The notorious Tennessee trial of 1925, nick-named the "monkey trial,"
at which Mr. Scopes, a school teacher, was fined a hundred dollars for introducing the Darwinian theory into one of his lessons,' has come on appeal before the Supreme Court of Tennessee. The Supreme Court has not gone so far as to say that the almost incredible Tennessee law against the teaching of evolution is unconstitutional, but it has found that the Judge at the Dayton trial exceeded his powers." The maximum fine which the Judge could inflict upon Mr. Scopes was fifty dollars, unless a jury was sitting ; and at Dayton there was no jury. Presumably Mr. Scopes will have the fine or part of it remitted. But this will not by any means satisfy those who are moving against the Tennessee law. The case apparently will he fought up to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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