Address of A. R. Wallace at the Glasgow Meeting, 871 
of their leaves in a single night. Aromatic plants abound in 
the Andes up to about 13,000 feet, as well as in the plains, but 
hardly more so than in Central and Southern Europe. The 
may lead to valuable results. But these problems are, as you 
see, for the most part connected with questions of locality, and 
require full and accurate knowledge of the productions of a 
number of small islands and other limited areas, and the means 
of comparing them the one with the other. To make such 
comparisons is, however, now quite impossible. No museum 
contains any fair representation of the productions of these 
localities, and such specimens as do. exist, being scattered 
through the general collection, are almost useless for this 
Special purpose. If, then, we are to make any progress in this 
iiquiry, it is absolutely essential that some collectors should 
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basis, keeping together the productions of every island or 
. Rise and Progress of Modern Views as to the Antiquity and 
Origin of Man. 
T how come to a branch of our subject which I would gladly 
Associ vided touching on, but as the higher powers of this 
thro ‘ation have decreed that I should preside over the An- 
“Pological Department, it seems proper that I should devote 
