Show A scientific prediction the story Is open often told 0 of f the great naturalist cubler that given a single bone he could reconstruct the animal to which t belonged that a somewhat similar similar law of organization runs through the various species sp ecles that torm form families in the animal kingdom Is indicated by a curious case of scientific prediction I 1 to which attention was called at a recent meeting of the biological coclet society in this country Uh while studying the minute animals called diatoms dia found that many species afre were distinguished by the number of rays they possessed but in the series of specimens that he had lie he could find bone having respectively ively at 27 29 al 31 37 39 30 41 42 44 45 40 46 48 find and 49 rays still lie he predicted that the rii missing issing species would some day turn up and lie was right tor for ten of them were afterward discovered although the remaining two have not yet been found |