DARWIN I ANA. 



THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL 

 SELECTION. 1 



(AMKBICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE ASD AETS, March, I860.) 



THIS book is already exciting much attention. 

 Two American editions are announced, through which 

 it will become familiar to many of our readers, before 

 these pages are issued. An abstract of the argument 

 for " the whole volume is one long argument," as 

 the author states is unnecessary in such a case ; and 

 it would be difficult to give by detached extracts. 

 For the volume itself is an abstract, a prodromus of a 

 detailed work upon which the author has been labor- 

 ing for twenty years, and which " will take two or three 

 more years to complete." It is exceedingly compact ; 

 and although useful summaries are appended to the 

 several chapters, and a general recapitulation con- 



1 " On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the 

 Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life," by Charles 

 Darwin, M. A., Fellow of the Royal, Geological, Linnzean, etc., Societies, 

 Author of " Journal of Researches during H. M. S. Beagle's Voyage 

 round the World." London : John Murray. 1859. 502 pp., post 8vo. 



