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Lungfish are evolutionary survivors of the Devonian period (300-400 million years ago) when many forward-looking fish were experimenting with lungs. The lungfish are related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins like rudimentary limbs and which were thought by scientists to have been extinct for 50,000,000 years?until last year, when an astonishing live Coelacanth was brought up in a fishing net off the South African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming...
Geology 5 deals with the historical aspect of the subject. It does not lend itself to as interesting lectures as does Geology 4. Professor Mather's lively nature, however, makes even an account of the Devonian Age less musty than it might else be. The laboratory work is eminently uninspiring. The section men, on the whole with Professor Mather's teaching ability and personal magnetism, make little or no attempt to raise the study of topographical maps from a boring task...
...word of many meanings. It meant, as well as the parent gathering and the name of a lake, town and county in New York, a great many similar gatherings in all parts of the country. It meant a kind of rock, of that geologic period known as the Upper Devonian, outcroppings of which are plentiful at Chautauqua, N. Y. Most of all it meant the "Chautauqua idea" - Democracy's endeavor to educate itself, as now practiced by "well over 10,000,000 people" despite the mountains of odium that have been heaped upon it by intellectuals...
Fragments of two fossil trees discovered in the Devonian rocks at Gilboa, New York, by members of the Hugh Nawn Contracting Company of Roxbury, in the course of work on the New York City water-supply system, have been presented to the Geological Museum by Mr. Hugh Nawn '10, and will shortly be put on exhibition...
Gilboa is situated near Grand Gorge on the western slope of the Catskill Mountains. During the Devonian period of geological time, which immediately preceded the carboniferous period when the coal-measures were formed, the region where Gilboa now stands is thought to have been a swamp formed by the delta of a river flowing from what is now northeastern New England into a continental sea which covered most of New York, Pennsylvania, and the regions to the westward. The fossils, weighing several hundred pounds, are good examples of the tree-like Devonian vegetation found in this region...