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tion. He inspired the youiif^'er men in the Boston scientifie center, 

 Shaler, Verrill, Packard, Morse, Hyatt, Allen and Scndder, and throngh 

 their inflnence enthnsiasni for Darwinism grew nntil a climax was 

 reached in 187(3. Since that date every biological worker in the conntry 

 has fonnd his research an item to strengthen belief in evohition, and 



ARWIN BUST. 



also, it is true, often to expose some weakness or mend some Haw in the 

 doctrine of Natural Selection. 



Darwin, however, did not consider his work faultless, final or com- 

 plete. In his day the general theory of evolution was already well 

 established in many scientists' minds, due to the work of anatomists 

 such as Lamarck and Cuvier. Darwin marshalled the facts that the 



