INTRODUCTION. II 



The beginnings of Modern Evolution as part of 

 a natural order of the universe. Suggestions of 

 inductive Evolution, as based upon the transfor- 

 mation and filiation of species, by the natural phi- 

 losophers, Bacon, Descartes, Leibnitz, Hume, Kant, 

 Lessing, Herder, Schelling. 



Revival of Greek Evolution ideas in specula- 

 tive form by such speculative philosophical writers 

 and naturalists as Maupertuis, Diderot, De Maillet, 

 Robinet, Bonnet, Oken. 



in. 1730-1850 A.D. 



Modern Inductive Evolution, 2,^ Period: Btiffon 



to St. Hilaire. 



Rapid extension of Zoology, Botany and Paleon- 

 tology. Rise and decline of inductive Evolution. 

 Scattered observation and speculation upon the 

 filiation and transformation of species. 



Linnxus, Buffon, E. Darwin, Lamarck, Goethe, 

 Treviranus, Geof. St. Hilaire, St. Vincent, Is. St. 

 Hilaire. Miscellaneous writers : Grant, Rafinesque, 

 Virey, Dujardin, d'Halloy, Chevreul, Godron, Leidy, 

 Unger, Carus, Lecoq, Schaafhausen, Wolff, Meckel, 

 Von Baer, Serres, Herbert, Buch, Wells, Matthew, 

 Naudin, Haldeman, Spencer, Chambers, Owen. 



rV. 1858-1893 A.D. 



Modern Inductive Evolution, ^th Period: Darwin, 



Wallace. 

 Evolution established inductively and deductively 

 as a law of Nature. The factor of Natural Selec- 



