42 THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANIMAL WORLD 



It is into these really rudimentary sketches, bor- 

 rowed, moreover, from the researches of Huxley, 

 Kowalevsky, and Goodsir, that Darwin's sole 

 attempt to reconstruct the genealogy of one branch 

 of living beings resolves itself. Am I too severe 

 in concluding that, palseontologically at least, the 

 question of the Origin of Species remains unsolved ? 



