18 OCTOBER 1890, Page 15

MR. P. H. GOSSE'S GEOLOGICAL THEORY.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.?'] SIR,—When your reviewer asks if it is Mr. P. H. Gosse who suggested that Satan laid down the strata, &c., he is surely misrepresenting that very ingenious and excellent man, whose theory really was, that as Adam, created full-grown, yet to an observer would have warranted the belief in his having passed through all the stages of growth, so this earth was created with all the strata, fossils, &c., in situ,—an amazing suggestion certainly, but not what your reviewer credits him