A Few Remarks upon ‘Evolution.’ 
I not unfrequently see it affirmed that persons who 
have turned their attention to Natural History, are being 
generally converted to the Darwinian theory of develop- 
ment of all the living creatures of this planet from a 
common Ancestor ‘ protoplasm,’ I greatly doubt this. 
Those who have ventured to differ from that view 
are thus ‘scouted,’ ‘ Zhe Zoologist, the Paleontologist, 
the Embryologist,... are all Darwinian to a man, and 
they scout the ‘lazy yawning drone’ who eats of their honey 
buzzing the while dissatisfaction at their work and their 
song.” (Mammalian descent by Professor Parker, page 5). 
This Darwinian taint has greatly destroyed the ex- 
ceeding pleasure derived formerly from books on Natural 
History; not only for serzous reasons ; but through the 
manifest straining of facts to serve one purpose. 
Per contra, Darwin, in his ‘Origin of Species,’ cor- 
rected to 1872, published 1884, speaking of the difficulties 
held by those thus ‘scouted’ says (page 289) they are 
“undoubtedly of the most serious nature, we see this in the 
factthat the most eminent Palaontologists, namely, Cuvier, 
Agassiz, Barraude, FPictet, Falconer, E. Forbes, &c., 
and allour greatest Geologists, as Lyell, Murchison, 
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