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THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE. 



actions before experienced. Now if clianges of organic 

 structure are caused, directly or indirectly, by changes in 

 tbe incidence of forces ; there must result unKkenesses of 

 structure between the divisions of a race which colonizes 

 new habitats. Hence, in the absence of obstacles to migra- 

 tion, we may anticipate manifest kinships between tht 

 animals and plants of one area, and those of areas adjoining it. 

 This inference corresponds mth an induction before set 

 down (§ 106). In addition to the illustrations of it ah'eady 

 quoted from Mr Darwin, his pages furnish others. One ia 

 that species which inhabit islands are habitually allied to 

 species which inhabit neighbouring main lands ; and an- 

 other is that the faunas of clustered islands show marked 

 similarities. "Thus the several islands of the Galapagos 

 Archipelago are tenanted," says Mr Darwin, "in a quite 

 marvellous manner, by very closely related species ; so that 

 the inhabitants of each separate island, though mostly dis- 

 tinct, are related in an incomparably closer degree to each 

 other than to the inhabitants of any other part of the world." 

 Mr Wallace has traced " variation as specially influenced by 

 locality " among the PapilionidcB inhabiting the East Indian 

 Archipelago : showing how " the species and varieties of 

 Celebes possess a striking character in the form of the 

 anterior wings, different from that of the allied species and 

 varieties of all the surrounding islaads ; " and how " tailed 

 species in India and the western islands lose their tails as 

 they spread eastward through the archipelago." During 

 his travels on the Upper Amazons, Mr Bates found that 

 " the greater part of the species of Ithomiw changed from 

 one locality to another, not fui'ther removed than 100 to 200 

 miles ; " that " many of these local species have the appear- 

 ance of being geographical varieties ; " and that in some 

 species "most of the local varieties are connected with their 

 parent form by individuals exhibiting all the shades of 

 variation." 



Further general relationships are to be iafnrred. If 



