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tional witness to the soundness of Darwin's 

 theory, nor even as a mere adding of mate- 

 rial to the literature of Darwinism, already 

 represented by the names of Bree and Dau- 

 beny (1860), of Von Pelzen (1861), of Eolle 

 (1863), of riourens (1864), of Hallier and 

 Young (1865), of Haeckel and 0. E. Schmidt 

 (1866), of Professor Omboui (1867), of 

 Buechner and Twemlow (1868), and last, 

 not least, of Fritz Mueller, whose testimony 

 hardly reached England before the begin- 

 ning of this year. 



The fruit of my labour may be regarded 

 in no other light than that of an humble 

 palm-leaf on the shrine of a man who has 

 promulgated truth in his attempt to cut 

 short the existence of error. 



It may not be superfluous for the non-pro- 

 fessional student of language to receive the 

 additional assurance that all data furnished 

 by the German glossologist, as far as his 



