A COURSE OF READING ON EVOLUTION 



BESIDES the standard works of Darwin, The Origin of 

 Species, The Descent of Man, and Animals and Plants 

 under Domestication, the reader may be recommended to 

 consult the following books from among the vast number 

 written on the subject : 



For the treatment of the evolution of organisms in 

 general : A. R. Wallace, Darwinism, 1889 ; A. Weismann, 

 The Evolution Theory, 2 vols. 1904. For metabolism and 

 general physiology : M. Verworn, General Physiology, 

 1899; and for the cell-theory, E. B. Wilson, The Cell, 

 1900, in addition. For a short general study of variation : 

 H. M. Yernon, Variation in Animals and Plants, 1903 ; 

 and for the statistical treatment of variation and hered- 

 ity, F. Galton, Natural Inheritance, 1889; and K. 

 Pearson, The Grammar of Science, 1900. For mendelism : 

 W. Bateson, MendeFs Principles of Heredity, 1909 ; and 

 R. C. Punnett, Mendelism, 1911. For animal tropisms, 

 instincts, and intelligence : J. Loeb, Comparative Physi- 

 ology of the Brain, 1905 ; and C. Lloyd Morgan, Animal 

 Behaviour, 1900. Further, the student should read P. 

 Geddes and J. A. Thomson, The Evolution of Sex, 1889 ; 

 T. H. Morgan, Experimental Zoology, 1907 ; H. de Yries, 

 The Mutation Theory, 2 vols. 1910-11 ; A. Eeid, The 

 Principles of Heredity, 1906. E. B. Poulton, Essays on 

 Evolution, 1908 ; and Sir E. Ray Lankester, The Advance- 

 ment of Science, 1890, and The Kingdom of Man, 1906, 

 which contain discussions of many important problems 

 in Evolution. 



