40 SPECIES NOT 



at iirst sight as unmistakably such." (On the 

 Variation of Species, page 8.) 



Again, "Whilst exploring the larren moor or 

 bleak upland heights, the botanist would as 

 assuredly look for a change in the outward 

 configuration of certain species which coloni/e 

 equally the rich meadows and teeming ravines, 

 as a geographical difference is a priori antici- 

 pated between the hard sturdy mountaineer and 

 the more enervated denizen of the plain. A 

 daisy gathered on the cultivated lawn has usually 

 attained a greater degree of perfection and 

 luxuriance than its companion from the sterile 

 heath; and the bramble which chokes up the 

 ditches of the sheltered hedge-row, wears a very 

 different ^aspect from its stunted brother of the 

 hills." (Op. Cit, page 9.) 



One more extract from Mr. Woollaston's valuable 

 work: "Still less would I willingly lend a 

 helping hand to that most mischievous of AogrMtB, 

 that they (local influences) are all important in 

 their operation, or, in other words, that they 

 possess within themselves the inherent power 

 (though it may not be invariably exercised) of 

 shaping out (provided a sufficient time be granted 

 them, and in conjunction with the advancing 

 requirements of the creatures themselves) those 

 permanent organic states to which the name of 

 speciea (in a true sense) is now applied. Such 

 a doctrine is in reality nothing more than the 

 t r< i u sanitation theory in all its unvarnished ful- 

 ness; and I do not see how it can be for a 



