A SUN IN FLAMES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"]
Snt,—Allow me to thank you for the insertion of my letter of the 20th ult., which sought to account for the climatic conditions under which life formerly existed in our present frozen and temperate latitudes, and to ask the like favour in reply to Mr. Gilbert's counter-views.
I readily assent to his position of the earth's gradually cooling as an acknowledged fact, but his application of it is not, I believe, generally accepted by geologists. I submit, moreover, that is not in accord, if indeed it be not inconsistent with another fact, un- doubtedly established, viz., the past changes and alternations of climate, considerable in degree, and extending over large areas Of our globe ; whilst the solution I proposed contemplates only an intermittent cause, and is at least in conformity with such
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