EVOLUTION 



CHAPTER I 



EVIDENCES OP EVOLUTION FROM EXPLORER 

 AND PALAEONTOLOGIST 



The Voyage of the "Beagle'* The Galapagos Islands 

 Other Geographical Evidence Resemblances of Present 

 Forms and Past Ones The Ancestry of the Horse 

 Connecting Links Other Palaeontological Evidences. 



THE VOYAGE OF THE "BEAGLE."- We think 

 of the voyage of the " CliallBgr " as a Co- 

 lumbus-voyage in the history of Biology, 

 for it revealed a new world the strange, 

 silent, cold, dark, plantless world of the 

 abyssal sea. But a far grealer Columbus- 

 voyage was that of the "Beagle" (1831-6), 

 which led_JParwin,_as the supreme_,fidd- 

 naturalist, at. once widest 



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'makethe whole world new. For it was during 

 tHis voyage tfiatTUie evolution jst;,, iqey^of 

 Nature, was vitally borne in on Darwin's 

 mmcL He tells us so himself: "On my return 

 home in the autumn of 1836 I immediately 

 began to prepare my journal for publication, 

 and then saw how many facts indicated the 



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