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Principled of Viticulture; while other chapters treat of Vintage and 

 Vinificatwn, the Chemistry of Alcohol, the Acids, Ether, Sugars, 

 and other matters occurring in wine. This introductory mattei- 

 trclupies the first nine chapters, the remaining seventeen chapters 

 being occupied with u detailed account of the Viticulture and the 

 Wines of the various countries of Europe, of the Atlantic Islands, 

 of Asia, of Africa, of America, and of Australia. Besides a 

 numier of Analytical and Statistical Tables, the work is enriched 

 ^th eighty five illustrative woodcuts. ' ^A treatise almost unique 

 for its usefulness eithc}- to the wine-grifwei', the vendor, or the con- 

 sumer of wine. Tlie analyses of laine are the most complete we 

 have yet seen, exhibiting at a glance the constituent principles of 

 nearly all the wines known in thiscountry.^^ — Wine Trade Review. 



W&lliace (A. R.)— contributions to the theory 



dF NATURAL SELECTION. A Series of Essays. By 

 Alfred Russel Wallace, Aulhor of " The Malay^ Archipelago," 

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"Mr. Wallace has good claims to be considered as an independent 

 originator of the theory of. natural selection. Dr. Hooker, in 

 his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the author : 

 " Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical 

 biology it is not easy to speak withojtt enthusiasm; for, putting 

 'Aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a 

 m-odesty as rare as I believe it to be unconsciout, forgets his own 

 unquestioned claim to the Iwnour of having originated indepen- 

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 The Saturday Review says : "He has combined an abundance of 

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 -.vhich are not often displayed so effectively on so small a scale." 

 The Essays in this volume are : — /. ' ' On the Law which has regti - 

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 Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type.' III. "M'- 

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 " The Malayan Papilionidce, as illustrative of the Theory of 

 Natural Selection." V. "On Instinct in Man and Animals." 

 VI. " The Philosophy of Bird^ Nests." VII '' A Theory of 

 Birds' Nests." VIII. " Creation by Law." IX. " The Develop- 

 ment of Human Paces under the Lazv of Natural Selection." 

 X. " The Limits of Natural Selection as applied to Man." 



