250 Charles Darwin. 



the phenomena presented by the organic world, and 

 thus, at last, the whole domain of biology is eman- 

 cipated from teleological fetters, and placed on the 

 high plane of rational investigation. 



In conclusion, let me simply say that, while we 

 can but deeply mourn the irreparable loss which 

 science has sustained in the death of Charles Dar- 

 win, we have still the highest grounds for congratu- 

 lation in the fact that he lived to complete that 

 great work which, next to the " Origin of Species," 

 will, I firmly believe, be awarded by posterity the 

 highest place, viz. : " The Power of Movement in 

 Plants " ; for, while the former auspiciously opened 

 the great debate by stating the profoundest of all 

 biological problems, the latter has fittingly closed the 

 argument by answering the last objection. 



DARWIN ON THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS. 

 BY FRANK BAKER, M.D. 



From the tendency of the imagination to magnify 

 the unknown and remote, arises a popular error that 

 to attain eminence a man of science must be able to 

 gather facts from great distances from the sources 

 of the Nile, and from polar snows. But the near and 

 commonplace are subject to the same laws as the 

 atoms of interstellar space, and true scientific insight 

 may discover in the very dust under our feet secrets 

 hitherto concealed. 



Darwin's work upon the " Expression of the Emo- 

 tions " is continuous with and supplementary to his 

 larger and better-known treatise on the " Descent of 



