JOUENAL 



OF THE 



Royal Horticultural Society. 



Vol. XXL 1897. 

 Paet II. 



MUTUAL ACCOMMODATIONS BETWEEN PLANT 

 ORGANS : OR THE STUDY OF HOMOLOGY AND 

 ANALOGY. 



By the Rev. Geoege Hex\slow, M.A., V.M.H., F.L.S., &c. 



[Read July 13, 1S97.] 



Me. H. Spencee and Darwin are to be credited with the honour 



of having presented the great doctrine of evolution, or the 



development of all kinds of animals and plants from pre-existing 



races, respectively, in an acceptable light to English readers. 



Every one knew that individuals were evolved or developed, 



because it is a self-evident fact that an egg, for example, can 



produce a bird or reptile. It is obvious that no being ever 



comes into existence full grown. Y r et this was the old idea as 



to the first originals of all animals and plants ; as Milton's 



imagination has so graphically described them in his " Paradise 



Lost." * We now know that the laws which are true for the 



* In the first chapter of Genesis attention should be paid to the repeated 

 phrase " Let the earth put forth grass," " Let the waters bring forth," &o. 

 The words appear to indicate secondary agencies or evolutionary processes. 



