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Show Philadelphia, Dec. 30. That tho earth Is about v10,Q,00O',OOO years old is ono of tho deductions of Georgo F. Declcor, of (ho United States geOlOgl-cal geOlOgl-cal survey, presented In a paper read last night at a mooting of tho Geological Geologi-cal Society of America, which la mooting here In connection with tho annual convention of tho American Association for tho Adxnncoment of Science Itndlal activity Is confined to a relatively thin zono In tho upper crust of tho earth, ho declared. Tho missing link between man nnd his npo Hko ancestors has been Identified Iden-tified In thu pithecanthropus orectus, whoso skull found In Javn showed all tho characteristics Intermediate between be-tween man nnd ape, according to James II . McGregor, nssoclato pro fossor of zoology at Columbia university, univer-sity, who presentel a series of restorations res-torations of skulls and reproductions of tho appoaranco of prlmittvo men. Henry F. Osborn, also of Columbia, delivered an address on tho migration of human types during the old stono ngo In Europo, and traced son oral distinct species of mnn, which ho Bald had disappeared utterly from tho earth. , Iron ore deposits In Newfoundland nro how known to ho tho result df plant activity, according to Professor Gilbert Van Ingen, of Princeton university. uni-versity. , Arthur P. Coleman of Toronto, Canada, was elected president of tho goo'oglcal society and E. O. Ulrlch, Washington, was chosen president of tho Paleontologlcal society. |