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Book Notices ajid Reviews. 
3BooJ? "Hotices aii^ TRex^ews. 
The Making of Species. By D. Dewak and F. Finn. 
London : John Lank. 7/6 net. 
Ill our la.st is.siie a brief reference was made to the remark- 
able (for it i.s this) book our esteemed members have produced. 
Tlie views presented are certainly original, and are supported 
by an array of facts amply proving tlie authors to be thorough 
and capable investigators, the said views and facts being pre- 
sented with a fearlessness very nearly bordering on audacity. 
Tiieir two-fold purpose in producing this book is clearly 
stated in the preface : 
" In tlie first place we liave attempted to place befot e the general public 
" in simple language a true statement of the present position of biological 
"science. In the second place we have endeavoured to furnish scientific 
"men of the day with food for reflection." 
Tiiis purpose they have certainly acliieved, and also have 
declared in no faltering manner their opinion of the status of 
present day biology, as the following quotations amply show: — 
"We fear this book will come as a rude shock to many scientific men. 
" . . . . We are endeavouring to save biology in England from coni- 
" milling suicide, to save it from the hands pf those into wliicli it has 
"fallen it is not Darwinism we are attacking, but that which 
" is erroneously called Neo-Darwinisni. Neo-Darwinism is a pathological 
"growth on Darwinism, which, we fear can be removed only bj' a surgical 
" operation ." 
We are glad to note, that tliough apologetic for the fre- 
quenc}' of their quotations from popular writings, they pertinently 
remark " that a poMilar work is not necessarily i?iacciirate in its 
informatioii'' [the italics are ours. — Ed.] 
The following glossary of chapters will indicate the lines 
of this practical and interesting work. 
I. Rise and subsequent development of the Theory of Natural Selection. 
II, Some of the more important objections to it. III. Variation. 
IV. Hybridism. V. Inheritance. VI. Colouration of Organisms. 
VII. Sexual Dimorphism. VIII. The Factors of Elvolution. 
The space at our disposal does not permit of anything like 
as thorough a review as the book deserves, but we must, we fear 
somewhat di.sjointedh', briefly' indicate some of the conclusions 
reached. 
Re Natural Selection. — After an exhaustive consideration 
