
648 The American Naturalist. [July, 
eral reader. In fact, the work is an excellent one to put into the 
hands of any person without scientific knowledge, who desires to get 
an insight into questions that occupy at present the scientific mind. 
An especial interest will attach to the book, in the minds of Ameri- 
cans, because many of the facts and conclusions described are derived 
from the work of their countrymen. This will be a recommendation 
to those foreign readers who do not desire the labor of searching the 
original sources in our scientific literature, for popularizers of Ameri- 
can biologic work have not yet grown up on our own soil. The 
authoress is the wife of an English physician who lived at Vancouver, 
British Columbia, and is still a resident of that beautiful region. 
Mrs. Bodington has become a Neo-Lamarckian in her views after an 
impartial examination of the evidence offered by paleontology, and 
she says: ‘‘ Neo-Lamarckism supplies the ‘ motif’ which runs through 
almost every study in this little book. I had not met with the works 
of Lamarck when these. studies were written, yet it seems to me that 
every advance in the physical sciences which I have endeavored to 
chronicle adds a fresh laurel to the fame of this most unjustly decried 
genius. If we, who love and honor the name of Darwin, look upon 
him as the Newton of evolution, we surely shall not detract from his 
fame if we look upon Lamarck as its Galileo.’’ 

