The Complete Scopes Trial Transcript by Fred Foote

Author:Fred Foote
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: History, Court Records, Professional & Technical, Rules & Procedures, Social History, Law, Procedures & Litigation, Historical Study & Educational Resources
Published: 2012-01-16T06:00:00+00:00

Must Be More Than 35,000 Sponges

I am satisfied from some I have seen there must be more than 35,000 sponges.

(Laughter in the courtroom.)

Mr. Bryan—And then we run down to the insects, 360,000 insects. Two-thirds of all the species of all the animal world are insects. And sometimes, in the summer time we feel that we become intimately acquainted with them—a large percentage of the species are mollusks and fishes. Now, we are getting up near our kinfolks, 13,000 fishes. Then there are the amphibia. I don’t know whether they have not yet decided to come out, or have almost decided to go back.

(Laughter in the courtroom.)

But they seem to be somewhat at home in both elements. And then we have the reptiles, 3,500; and then we have 13,000 birds. Strange that this should be exactly the same as the number of fishes, round numbers. And then we have mammals, 3,500, and there is a little circle and man is in the circle, find him, find man.

[175] There is that book! There is the book they were teaching your children that man was a mammal and so indistinguishable among the mammals that they leave him there with thirty-four hundred and ninety-nine other mammals.

(Laughter and applause.)

Including elephants?

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