166 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



is what he says about the Evolution 

 theory of Mr. Darwin: 



"It is evident, especially after the most 

 fundamental principles of Darwinism, that 

 an organised being cannot be a descendant 

 of another whose development is an 

 inverse order to its own. Consequently, 

 in accordance with these principles, man 

 cannot be considered as the descendant of any 

 simian type whatever"* 



2. My second witness shall be that 

 famous Naturalist, FRANK BUCKLAND, the 

 greater son of a great father, whose 

 authority on all subjects connected with 

 the fishy tribe was of a higher nature 

 than that of Darwin himself. Two days 

 before his lamented death in 1880, he 

 completed the Preface to his latest work, 

 The Natural History of British Fishes. 

 With fidelity to his Creator, as well as to 

 the fame of his earthly father, himself a 



* Tfie Human Species. By A. De Quatrefages, 

 Membre de 1'Institut (Academie des Sciences), and 

 Foreign Member of the Koyal Society. Inter- 

 national Scientific Series, vol. xxvi., p. 111. 



