Works of Charles Darwin, 



D. APPLETON & COMPANY 



Have just published a new edition of 



THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, 



BY MEANS OF NATUEAL SELECTION. 



A NEW American edition of " The Origin of Species," later 

 than the latest English edition, has just been published, with 

 the author's most recent corrections and additions. 



In the whole history of the progress of knowledge there 

 is no case so remarkable of a system of doctrines, at first 

 generally condemned as false and absurd, coming into gen- 

 eral acceptance in the scientific world in a single decade. The 

 views of Mr. DARwnsr wiU undoubtedly undergo both modifica- 

 tion and extension in the future, but in their broad scope they 

 are not only extensively assented to, but they are guiding the 

 researches of the foremost scientific minds of the world. From 

 the following statements, the reader will infer the estimate 

 that is now placed upon the man and his works by the highest 

 authorities. 



The great law of " Natural Selection " was independently dis- 

 covered by Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, an eminent English 

 naturalist. He has lately published a work upon this subject, 

 and in its preface he pays the following tribute to the author 

 of the " Origin of Species : " 



" The present work will, I ventm-e to think, prove that I 

 both saw, at the time, the value and scope of the law which I 

 had discovered, and have since been able to apply it to some 

 purpose in a few original lines of investigation. But here my 



