Notices of New Books. 7577 



Notices of New Books. 



1. The Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection ; or, the 

 Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By 

 Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Third Edition. 538 pp., 

 8vo. London : John Mniray, Albemarle Street. March, 1861. 

 Price 14s. 



2. Natural Selection not inconsistent ivith Natural Theology ; or, 

 a Free Examination of Darwin\s Treatise on the Origin of 

 Species, and of its American Reviewers. Reprinted from the 

 'Atlantic Monthly ' for July, August and October, 1860. By 

 Asa Gray, M.D., Fisher Professor of Natural History in Harvard 

 University. A Pamphlet of 55 pp., large 8vo. London : 

 Triibner & Co., Paternoster Row. Boston : Trickner & Fields. 

 1861. 



3. On the Origin of Species by means of Organic Affinity. By 

 H. Freke, A.B., xM.D., T.C.D. 135 pp., large 8vo. London : 

 Longman & Co., Paternoster Row. 1861. 



4. Species not Transmuiable, nor the Result of Secondary Causes ; 

 being a Critical Examination of Mr. Darwin's book intituled 

 ' Origin and Variation of Species.' By C. R. Bkee, M.D., 

 F.L.S. 256 pp., 8vo. London : Groombridge & Sons, 5, Pa- 

 ternoster Row. September, 1860. Price 3s. 6d. 



An Editor professing to keep up a record of the current literature 

 of his subject, owes his readers some apology for omitting for so many 

 months the notice of Mr. Darwin's volume on the 'Origin of Species.' 

 The first edition has now been before the public some time, and 

 has probably ere this been perused by most of the readers of the 

 ' Zoologist.' The difficulty of doing anything like justice either to 

 the subject or the author of the work, within the ordinary dimensions 

 of a review, has influenced us in withholding a notice up to the 

 present time ; but the great interest it has awakened in the mind of 

 the scientific public, and the extensive controversy that has arisen 

 out of it, including several voluminous publications and reviews 

 expressing a variety of sentiments, and a rejoinder to some of the 

 objectors in Mr. Darwin's third edition, demand that we should 

 remain silent no longer. 



To attempt to give a full exposition of the controversy is beyond 

 our limits ; the difficulty of epitomising such a closely-connected 

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