In a week or two, the Bishop of Winchester relinguishes Farnham Custle, which, after 700 years, ceases to be the residence of diocesan Bishops. The division of Win-Jchester and the creation of Guildford and Portsmouth dioceses have necessitated modern arrangements, and the ancient and costly castle is to be transformed into a house for conferences and retreats, It is to! become a Swanwick without interfering with its structure or chological interests and between £20,000 and £30,000 will be expend-fed in effecting this purpose. An. anonymous donor has promised £20, }000 towards the first five years' maintenance of the castle under these modern conditions. To the great satisfaction of Churchmen, ko stipulated that Bishop Randolph, formerly Suffragan Bishop of Guildford, should become its warder Farnham Castle possesses one of the loveliest views in Surrey. The building itself can claim associa. tions with many great Bishops. Andrew's cell still is intact. Within living memory, Bishop" Thorold! spent a fortune on the castle ard laid down over a mile of carpets In the time of the present Archti shop of Canterbury (when Bishop of Winchester) the birds came into the dining room and picked up the crumbs at the breakfast table, What Science Tells Un 'The British Association has finish-fed its meeting in Leeds, and it has discussed points of unusual interest, Sir Arthur Keith, the Presiden', vindicated Darwin's' theory of the [descent of man from the anthropoid apes. He considers that Darwin was right, and declares that we now Jare able to fill in many pages which Darwin had perforce to leave blank, Jand although it has been found neces. [sury to alter details in his narrative, Sir Arthur asserts that the funda: mentals of Darwin's outline of the history of man remain unshaken, The evidence of man's evolution' from an ape-like being, obtained from a study of fossil remains, is [definite and irrefutable, but the pro-Jeess has been infinitely more complex than was suspected in Darwin's time, All the evidence at our dis-Posal supports the conclusion thet} /man has arisen from an anthropoid Jape not higher in the Zoologies1 scale than a chimpanzee. The brains of man and anthropoid are Jatinost identical, and it is question-fable as to whether the day will ever Jcome when it can be explained why' the brain of man has made such Trade Improving Speaking at Kelso, before 20,000 people, Mr. Churchill said that British industry once more was in full swing, and the work of repairing, the damage caused by the general strike and mining stoppage was! making appreciable headway. The finances of the country, though mue' injured, had stood the strain, and it' was' reasonable to believe " that they would come through the cot sequences of the industrial troubles of last year, without having to impose any of the—£40,000,000 direct taxation remitted by the Government in 1925, or the £20,000,- 000 remitted by Mr. Snowden in 1924, Inquiries bear out Mr, Charchil's faster tion, though the cotton trade in a bad way. On Tuesday, there' was a meeting at Manchester, when Mr. J.B. Keynes advised Lancashire to summon an unofficial Royal Commission on the state of the industry. Such a Commission should have as its first task the discovery of just what the costs were at every stage of production, ani to compare them with the corresponding costs abroad, and then with what they were before the war. iereat progress whilst that of his cousin, the gorilla, has fallen 0 far One of the most interesting and attractive addresses was that given by Dr. G. P, Bidder, the noted zoologist, who suggested that the reason for the modern love of laze musie might be found protoplasm 10,000 million genera tions ago in the primeval oceans of the world. Only now, because we are land animals and must not grow. any bigger for fear that our limbs should snap, the rhythm, or the chemical change, is readjusted, but the adjustment is not perfect, and }we lose little on each beat, 40] that, as we grew older, our muscles shrink, our nerves shrink, our cart ages shrink, and our brains shrink, Jand we become what other peopl call senile, and at length we die, 2 [thing which none of our flagellate Jancestors ever did, Incidentally, Dr. Bidder believes that to that came metabolic rhythm inherited from the flagellates we owe our sense of time. "So our appreciation of dancing, poetry, and music shows that are still flagellates at heart.
'Mr. R. N, Radmose Brown, the resident of the geography' sec-when the Arctic regions wi populated by colonists on fur farms jor producing reindeer meat for the }world as a substitute for beef and mutton. Tt will, however, be many years before the housewife will be able to go to the butcher and order sirloin of caribou or the best end of a neck of reindeer, but, as the world population multiplies and {food production has to be increased, [the lands that are not fit for cereal growth will command attention by their possibilities for pasturage, Professor F. G, Parsons, Professor of Anatomy in the University fof London, described the Englishman of the future, Deducing from changes observed in recent years, hie said ho was left with the belief that the Englishman of the fotui is making for an average height fof 5 ft. 9 in, and the women for or 5 ft. 7 in, that light eyes and some per cent. dark; that there are igns whatever thet the hair has darkened during the last 60 years, though there are signs, which perhaps need discounting, that the hair lighter than it was 60 years ago; that the head shape is showing unmistakable signs of an increase of Its proportional length; that this increase of proportional height is Jereater than has been found in any of the stocks from which the modern Englishynan is devived.. An inter~ esting fact which emerges from the rofersor's experiments is that the English rapidly are growing. table
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