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fon, Chambers, Colonna, Comte, Cope, Cuvier, 

 Darwin (Erasmus and Charles), D'Archiac, 

 D'Azyr, da Vinci, de Blainville, de Candolle, de 

 Maillet, de Maupertuis, Democritus, Deperet, 

 Descartes, Diderot, Diogenes, Dioscoridus, Du- 

 jardin, Dumeril, Duret, Empedocles, Epicurus, 

 Erigena, Fracastoro, Galen, St. Hilaire (Geof- 

 froy, Isidore), Goethe, Gregory, Haldeman, 

 Helvetius, Heraclitus, Heraphilus, Herbert, 

 Herder, Hippocrates, Hofmeister, Humboldt, 

 Hume, Kant, Keyserling, Kielmeyer, Kircher, 

 Lamarck, Laplace, Lavater, Leeuwenhoek, 

 Leibnitz, Leidy, Lessing, Linngeus, Loder, Lu- 

 cretius, Lyell, Malthus, Matthew, Meckel, Mi- 

 vart, McCloud, Nageli, Naudin, Newton, Oken, 

 Owen, Philo, Plato, Pliny, Polybus, Preaxago- 

 ras, Pyrrho, Quatrefages, Rafinesque, Reamur, 

 Robinet, Roscellinus, St. Vincent, Schaaff- 

 hausen, Schleiden, Schwann, Serres, Socrates, 

 Sophocles, Spencer, Sperling, Spinoza, Steno, 

 Strato, Suarez, Swammerdam, Sylvius, Thales, 

 Theophrastus, Treviranus, Unger, Vesalius, Vol- 

 taire, von Baer, von Buch, Wallace, Wells, Wil- 

 liam of Occam, Wolff, Wotton, Xenophanes. 



Each of the above hundred and twenty-five 

 writers took some part in either the advancement 

 or the retardation of the evolution idea. Through- 

 out the Middle Ages and up to the times of 

 Francis Bacon and da Vinci, natural philoso- 



