The Battle Against Evolution in America. — The “Literary Digest,” quoting from the “Evening Sun” (Baltimore), gives the following summary of the contest being waged against evolution in America:—”The Darwinian hypothesis has been outlawed by the Atlanta Board of Education, and the California State Board of Education has decreed that it can be taught only as a theory. Local boards in California, that at Long Beach, for example, have ruled that this prohibition extends even to private conversations between teacher and pupil. In Texas the State Text-Book Commission has ordered text-books used in tax-supported schools to be purged of all references to evolution. A petition from students at the University of Louisiana for a course in evolution was gallantly refused by the University authorities. Books on scientific subjects have been publicly burned within the past year in New Jersey, Mississippi and Kansas. Ground has been broken at Dayton, Tennessee, for the Fundamental University there. Several large religious conventions have lately adopted resolutions upholding the Biblical story of the Creation. Dr Riley, one of the most active of the Fundamentalist leaders, is carrying on a campaign for anti-evolution legislation in Minnesota.”