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this the questicn of questions is solved, man’s place in 
nature is determined, and his relationship to the universe 
of things is defined. Both Huxley and Vogt, in 1863, 
strove to solve this question by showing the close relation- 
ship between man and the higher mammalian animals; and 
later on, in 1871, in his ‘‘ Descent of Man,”’ Darwin sub- 
mitted collective evidence in favor of man’s animal ancestry. 
Afterwards, in 1874, in my ‘‘ Anthropogenie,”’ I made a 
first attempt to outline the entire range of man’s animal 
lineage, that necessarily has been conformable with the 
historical development of his organization. In my 
‘“Systematic Phylogeny,” in 1894, I attempted the hard 
task of tracing the relationship betwixt living things 
throughout the vegetable and animal kingdoms ; believing 
that thereby the pedigree of hypothetical classes and orders 
might be more exactly determined.) In 1868 I had outlined 
a preliminary sketch of Phylogeny in my ‘« Natural History 
of Creation.’’ In the course of the last forty years this 
young science, Phylogeny, has made gratifying progress. 
Endless attacks directed against it by conservative adher- 
ents to venerable outworn myths of creation, have been 
powerless to shake its foundations. On the other hand, 
thousands of works already recognize the worth of biogen- 
etic principles ; and point out the importance of Phyletic 
instruction. ‘There however still is, in many circles, a lack 
of realistic investigation necessary to obtain the data on 
which phylogenetic inductions rest, and on which a 
clear understanding of causative relationship depends. 
In furtherance of means to meet this need, the 
establishment of a Phyletic Museum has for a long time 
seemed to me desirable. Such a museum should be an 
institution in which the weightiest truths concerning 
Phylogeny are methodically presented and made clear to 
the understanding by means of objects, preparations, illus- 
Nore. (1)—Phylogeny, from two Greek words=ancestral history. 
Is opposed to Ontogeny, the individual life-history of a living being. 
