PREFACE. 



At the beginning of this year the reading classes of 



looa in a state of exoectancy. 



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thousand^'throughout our land. There is no difficulty 

 in getting through the two volumes of which it is 

 composed, for they abound in facts gathered from that 

 most interesting field of enquiry— Natural History ; and 

 where facts fail him, Mr. Darwin is able, in their 

 stead, to present suppositions quite as interesting, and 

 perhaps even more startling. 



But to the mind of a serious reader this is all that can 

 be obtained from its perusal, for Mr. Darwin's style of 



