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The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature

THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

Cambridge University Press London: Fetter Lane, E.C. C. F. Clay, Manager

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THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

by

JOHN W. JUDD C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.

Formerly Professor of Geology and Dean of the Royal College of Science

Cambridge: at the University Press 1910

Cambridge: Printed by John Clay, M.A. At the University Press

_With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design
on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest
known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521_

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. Introductory 1

II. Origin of the Idea of Evolution 5

III. The Development of the Idea of Evolution to the
Inorganic World 14

IV. The Triumph of Catastrophism over Evolution 20

V. The Revolt of Scrope and Lyell against Catastrophism 33

VI. _The Principles of Geology_ 55

VII. The Influence of Lyell's Works 68

VIII. Early Attempts to establish the Doctrine of Evolution
for the Organic World 82

IX. Darwin and Wallace: The Theory of Natural Selection 95

X. _The Origin of Species_ 115

XI. The Influence of Darwin's Works 136

XII. The Place of Lyell and Darwin in History 149

Notes 160

Index 165

PLATES

Charles Darwin _Frontispiece_

G. Poulett Scrope _to face p. 35_

Charles Lyell " " 41

Alfred R. Wallace " " 110