IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES DARWIN 



the nectar, and carry away on their backs the 

 pollen with which to fertilize the next plant they 

 visit. Thus the fairest and sweetest flowers are 

 continually selected to perpetuate their race, and 

 thus have insects and flowering plants been de- 

 veloped in close correlation with one another. 



It was Mr. Darwin's good fortune to live 

 long enough to see his theory not only adopted 

 by all competent naturalists, but demonstrated 

 by crucial evidence in the case of at least one 

 genus. The researches of Professor Marsh into 

 the palaeontology of the horse have established 

 beyond question the descent of the genus equus 

 from a five-toed mammal not larger than a pig, 

 and somewhat resembling a tapir. All the 

 " missing links " in this case have been found ; 

 and thus the primitive barbaric hypothesis of 

 " special creations " may be said to have dis- 

 appeared forever from the field of natural his- 

 tory. It has taken its place by the side of the 

 Ptolemaic astronomy and the dreams of the 

 alchemists. 



Mr. Darwin's latest books belong to a period 

 in which, having lived to witness the complete 

 success of his great work, he has employed his 

 time in recording the results of his researches 

 on many subsidiary points, of no little interest 

 and importance. The treatises on the Expres- 

 sion of the Emotions in Man and Animals, on 

 the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, 

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