Columbia University Biological Series. 



EDITED BY 



HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, 



Da Costa Professor of Biology in Columbia College, 



This series is founded upon a course of popular University 

 lectures given during the winter of 1892-3, in connection with 

 the opening of the new department of Biology in Columbia 

 Colleo-e. The lectures are in a measure consecutive in charac- 

 ter, illustrating phases in the discovery and application of the 

 theory of Evolution. Thus the first course outlined the de- 

 velopment of the Descent theory; the second, the application 

 of this theory to the problem of the ancestry of the Vertebrates, 

 largely based upon embryological data; the third, the applica- 

 tion of the Descent theory to the interpretation of the structure 

 and phylogeny of the Fishes or lowest Vertebrates, chiefly based 

 upon comparative anatomy ; the fourth, upon the problems of 

 individual development and Inheritance, chiefly based upon the 

 structure and functions of the cell. 



Since their original delivery the lectures have been carefully 

 rewritten and illustrated so as to adapt them to the use of Col- 

 lege and University students and of general readers. The vol- 

 umes as at present arranged for include: 



I. From the Greeks to Darwin. By Henet Fairfield 



OSBORN. 



II. Amphioxus and tlie Ancestry of the Yertebrates. 



By Arthur Willet, 



III. Fishes, Living and Fossil. By Bashford Deais^. 



IV. The Cell in Development and Inheritance. By 



Edmund B. Wilson. 



Two other volumes are in preparation. 



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