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INDEX 



Geoff roy, 260; volume, 167, 

 187, 263. 



Philo of Alexander, interpreta- 

 tion of Bible, 105-6, 129. 



Phylogeny, 33, 263; branching 

 tree, 248; Treviranus, 287-8. 



Physicists, 43, 51-88; anticipa- 

 tion of evolution idea, 51. 



Plant Evolution, Buff on, 223, 

 251-2; E. Darwin, 214; Her- 

 bert, 309; Lamarck, 223, 

 251-2. 



Elasticity' of Organisms, Nau- 

 din, 297. 



Plato, 43, 55, 61, 76, 77, 105; 

 Aristotelian philosophy, 76- 

 7; design, 44; final cause, 

 113; transmission of acquired 

 characters, 73, 355. 



Pliny, naturalist, 98; volume, 

 98. 



Polybus, anatomist, 67. 



Population, Buffon, 198, 287; 

 checks, 206; Malthus, 197, 

 287, 334; Treviranus, 287. 



Post-Aristotelian School, 43, 

 88-98. 



Pouchet, 38. 



Preaxagoras, 43; pupil of Aris- 

 totle, 89. 

 Predetermination, Bonnet, 177; 



Naudin, 297. 

 Prepotency, of characters, 36; 



of parent stock, 72. 

 Progressionists, 312-19. 

 Pyrrho, 43. 

 Pythagoreans, 43. 



Quatrefages, 196, 200, 206, 245, 

 257, 259; Naudin's views, 296, 

 298; St. Vincent's views, 

 292-3. 



Rafinesque, 16, 306. 



Ray, criteria of species, 186; 



systematist, 131, 185-6. 

 Reaumur, 175; defense of em- 



boitementf 36. 

 Reasoning Methods, Bacon, 123, 



135, 329, 333; Darwin, 328-9, 

 331, 333-4; Goethe, 273; Lin- 

 naean school, 263; speculative 

 writers, 264. See Deduction, 

 Induction, Schools. 



Recapitulation of Ancestry in 

 Foetus. See Biogenetic Law. 



Respiration, Geoffroy's factor 

 in transformism, 259-60. 



Reversion. See Atavism. 



Robinet, 15, 177-80; conception 

 of evolution, 162; continuity, 

 179;. generation, 180, 183; 

 germs, 179, 183, 352; influence 

 of Leibnitz, 145; perfecting 

 tendency, 178, 353; scale of 

 life, 177, 178; speculation, 

 160, 178-9; uniformitarian- 

 ism, 179; volumes, 177, 178, 

 179. 



Romanes, interpretation of 

 Aristotle, 68, 81. 



Roscellinus, abiogenesis, 106. 



Sachs, botanist, 307. 



St. Hilaire, Geoffroy. See Geof- 

 froy. 



St. Hilaire, Isidore, 16, 196, 199, 

 257, 259, 294-6, 303, 307; ap- 

 preciation of Goethe, 268; 

 definition of species, 245; de 

 Maillet, 165 ; environment, 

 295; filiation, 295; fixity, 294- 

 5; heredity, 295; tribute to 

 Schelling, 155; volumes, 245, 

 263, 294. 



St. Vincent, Bory, 16, 291-3, 

 303; abiogenesis, 292; fixa- 

 tion of specific characters, 

 293; habit, 293; origin of spe- 

 cies, 292-3; successor of La- 

 marck, 291. 



Saltation, Geoffroy, 261, 339; 

 Huxley, 339 ; opposed by Dar- 

 win, 340. 

 Sandys, John Edwin, encyclo- 

 paedist, 98. 

 Scale of Life, 19, 186, 353; Aris- 



