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egg in a certain other way, and it becomes a queen. If 

 the bees are in danger of becoming queenless they take 

 eggs which were in the way of being developed into 

 working bees, and change their food and cells, whereon 

 they develop into queens instead. How Mr. Darwin 

 could attribute the neutralization of the working bees 

 an act which is obviously one of abortion committed 

 by the body politic of the hive on a balance of consider- 

 ations to the action of what he calls " natural selec- 

 tion," and how, again, he could suppose that what he 

 was advancing had any but a confirmatory bearing 

 upon Lamarck's position, is incomprehensible, unless 

 the passage in question be taken as a mere slip. That 

 attention has been called to it is plain, for the words 

 "the well-known doctrine of Lamarck" have been 

 changed in later editions into " the well-known doctrine 

 of inherited habit as advanced by Lamarck,'* * but this 

 correction, though some apparent improvement on the 

 original text, does little indeed in comparison with 

 what is wanted. 



Mr. Darwin has since introduced a paragraph con- 

 cerning Lamarck into the " historical sketch," already 

 more than once referred to in these pages. In this he 

 summarises the theory which I am about to lay before 

 the reader, by saying that Lamarck "upheld the 

 doctrine that all species, including man, are descended 

 from other species." If Lamarck had been alive he 

 would probably have preferred to see Mr. Darwin write 

 that he upheld " the doctrine of descent with modifica- 

 tion as the explanation of all differentiations of struc- 



* Origin of Species,' ed. 1, p. 242 ; ed. 6, 1876, p. 233. 



