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at point upon the foundation where they ought to rest. But when 
M. Jordan talks about Pantheism as the result of Darwinism, he, in 
our opinion, spoils his preface. It is just as easy for one side as the 
other in the species controversy to make imputations of this kind, and 
such never do any good, and often a great deal of harm. It is no 
inevitable consequence that a man who believes that the original 
specifie types have been few in number, and that the forms we now 
see have been modified from them through long ages, should not be as 
sincere and orthodox a Christian as the man who believes that the 
original specific types have been many, and that each has remained as 
it was when created up to the present time without material change. 
We object utterly to the introduction of theology into the argument. 
Such imputations can only create bitterness of feeling, which is the 
very thing of all others most likely to prevent the calm investigation 
of facts. a 
We do not intend, upon the present occasion, to discuss either the 
general bearing upon the species question of M. Jordan’s labours, or 
to pass any opinion upon the points of detail here brought before our 
notice. We are none of us in a position, at the present time, to 
judge what the value of his work really is, or what amount of truth the 
central idea of his school contains. It is time and work— work in the 
peculiar way of which he has set so industrious an example, the care- 
ful study of living plants by means of cultivation—that must be the test 
of these. _ And a notice of this character is not the right place for a | 
criticism on points of detail, because that criticism ought always to 
have for its foundation statements resting upon some distinct personal 
authority. 
The portion of the work which is contained in this issue only goes 
through three Natural Orders— Ranunculacee, Papaveracee, and Oruci- 
fere. We understand that it is intended that plates illustrative of the 
letterpress should ultimately be published, but there are none here, and 
we do not see the promise of any. With very rare exception, only 
forms proposed as species by M. Jordan himself are described, but no 
uniform rule seems to be followed with regard to the species described 
in his former works. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not 
described here over again. The diagnoses are in Latin, the rest of 
the book of course in French. The following are the British species 
which are divided, or to which those proposed are nearly allied :— 
