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INDEX 



Principles, 123 ; first sketch of 

 1842, enlarged draft of 1844, 

 commencement of great treatise 

 on Evolution in 1856, inter- 

 ruption by arrival of Wallace's 

 papers, 128, 129 ; the 'Abstract ' 

 or Origin of Species com- 

 menced, 130 ; finished, 131 ; 

 reception of, 132-139; influ- 

 ence of, 1, 159 



OSBOBN, H. F., his From the 

 Greeks to Darwin, 16; on 

 Lamarck, 87 



PALEY, his influence on Darwin, 

 108 



PHILLIPS, JOHN, his attitude to- 

 wards I/yell's views, 30, 71 



Philosophers, on Evolution, 16, 

 82 



PLAYFAIB, JOHN, his Illustrations 

 of the Huttonian Theory, 29 ; 

 explains the causes of Hutton's 

 failure, 30 



' Plutonism,' * Vulcanism,' or 

 'Huttonism,' 18 



Poets and Evolution, 16 



PBESTWICH, Sir J., opposition to 

 Lyell's views, 72 



PBEVOST, CONSTANT, aid to Lyell, 

 50 ; opposition to Cuvier, 50 



PRIESTLEY, persecution of, 21, 69 



Principles of Geology, first idea 

 of, 55; early draft sent to 

 publisher in 1827, 56 ; with- 

 drawn and rewritten in 1830, 

 56 ; issue of first volume, 63 ; 

 success, 64 ; review by Scrope, 

 60-62 ; decision to confine 

 Vol. n. to Organic Evolution, 

 65 ; 3rd volume, classification 

 of Tertiaries and Metamorphio 



theory, 66 ; later editions, 66 ; 

 Elements, Manual &ud Student's 

 elements, 67 ; success of work, 

 67 ; Darwin's opinion on, 67 ; 

 of Huxley, 67, 80, 81 ; Wallace 

 on, 79 ; criticisms of, 68, 69, 

 70,71 



PYTHAGOBAS, his evolutionary 

 ideas, 16 



Quarterly Review, articles by 

 Lyell, 56, 89; by Scrope, 60, 

 62 



Reviews, of the Principles by 

 Scrope, 56, 89 ; by Whewell, 22, 

 53 ; of the Origin by Huxley, 

 136, 137 



SOBOPE, G. POULETT, education, 

 34 ; travels, 34 ; work in 

 Auvergne, 35 ; in Italy, 35 ; 

 delay in publishing, 35 ; work 

 on volcanoes, 36; his just views 

 on Evolution, 37-39 ; cause of 

 want of recognition of his 

 work, 39, 40 ; devotion to poli- 

 tics, 40 ; reviews of Principles, 

 41, 61 ; correspondence with 

 and influence on Lyell, 50, 61 ; 

 his differences of opinion from 

 Lyell, 62, 63, 151; effects of his 

 review, 64 



SEDGWICK, A., advocates Catas- 

 trophism, 27, 28; opposition 

 to Hutton, influence on Scrope, 

 34 ; on Darwin, 98 ; opposition 

 to Lyell, 83 ; weakening of op- 

 position to, 58 ; on Principles, 

 70, 71 ; dislike to Evolution, 

 83 



