books.google.co.in - 'Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the most important pre-Darwinian work of evolutionary thought published in Victorian Britain. It caused huge controversy and was undoubtedly a major factor in preparing the way, both positively and negatively, for On the Origin of Species....http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Vestiges_and_the_Debate_Before_Darwin.html?id=M8ZE-kzxBs0C&q=authority&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareVestiges and the Debate Before Darwin
