Darwin and Modern Science

DARWIN AND MODERN SCIENCE - ESSAYS IN COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DARWIN AND OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES"

By A.C. Seward and Others

PREFACE

DATES OF THE PUBLICATION Of CHARLES DARWIN'S BOOKS AND OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN HIS LIFE - 1809:

I. INTRODUCTORY LETTER From Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., ETC.

II. DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS. By J. Arthur Thomson. - Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen.

III. THE SELECTION THEORY, By August Weismann. - Professor of Zoology in the University of Freiburg (Baden).

IV. VARIATION. By HUGO DE VRIES. - Professor of Botany in the University of Amsterdam.

V. HEREDITY AND VARIATION IN MODERN LIGHTS. By W. Bateson, M.A., F.R.S. - Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge.

VI. THE MINUTE STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN RELATION TO HEREDITY. By Eduard Strasburger. - Professor of Botany in the University of Bonn.