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EVOLUTION AND SPECIAL CEEATION CONTEASTED, 



WITH EEMARKS ON THEIE RESPECTIVE BEARINGS ON 



By W. F. KIUBY, 



Assistant in the Museum of the Royal Diiblin Society; Author of 



"A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidopter a,'' c]'c., <]'c. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction. 



Ancient and Modern Views of Nature. 

 Theory of Direct Creation. 

 Evolution in Astronomy and Philology. 

 Earlier Theories connected "ivith Evolu- 

 tion. 

 Darwin and his Critics. 

 UseaadDisuse,Reversion,and Hybridism. 

 Homology. 



Embryology. 



Geographical Distribution. 

 Variation under Domestication. 

 Origin of Life on the Earth. 

 Development of Life on the Earth. 

 The Destructive Agencies of Nature. 

 Pi-ogress of Man. 

 Harmonj^ of Nature. 

 Summarj^ and Conclusion. 



FOREIGN LEPIDOPTEEA, &c. 



EUROPEAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



A Price List, including all obtainable rave and reputed British Species, 

 forwarded on application. 



EXOTIC LEPmOPTERA. 



A choice Series always in stock, small parcels of which will be forwarded 

 for selection, or on approval, to known (or referred) Correspondents. 

 Lists of the principal Species can also be had from time to time. 



1^^.— Collectors of Exotic Butterflies and Moths are invited to 

 fur7iish Lists of their desiderata, V)hich will le supplied as oppor- 

 tunity offers at moderate cost. 



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