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THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. 



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new relations. The objection as to the sudden abortion of 

 rudimentary organs may be similarly met. 



Prof. Huxley seems now disposed to accept the, at least 

 occasional, intervention of sudden and considerable varia- 

 tions. In his review of Prof. KollikerV 3 criticisms, he 



MUCH EXLAEGBD HORIZONTAL SECTION OP THE TOOTH OF A LABTRINTHODON. 



himself says, 23 "We greatly suspect that she" (i.e., Na- 

 ture) " does make considerable jumps in the way of varia- 

 tion now and then, and that these saltations give rise to 



22 " frber die Darwin'sche Schopfungstheorie : " ein Vortrag, von 

 Kolliker; Leipzig, 1864. See " Lay Sermons," p. 342. 



