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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Coming of Evolution, by John W. (John Wesley) Judd

Title: The Coming of Evolution

The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

Author: John W. (John Wesley) Judd

Release Date: February 18, 2010 [eBook #31316]

Language: English

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The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature

THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

London: FETTER LANE, E.C.

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Charles Darwin

THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

THE STORY OF A GREAT REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE

by

JOHN W. JUDD

C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.

Formerly Professor of Geology And Dean of the Royal College of Science

Cambridge:

at the University Press

1910

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521

CONTENTS

CHAP.   PAGE
I. Introductory 1
II. Origin of the Idea of Evolution 5
III. The Development of the Idea of Evolution to the Inorganic World 14
IV. The Triumph of Catastrophism over Evolution 20
V. The Revolt of Scrope and Lyell against Catastrophism 33
VI. The Principles of Geology 55
VII. The Influence of Lyell's Works 68
VIII. Early Attempts to establish the Doctrine of Evolution for the Organic World 82
IX. Darwin and Wallace: The Theory of Natural Selection 95
X. The Origin of Species 115
XI. The Influence of Darwin's Works 136
XII. The Place of Lyell and Darwin in History 149
  Notes 160
  Index 165

PLATES

Charles Darwin Frontispiece
G. Poulett Scrope to face p. 35
Charles Lyell    "   "  41
Alfred R. Wallace    "   "  110

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