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Show "AN ATTRACTION PARTICLE." Interesting Disclosures Mads at the Co ventlon of the British Association. The annual disclosure of the latest discoveries in various branches of science being made at the convention of tha British association, Oxford, is an interesting inter-esting budget Lord Salisbury's address at the opening of the conference attracts at-tracts widespread attention. He proclaimed pro-claimed himself a scientifin nmrtrt but the most remarkable feature of hi. paper was his outlining of the marvels of unsolved problems to which modern science is now devoting itself. He paid a sympathetic tribute to Darwin's great work, but refused to acknowledge the jellyfish as Ms ancestor on any evidence yet offered. Ho attacked Weissmann'a theory of natural selection in evolution and affirmed that the present day has brought a return to the belief that creative crea-tive design was supreme. It has been in these meetings of the eeveral divisions of the convention that the latest discoveries and theories have been presented. A year ago the biologists, biolo-gists, who Lud believed for years that they were on the point of solving the mystery of life, acknowledged them selves baffled. Now Professor Schaefer, president of the section of physiology, announces the discovery in each tiny animal cell containing life of what h terms "an attraction particle. " It should be remembered that when the biologists discovered the cell principle of life they thought it impossible to subdivide these infinitely small atnma hnt fVia tv,,'. scope has shown the, existence of this small particle in each ceR, which is itself a structure sui generis, having a .lefinite existence and a definite functioi its own. It is almost as minute an object as it is possible to conceive. In of the size of a pin point Yet this almost al-most infinitely smaU object exerts an extraordinary influence over the whole cell, which may be many thousand times its size. It initiates and directs those processes which restlt in the multiplication multipli-cation of cells, and indirectly therefore it is concerned in directing the general growth of the individual and ultimately ultimate-ly the propagation of species. It is ehown, then, that the principle of life is contained in a particle 1,000 times smaller than the smallest object which the best microscopes of a few years ago were able to perceive, and the lates name for the unsolved mystery of Rfe is "an attraction particle. New Yoik JBun's Londos Ictta At Wingen, In New South Wales, about 200 miles from Sydney, is a burning burn-ing mountain, one of the most remarkable remark-able sights to be seen in Australia. It is 1, 820 feet in height and is supposed to be a large coal seam which has in some unaccountable way become ignited and has been burning for many years, certainly cer-tainly long before the advent of the white man in this portion of the colony. The course of the fire can be traced a considerable distance by the numerous depressions or chasms occasioned by the falling in of .the ground from beneath which. the coal has been consumed. Smoke is continually issuing from the Bides of the mountain, and in the vicinity vicin-ity of these openings the surface is hot and has a dry, parched appearance, while sticks thrust into these opening are very readily ignited. |