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THE

AMERICAN

JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS.

[SECOND SERIES.]

ART. XV.-Review of Darwin's Theory on the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection.*

FULLY to understand the foregoing Essay of Dr. Hooker,† it should be read in the light of Mr. Darwin's book. The Essay is a trial of the Theory, an attempt by one inclined in its favor to see how the theory will work, when applied to the flora of a large and most peculiar province of the world.

This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many of our readers, before these pages are issued. An abstract of the argument,-for "the whole volume is one long argument," as the author states,-is unnecessary in such a case; and it would be difficult to give by detached extracts. For the volume itself is an abstract, a prodromus of a detailed work upon which the author has been laboring for twenty years, and which "will take two or three more years to complete." It is exceedingly compact; and although useful summaries are ap

*On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life; by CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., Fellow of the Royal, Geological, Linnan, etc. Societies, Author of "Journal of Researches during H. M. S. Beagle's Voyage round the World." London: John Murray. 1859. pp. 502, post 8vo.

This article was intended to follow the remaining part of the essay of Dr. Hooker, commenced in our January number; the continuation of which we are obliged to defer, for want of room.-EDS.

SECOND SERIES, VOL. XXIX, No. 86.-MARCH, 1860.

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