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List of Contributors to the Fauci in aid of Professor F. E. Schalzes 

 ' Nomenclator animalittm generuin et suhyemruni.' 



Adldn, E., F.E.S. 

 Ander.5011, Tempest, D.Sc. 

 Avebury, Rt. Hon. Lord. 



Bridgman, F. J. 



JkiUen, The Rev. R. Asliington. 



Burr, Malculm, D.Sc. 



Carpenter, Prof. G. 11. 

 Crisp, Sir Frank, Bart. 



Eliot, Sir Cliarles. 



P'rancis, William. 



Godman, F. DuCaue, D.C.L. 



Harvie-Brown, J. A., LL.D. 

 Hopkinson, John. 

 Iloyle, Dr. W. E. 



Knipe, H. R., J.P., LL.B. 



Lister, J. J., M.A. 



Melvill, J. Cosmo, D.Sc. 



Michiiel, A. D. 



Moncktou, IL W. 



Morice, The Rov. F. D., M.A., 



P.K.S. 

 Murray, Sir John, K.C.B 



Parkin, Thomas. 

 Pertz, Miss D. F. M. 

 Pickard-Cambridge, The Rev. O., 



F.R.S. 

 Poulton, Prof. E. B. 



Rothschild, Hon. N. C. 

 Rothschild, Hon. Walter. 



Scharff, Dr. R. F. 

 Stebbing, Miss G. 

 Stebbing, The Rev. T. R. R, 

 Stebbing, W. P. D. 

 Strahau, Aubrey, F.R.S. 



Thompson, Prof. D'Arcy W. 



Yallentin, Rupert. 



Walker, A. O. 



ABSTEACTS. 



On the Origin of Species. By Dr. John P. Lotst. 



(Communicated by Dr. Otto Stapf, F.K.S., Sec.L.S.) 



[Read 19tli February, 1914.] 



Now that Meiidelisiii has been at work for wellnigli fourteen 

 years, it seems to me that the time has come to api)ly it to 

 Darwinian Evolution. The theory for which I beg your attention 

 is, it seems to me, but the'logical consequence of Mendelism. I will, 

 in the short time at my disposal, not be able to give more than a 

 sketch of it. Yet in this short time I shall frequently have to 

 dissent from the views of others. This, of course, does not in the 

 least imply any disrespect for the persons from whose views I 

 dissent. That I lay special stress on this is because I differ on some 

 important points from the views of one whom I honour perhaps 

 above any other, Charles Darwin, for whom I shall always have the 

 greatest respect as a man, as an investigator, and as an exponent 

 of deductions in strict accordance with the knowledge at his 



