INTR OD UC TION. 



II 



The beginnings of Modern Evolution as part of 

 a natural order of the universe. Suggestions of 

 inductive Evolution, as based upon the transfor- 

 mation and filiation of species, by the natural phi- 

 losophers, Bacon, Descartes, Leibnitz, Hume, Kant, 

 Lessing, Herder, Schelling. 



Revival of Greek EvohUion ideas in specula- 

 tive form by such speculative philosophical writers 

 and naturalists as Maupertuis, Diderot, De IMaillet, 

 Robinet, Bonnet, Oken. 



in. 1730-1850 A.D. 

 Modern Inductive Evolution, 3^ Period: Buff on 



to St. Hi lair e. 



Rapid extension of Zoology, Botany and Paleon- 

 tology. Rise and decline of inductive Evolution. 

 Scattered observation and speculation upon the 

 filiation and transformation of species. 



Linn^us, Buffon, E. Darwin, Lamarck, Goethe, 

 Treviranus, Geof. St. Hilaire, St. Vincent, Is. St. 

 Hilaire. Miscellaneous writers : Grant, Rafinesque, 

 Virey, Dujardin, d'Halloy, Chevreul, Godron, Leidy, 

 Unger, Carus, Lecoq, Schaafhausen, Wolff, Meckel, 

 Von Baer, Serres, Herbert, Buch, Wells, Matthew^ 

 Naudin, Haldeman, Spencer, Chambers, Owen. 



IV. 1858-1893 A.D. 



Modern Inductive Evolution, /[t/i Period : Da7"win, 



Wallace. 



Evolution established inductively and deductively 

 as a law of Nature. The factor of Natural Sclcc- 



