DAEWINIANISM. 



PART I. 

 THE WOKKMEN. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



" RUDGE immortalised the name of Darwin through 

 introduction to the Flora of the genus Darwinia" 



To read, in the Conversations - Lexicon, date, 1844, 

 article, " Darwin (Erasmus)," these words nowadays, is 

 to be surprised by a variety of reflections by this 

 reflection among others, that it would be the enthusiastic 

 Rudge himself who, were he in case to read, would 

 probably be the most surprised surprised to find that, 

 as facts are, it is Rudge (himself), not Darwin, he has 

 well, " immortalised ! " Of course, in 1893, it is Charles, 

 not Erasmus, we think of as having immortalised the 

 name Darwin ; but, to speak extravagantly, had there- 

 been no Charles, would not the ascription to Rudge of 

 immortalising the name through a new genus in the 

 Flora would not this ascription to Rudge have still 

 been relevant down, on the whole, to 1879 ? It was in 



