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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The change has come since the appearance of "The Origin of Species" 

 in 1859, and ontside of the scientific centers at Philadelphia, Boston, 

 Washington, New Haven and New York, it has seemed to come slowly; 

 but the effect has been cumulative, and to-day thinkers in all lines accept 

 the fact of evolution. In the first ten years after 1859, many of the older 

 scientists ignored or fought the doctrine bitteriv. Even Agassiz remained 



FRONT VIEW OF DARWIN BUST. 



on the side of the creation of each species as we find it. Asa (iray, how- 

 ever, who knew Darwin personally and who had published a review of 

 "The Origin of Species" before a copy reached America, stood firmly 

 not only for the theory of evolution, but also for that which Darwinism 

 signifies, the theory of Natural Selection as the working process of evolu- 



