rangement economy of nature. The heat term by which we were visited a fortnig ago was caused by an accumulation mothers-in-law who had to remain in t sphere of our planet until accommodatic would be provided for them in the place their destination.

Sometimes it is a difficult task to inves gate the intentions of inscrutable wisdor for instance, the use of the heads of son of our City Fathers. Their heads a neither useful nor ornamental; they are n made for brainwork. We can prove, by post mortem, to their owners' own satisfa tion that their heads are empty. But th serve a higher purpose; they keep the ne tie in its proper position.

The coast of California has pass through violent convulsions and cataclysm Since the glacial period the coast has be submerged and raised to Alpine elevatio There is no mining stock that has pass through such vicissitudes of ups and dow as the hills and plains of California.

valves and remains of marine crustaceans have been found on the tops of the Sierras, and an empty sardine-box has been discovered by me in the picturesque wildernesses of Second-Street cut, which may be inspected at the rooms of our Academy of Sciences.

To protect us against further disturbances of level, against tidal waves and sudden upheavals, inscrutable wisdom of Divine Providence has created Captain Kenzel, who keeps the coast line of the Pacific in its present position.

Now, everything would be smooth and Divine Providence all right if it were not for the California Legislature that runs a biennial opposition line to inscrutable wisdom. But even with this defect, this world is a good world, and even our most gracious Sire, with the assistance of all the members of the Sideboard Committee, could not have created a better one.

THE source of all organic life is the cell. From the simple cell, which constitutes the monad in the animal kingdom and the bacillus in the series of vegetable developments, branch off innumerable evolutionary series of types.

The system of cellular development may be brought under three heads:

Ist. The development in one line: In this manner originates the necklace, bracelet, and the watch-chain.

2d. The cellular development in a plain In this way is formed the caviar sandwich.

All other organisms are the product of cubic development.

The enormous variety of organic types is not the product of a short period; it is

the result of ages spent in natural selection and other rational enjoyments.

The change of types which I am here to demonstrate begins in the post-pliocene age. The post-pliocene age we divide first in the age of stone implements, which is followed by the age of brass. In this age mankind got very degenerate in morals, so that, for the sake of their transgressions, a Board of Supervisors was set over them. No sooner was this board in power, when an extension was proposed of the Libyan and Arabian desert and passed. Then the Mississippi River was forced to run through the FifthStreet sewer, which sewer was repaired in the middle of the rainy season. This caused a great flood, and the term antediluvian, which we use in the Academy of Sciences, refers to the time before that event. The flood caused the age of brass, after which followed the age of iron, and at present we are in the middle of the age of steel.

After this explanation, the changes which have taken place in the structure of some