Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Notes—Page 184 In a recent Lecture on the Sun, Sir. W.Thomson says, it cannot have ex- isted for more than twenty millions of years. “ Geologists and Biologists, he says, cling to vastly longer periods; but the physicist treating it as a dynamic question,...could come to no other conclusion materially different.”—which agrees with the authors calculation made from different data, before the lecture was published; and almost annihilates Mr. Darwin’s theory, that “ One hundred and forty millions of years would be insufficient for the development of the Cambrian forms alone! —Page 132 In confirmation of the antiquity of mankind, Dr. H. Hicks discovered, last year, a flint implement in Cae Gwyn cave, of pre- glacial age, probably two hundred and forty thousand years old. —Page 34 The keeper of a menagerie, says lions at times, abandon their young, probably their milk fails. In a Return of the number of beasts of prey, killed in Algeria for the reward offered by Government; there is only about, one lion to every ten hyaenas, and a hundred jackalls.