Miscellanies Historical And Biographical Being a Second Series of Essays Lec
Miscellanies Historical And Biographical Being a Second Series of Essays Lec
William Sidney Gibson
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Amongst the signs which preceded that particular gale, were great electric or magnetic storms in the atmosphere. The gallant admiral referred to the recent ex- traordinary storm near Calne, which transcended the supposed feats of the spiritualists with tables, for it lifted a broad-Avheeled waggon from the road over a hcd^e into the next field; and he explained in detail the arrangement by which, under government authority, warning of storms will be communicated by telegraph from one part of th...e country to another, and the mode in which the signals will be visibly repeated along the coast, by which means, it is hoped, the shipwrecks that too often strew our coasts may be diminished. In the " Zoology and Botany" section a crowded audience was attracted, and a lively debate was led to, by a paper in which the startling theories of Mr. Darwin, as to the development of species by what he calls " natural selection, " came into discussion. It was a paper by a Dr. Draper of New York, " On the Intellectual Development of Europe;" and the author, referring to the views of Mr.
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