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as "an admirable and perfectly legitimate principle" 

 (p. 371). A more pronounced opponent of selection, 

 of any kind, as a principle creating species, is the Rev. 

 Mr. Henslow, 1 whose views we shall discuss later, in 

 Division VII. of this Appendix. 



Finally, must be mentioned the name of Th. Eimer, 

 as that of a pronounced and bitter enemy of the theory 

 of selection. I shall leave it to others to decide 

 whether he can properly be called an "opponent" of 

 the principle, in the scientific acceptance of the word. 

 I can see in the blind railings of the Tubingen Pro- 

 fessor nothing but a reiteration of the same unproved 

 assertions, mingled with loud praises of his own 

 doughty performances and captious onslaughts on 

 every one who does not value them as h ; ghly as their 

 originator. 2 



The lack of confidence latterly placed in the theory 

 of selection even by professed adherents of the doc- 

 trine, is well shown by such remarks as the following 



1 Henslow, The Origin of Species Without the Aid of 

 Natural Selection, A Reply to Wallace. 1894. 



2 If any one should deem these words too severe, let him 

 read the sarcastic passages in which Eimer has dispatched the 

 late unfortunate Eric Haase who had been presumptuous 

 enough to oppose the Tubingen Professor's deliverances on 

 certain points. Haase, as we all know, fell a victim to the 

 climate of the tropics, shortly after resigning the post of 

 Director of the natural science collections in Bangkok, in 

 order to return to Germany and to work out the fruits of his 

 tropical sojourn. The unfortunate end of this accomplished 

 man who had rendered important services to science had no 

 effect in mollifying the resentment of Herr Eimer at the op- 

 position which his views had encountered ; and in twenty 

 printed pages he takes him to task in the most personal and 

 rancorous manner for this affront, remarking at the close: 

 "In the meantime Herr Haase has died. Nevertheless I owe 



