THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, 
By CHARLES DARWIN. 
A hew American edition of “The Origin of Species,” later than the latest 
English edition, has just been published, with the author’s most recent con. 
rections and additions, 
in the whole history of the progress of knowledge there is no case so re 
maarkable of a system of doctrines, at first generally condemned as false and 
absurd, coming into general acceptance in the scientific world in a single 
decade. From the following statements, the reader will infer the estimate 
that is now placed upon the man and his works by the highest authorities, 
“Personally and practically exercised in zoology, in minute anatomy, in 
geology; a student of geographical distribution, not on maps and in museums 
only, but by long voyages and laborious collection; having largely advanced 
each of these branches of science, and having spent many years in gathering 
and sifting materials for his present work, the store of accurately-registered 
facts upon which the author of the ‘ Origin of Species’ is able to draw at 
will is prodigious.”—Prof. T. H. Huxtry. 
“War abler men than myself may confess that they have not that untiring 
patience in accumulating, and that wonderful skill in using, large masses of 
facts of the most varied kind—that wide and accurate physiological knowl. 
edge—that acuteness in devising, that skill in carrying out experiments, and 
that admirable style of composition, at once clear, persuasive, and judicial, 
qualities which, in their harmonious combination, mark out Mr. Darwin as 
the man, perhaps of all men now living, best fitted for the great work he 
has undertaken and accomplished.”—ALrrep RussELL WaLuace. 
In Germany these views are rapidly extending. Prof. Girrix, a distin- 
guished British geologist, attended the recent Congress of German Natural- 
ists and Physicians, at Innspruck, in which some eight hundred savants 
were present, and thus writes: 
“What specially struck me was the universal sway which the writings 
of Darwin now exercise over the German mind. You see it on every side, in 
private conversation, in printed papers, in all the many sections into which 
such a meeting as that at Innspruck divides. Darwin’s name is often men- 
tioned, and always with the profoundest veneration. But even where no al- 
lusion is specially made to him, nay, even more markedly, where such allusion 
is absent, we see how thoroughly his doctrinés have permeated the scientifia 
mind, even in those departments of knowledge which might seem at first 
sight to be farthest from natural history. ‘You are still discussing in Eng- 
land,’ said a German friend to me, ‘ whether or not the theory of Darwin can 
be true. We have got a long way beyond that here. His theory is now our 
common starting-point.’ And, so far as my experience went, I found it te 
be so.” ‘ 
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers. 
