INDEX 



469 



teur, 288; Pouchet, 286; Spallan- 

 zani, 282; Tyndall, 290 



Steno, on fossils, 322 



Straus-Dtirckheim, his monograph, 

 96; illustrations from, 101 



Suarez, and the theory of special 

 creation, 410 



Swammerdam, his Bihlia Naturae, 

 73; illustrations from, 74, 76; 

 early interest in natural history, 

 68; life and works, 67-77; love 

 of minute anatomy, 70; method of 

 work, 71; personality, 67; por- 

 trait, 69 ; compared with Malpighi 

 and Leeuwenhoek, 87 



System, Linnaean, reform of, 130- 



138 



Systema Naturae, of Linnaeus, 121, 

 '127 



T 



Theory, the cell-, 242; the proto- 

 plasm, 272; of organic evolution, 

 345-368; of special creation, 410 



Tyndall, on spontaneous generation, 

 289; his apparatus for getting op- 

 tically pure air, 290 



Type-theory, of Cuvier, 132 



U 

 Uniformatism, and catastrophism, 



Variation, of animals, in a state of 

 nature, 382; origin of, according 

 to Weismann, 396 



Vesalius, and the overthrow of au- 

 thority, in science, 22-38; great 

 book of, 30; as court physician, 

 35; death, 36; force and inde- 

 pendence, 27; method of teaching 

 anatomy, 28, 29; opposition to, 



34; personality, 22, 27, 30; phys- 

 iognomy, 30; portrait, 29; pred- 

 ecessors of, 26; especial service 

 of, 37; sketches from his works, 



3 r > 33. 34, 49 

 Vicq d'Azyr, 146; portrait, 147 



Vinci, Leonardo da, and fossils, 322 



Virchow, and germinal continuity, 



225; in histology, 174; portrait, 



T 



Vries, Hugo de, his mutation theory, 

 403; portrait, 403; summary of 

 theory, 406 



W 



Wallace, and Darwin, 420; his ac- 

 count of the conditions under 

 which his theory originated, 427; 

 portrait, 428; writings, 427 



Weismann, the man, 399; quotation 

 from autobiography, 401; per- 

 sonal qualities, 399; portrait, 400; 

 his theory of the germ-plasm, 392- 

 399; summary of his theory, 405 



Whitney collection of fossil horses, 



355 

 Willoughby, his connection with 



Ray, 115 



Wolff, on cells, 240; his best work, 

 21 1 ; and epigenesis, 205; and 

 Haller, 211, 214; opposed by 

 Bonnet and Haller, 211; his pe- 

 riod in embryology, 205-214; per- 

 sonality, 214; plate from his 

 Theory of Generation, 209; the 

 Theoria Generationis, 210 



Wyman, Jeffries, on spontaneous 

 generation, 289 



Zittel, in palaeontology, 338; por- 

 trait, 339 



