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new relations. Tlie objection as to the sudden abortion of 

 rudimentary organs may be similarly met. 



Prof. Huxley seems now disposed to accei)t the, at least 

 occasional, intervention of sudden and considerable varia- 

 tions. In his review of Prof. KoUiker's'^"^ criticisms, he 



MUOM ENLAn'JED HORIZONTAL SECTION OF THE TOOTH OF A I.AUYRINTIIODON. 



himself says, "" We greatly suspect that she" (i. o., Na- 

 ture) "does make consideiable jumps in ilio way of varia- 

 tion now and then, and Ihat these saltations give rise to 



** " O'bcr die Parwin'schc SelKipfunf^stlicorie : " eiii Vortrac^, von 

 Kiillikcr; Leipzi-,', 18t>l. ''•' Se;i " Lay Sennons," p. 31ii. 



