212 WALTER KIDD, ESQ., M.D., F.Z.S., 



+00 strongly consider the arguments that Dr. Kidtl has put 

 forward. 



Dr. KiDD. — I am greatly indebted to the Chairman and the 

 speakers for their kind approbation of my paper. I have hardly 

 any adverse criticism to deal with. 



I will refer to the last point, which is the only one I need refer 

 to, viz., that mentioned by the Chairman, the belief of Weissmann. 

 That seems to be destructive to a great extent of the real 

 theory of evolution, as Darwin put it forward. 



In the end I hope we shall see the Delta stages reached. 



I thank you for the very kind reception of my paper. 



The Meetins" then terminated. 



THE FOLLOWING COMMUNICATIONS ON DR. KIDD'S 

 PAPER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. 



From Rev. F. R. Tennant :— 



I feel grateful to Dr. Kidd for the timely caution which his 

 paper gives. In a time when Evolution is " in the air," it is a 

 courageous, if a thankless task, to point out the difficulties and 

 shortcomings, real or apparent, of the almost universally accepted 

 Theory. I do not feel myself able to estimate the value of all 

 the evidence Dr. Kidd has marshalled against the all-sufficiency of 

 natui-al selection, but I can the more easily realise, since reading 

 his paper, that possibly the progress of Evolution has been rather 

 too rapid ; that science has lately been too niucli engrossed in 

 enumerating what Evolution can explain, to notice as carefully as 

 she might how much evolution, or luthcr, natural selection, 

 cannot as yet explain. I tliink it is well for evolutionists to be 

 reminded how much of their system has been arrived at by 

 processes which must, to say the least, be regarded as methods of 

 " exterpolation." 



But I am sorry that Dr. Kidd has taken up the position, 

 which he expresses in the following sentence : — " It may be here 

 acknowledged that the theories of Creation and Evolution, logically 



