ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, in the Contemporary Review oi 

 August, 1908, p. 140, in an article on 'The Present Posi- 

 tion of Darwinism,' writes as follows : 



1 In conclusion, I would suggest to those of my readers 

 who are interested in the great questions associated with the 

 name of Darwin, but who have not had the means of study- 

 ing the facts either in the field or the library, that in order 

 to obtain some real comprehension of the issue involved in 

 the controversy now going on they should read at least one 

 book on each side. The first I would recommend is a 

 volume by Mr. R. H. Lock on "Variation, Heredity and 

 Evolution" (1906) as the only recent book giving an account 

 of the whole subject from the point of view of the Mendelians 

 and Mutationists. When they have mastered this, I ask 

 them to read my own book on " Darwinism" (1901), which, 

 though published before Mendelism became prominent, 

 gives some idea in popular language of the vast range of 

 subjects which Darwinism explains, and adduces a sufficient 

 body of facts to show the inadequacy of the whole series of 

 phenomena yet made public. 



* Having read these two works and again considered the 

 arguments adduced in this article, I leave them to form 

 their conclusions as to whether Darwinism is or is not an 

 u unsuccessful hypothesis." ' 



1 ALFRED R. WALLACE.' 



