From the Greeks to Darwin 



An Outline of the Development 

 of the Evolution Idea 



By HENRY FAIRFIELD 'OSBORN, LL.D., D.Sc. 



Second edition. Cloth, 8vo, 250 pages, $2.00 net 

 The Initial Volume of the " Columbia University Biological Series " 



The Anticipation and Interpretation of Nature. Among the 

 Greeks. The Theologians and the Natural Philosophers. 

 The Evolutionists of the Eighteenth Century. From La- 

 marck to St. Hilaire. Darwin. Index. 



"This is an attempt to determine the history of Evolution, its development 

 and that of its elements, and the indebtedness of modern to earlier investi- 

 gators. The book is a valuable contribution; it will do a great deal of good 

 in disseminating more accurate ideas of the accomplishments of the present 

 as compared with the past, and in broadening the views of such as have con- 

 fined themselves too closely to the recent or to specialties. ... As a whole 

 the book is admirable. The author has been more impartial than any of 

 those who have in part anticipated him in the same line of work." The 

 Nation. 



" But whether the thread be broken or continuous, the history of thought 

 upon this all-important subject is of the deepest interest, and Professor 

 Osborn's work will be welcomed by all who take an intelligent interest in 

 Evolution. Up to the present, the pre-Danvinian evolutionists have been for 

 the most part considered singly, the claims of particular naturalists being 

 urged often with too warm an enthusiasm. Professor Osborn has undertaken 

 a more comprehensive work, and with well-balanced judgment assigns a place 

 to each writer." Prof. EDWARD B. POULTON, in Nature, London. 



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