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hard shells of molluscs and the enameled teeth 

 and other parts of mammals are entirely inde- 

 pendent parts of entirely different organisms, 

 and that if similar laws have been discovered in 

 such widely distinct fields of observation they 

 tend to show that these laws were of force or of 

 wide potency in hving organisms in general. 



We are, therefore, now enjoying an entirely 

 new vintage of facts and principles. How far 

 can this new wine be put into the old bottles of 

 Darwin's beliefs? What would Darwin him- 

 self say if with his incomparable candor and his 

 incomparable power of generalization he were 

 to examine these facts discovered in close phyletic 

 series of vertebrates and invertebrates, and were 

 to test the conclusions which appear to be in- 

 ductively derived from them? 



Thus two great questions arise on this anni- 

 versary day in connection with the two words, 

 Darwin and Paleontology: first, what has Dar- 

 win done for paleontology ; second, what has pa- 

 leontology done for Darwin or for the sum and 

 detail of Darwin's teachings? 



DARWIN THE SECOND FOUNDER OF 

 PALEONTOLOGY 



The former question is readily answered; as 

 Cuvier was the first, so Darwin was the second 

 founder of paleontology. His contributions to 

 the principles of the science were prepared for 



