DAYTON, a city of south-eastern Tennessee, U.S.A., 38m. N.N.E. of Chattanooga, at the foot of the Cumberland escarp ment; the county seat of Rhea county. It is served by the South ern railway. The population in 1930 was 2,006. In July 1925 the little country town was the scene of the famous "anti evolution" trial, in which John T. Scopes, a teacher of science in the high school, was found guilty of having violated a State law prohibiting the teaching, in the schools supported by the State, of any theories to the effect "that man is descended from the lower animals." Counsel for the defence included Clarence Dar row and Dudley Field Malone. The prosecution had the support of William Jennings Bryan, who died in Dayton a few days after the close of the trial. Mr. Scopes was fined $zoo, but the penalty was set aside by the State Supreme court on a technicality, with out any expression of opinion as to the constitutionality of the law. A Fundamentalist university on a hill at the back of the town is projected by Bryan's admirers as a memorial.