogate in dats in the debris under the ram- Doctors Commons, who publishes part walk of the stone wall. On a collection of tales of real life top of the clay rampart, which is marriage dramas under the title scribed to the time of Agricola of "Marriage a la Mode" (John 179 A.D., there is evidence of a Custle, 159.).
palisade, a post hole having been His book is entirely historical discovered, with packing and a It begins with the story of mer-little piece of the original post riagos celebrated in the neigh-itself." bourhood of the famous Floot Prison: It toúchos lightly on tha
Archbishop Who Eloped. artificial and of earlier date than
.
There are now four stages of romance of Gretna, May Fair, the Roman occupation represent- and the Savoy, where hundredeed at York by the clay rampart, of people went through a form of the two stone walls, and the re- marriage only to find sub-mains of the late third or early century wall in the sequently that it was illegal, and fourth
that their children wore illegiti-Museum Gardens, facing the mato, and ends, with full details River Ouse,
of some of the marriages of people
whose names figure continually
in the bistory of Englund.
Montion is made of Lords An
randalo, Abergavenny, Mayo, and Banff, brothor of a Lord
GAME REFUGE.
Chancellor, and of Honry Fox, Big Mississipi Project.
founder of the Holland family, as
having been married in the Floet. Plans for the establishment of Beau Brummell, according to Mr. a sanctuary for animal life on May, met his fate, and Lord the upper Mississipi River are Robert Montagu married Mrs. beginning to materialize. Tho Harriet Dunch, of Whitehall, movement started some years ago there, where "Joshua Lilly, 'At under the auspices of the Izaak the Hand and Pop, next door to Walton League of America. the china shop,' was ready to
In 1924 Congress passed an act wait on any person in town or making possible the purchase of land for the establishment of The Hand and Pen," need-what was to be known as the up- less to add, was an inn. It gained
country
such a reputation as a marrying per Mississipi River Wild Life
and Fish Refuge.
house that three of its rivals pirated the name in a district
And now President Coolidge
where every house had its parti-has just issued an executive order cular tout searching for people withdrawing from settlement, who wished to be married, and entry or sale, all istands owned hung out the sign, Marriages by the United States in the Mis- sissipi River between Rock Is-
performed here,"
FLEET WEDDINGS.
land, Ill.. and. Wabasha, Minn.
"The Floot Parson," says Mr. In addition, headquarters have May typifies the degradetion of now been established at Winona, the eighteenth century, The Minn., and officials of the U. S. rules were contantly disregarded. Department of Agriculture are The Floot Parson was not the boginning the work of purchasing person to trouble himself about land on both sides of the river be- unnecessary details,"
tween Rock Leland and Wabasha:
The celebration of marriagos) This is a stretch of about 300 outside canonical hours and con-miles. trary to the custom was not con- The Bureau of Biological fined to the Fleet. Mr. May mon- Survey of the Agriculture De tions Dr. Alexander Keith, who partment is to administer the new performed such ceremonies at the refuge. Officials of this bureau are Chapel of May Fair for a con- enthusiatie over the plans for it. sideration," and Dr. John Wilkin-
They point out that the refuge son, minister of the Savoy, who
will sorve a double purpose. It boldly advertised marriages
will not only conserve the wild performed with tho utmost privacy, secrecy, decency, and life within it, but it will also pro- rogularity. There are five private vide a much-needed Bufo rosting ways by land to this chapol and and feeding place for the migra two by water." He was eventual-tory birds which cross the con- ly convicted and sentenced to de-tinent each year. portation.
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Wild birde, game animals, fur- bearing animals, treos, wild Mr. May mentions on Archbishop of Canterbury, three flowers and plants, fish, mussels Lord Chancellors, and Lord and other aquatic life, will all be Privy Soal who eloped to Grotna conserved as a refugo. and woro married there.
This is highly desirable because! The romance of a woman, her the expansion of population in daughter, and granddaughter, the United States is rapidly and who all ran away with to Gretna relentlessly leading to the com- is also told by Mr. May,
ploto extermination of wild life, The woman was the daughter Only such movements as this of Mr. Child, the bankor. Sho one, backed by the United States ran away with the Earl of West government, can save parts of the morland, only to be left out of once-abundant wild life of the her father's will in favour of bor country for future generations. daughter. The daughter retaliat Naturalists call the Mississipi od on her grandfather by running valley the great American high- away with the Earl of Jersey, Way of the migratory birds. Many and the family tradition was of their feeding and resting places
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