Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Transport, Engineering, Darwinism, Evolution, Descent

    Responds to the concern of a correspondent in The Times that a road had been built from 'churchyard mould, bones and fragments of coffins' rather than from macadam. Notes that Charles R Darwin might suggest that 'as far as the bones are concerned, that species of M'Adam should be called M'Ape'.