APPENDIX C 



RECENT BIOLOGY 1 



1. Annee biologique : Comptes rendus annuels des travaux de bi- 

 ologie generate. YVES DELAGE. Premiere annexe, 1895. Paris, 

 Reinwald. 1897. pp. xlv + 732. 



2. Essays. G. J. ROMANES. Edited by C. LL. MORGAN. Lon- 

 don and New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 1897. pp. 



253- 



3. Darwin and after Darwin, III. Isolation and Physiological 



Selection. G. J. ROMANES. Edited by C. LL. MORGAN. Chi- 

 cago, Open Court Pub. Co. 1897. pp. viii -f- 178. 



I. 



IN this handsome volume (i) Professor Delage begins the 

 annual issue of a summary of biological progress ; a work which 

 was well begun in his earlier volume on Heredity, etc. In 

 the preface to this volume we read : " To those who have read 

 the volume on Heredity and the Great Problems of Biology this 

 new annual will not cause surprise. It is the natural sequel 

 to that work. . . . The earlier work may be considered as a 

 first volume, serving the purpose of setting the questions, defin- 

 ing the problems, tracing the outlines, establishing the categories, 

 and resuming the results, up to 1895, from which date this peri- 

 odical takes up all the topics and carries them on from year to 

 year." The reader of the Grands Problemes will have, there- 

 fore, a fair idea of the divisions, headings, etc., of this new pub- 

 lication. The way in which the general purpose of the editor 

 and his contributors is carried out in this first volume calls for 



1 From The Psychological Review, Vol. V., No. 2, March, 1898. 



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