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of North 



f Certain New Species of Plants, col- 

 Japan, with Relations of the Japanese 



reasoning, shows plainly his ideas on the theory of distribution, 



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alist ; Government Reports ; Botanical Gazette ; in the BUL- 

 LETIN, beside Hooker's Journal of Botany and the Journal of the 

 Linnatan Society, 



Among them may be mentioned accounts of collections of 

 plants made in 1846 by Fendler, in New Mexico; in 1849 by 

 Chas. Wright, near the Texan boundary of the U. S. ; in 1 851 

 and 1852 by Geo. Thurber, botanist to the Mexican Boundary 

 Survey; and in 1845-6 and 1847-8 by Dr. F. Lindheimer, in 

 Western Texas, in which Dr. Gray was aided by Dr. Geo. Engel- 

 mann ; Forest Geography and Archaeology^ delivered in 1878 

 before the Boston Natural History Society, and published in the 

 American Journal ; Science aftd Religion, delivered before the ^ 

 "divinity school at Yale College, on the subject of the Darwinian 

 theory and published in book form in 1880, and many others. 

 His botany of the Wilkes expedition, published in 1854 with 

 one hundred handsome plates, is alone a monument to him. 



Dr. Gray's position in regard to Darwinism is a very inter- ^ 



esting one. A man of the deepest religious convictions, thor- 

 oughly imbued through his whole life with a firm and reverent j 

 belief in the Divine Creator of all things, he accepted scientifically 

 and in his own fashion, he said, the theory of Charles Darwin, 

 while philosophically he was a convinced theist. His paper on 



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lean Journal his Review of the Origm of Species by Chas. Dar- \ 



win, published in London in 1859. In this article he refers to 

 Robert Chambers as " The shadowy author of the Vestiges of 

 the Natural History of Creation," a work which appeared in 

 1844 and found little favor with Dr. Gray, who says, ** He would 

 explain the whole progressive evolution of Nature by virtue of 

 an inherent tendency to development, thus giving us a word in 

 place of a natural cause." Of Darwin's treatment of the ques- 

 tion he speaks with enthusiasm, though he thinks there are still 

 many important questions unsolved. He does not consider the 

 Survival of the Fittest in the Struggle for Life by Natural Selection 



