FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN

Columbia University Biological Series.

EDITED BY

HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN.

1. FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN.

By Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sc.D. Princeton.

2. AMPHIOXUS AND THE ANCESTRY OF THE VERTEBRATES.

By Arthur Willey, B.Sc. Lond. Univ.

3. FISHES, LIVING AND FOSSIL. An Introductory Study.

By Bashford Dean, Ph.D. Columbia.

4. THE CELL IN DEVELOPMENT AND INHERITANCE.

By Edmund B. Wilson, Ph.D. J. H. U.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL SERIES. I.

FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN

AN OUTLINE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF

THE EVOLUTION IDEA

BY

HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Sc.D.

DA COSTA PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY IN COLUMBIA COLLEGE; CURATOR IN THE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

New York

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND LONDON

1894

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

Norwood Press:

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

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