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have arisen as here suggested from the eggs laid by the hy 

 workers the fewness of such individuals in comparison with 

 large number of pure males is explained. On the other 1 

 the apparently well established view thai drones come from 

 fertilized eggs does not exclude the possibility that fertil 



Poulton and Plate on Evolution.— The boundary lines of political 



geography are supposed to have no influence in determining scien- 

 tific beliefs. In science one is cosmopolite. But hedged in by a 

 nation's boundaries is a people of one blood, men of a common 

 genealogy, and hence of some identity of hereditary endowment. 

 It may not be so easy, therefore, for an Englishman to be French 

 in scientific tenets as he may imagine. The coincidence that the 

 majority of conspicuous English biologists, such men as Wallace, 

 Galton, Lankester, Archdall Reid, Edward Poulton and others, 

 hold so strongly to the natural selection dogma, and, except for 

 the German founder of the school, are the most outspoken up- 

 holders of neo-Darwinism, may be indeed more than a coincidence. 

 It may be unconscious scientific patriotism. And so in France, 



biology toward Lamarckism. How much more pitiful, in the 

 light of this fact, let us add, seem the neglect and contempt of 

 the great French evolutionist in his lifetime by his Gallic 

 colleagues! But he lias now his reward. Scientific patriotism 

 is bnmrini: his name and his teaching to be the <_dory of French 

 biology. ^ I V W ' tl 



founder of neo-Darwinism the Germans ought to be neo-Dar- 

 winists, but they mostly are not; and as Haeckel is a monist, 



we ought to be more Darwinian than Lamarckian, but we are 

 not. So my theory, like many another of even greater plausi- 

 bility, but ill stands hard wear. Even in England there are men 

 who see other factors in evolution than natural selection, and 

 to tell the truth these men in the minority are after all the truer 

 upholders of scientific patriotism, for like them Darwin also saw 



