Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DEPARTMENT OF SUMMARIES TO BE DEVOTED TO DIGESTS OF PROGRESS IN BIOLOGY While the Transactions will continue to be primarily a Journal of research in mier-- oiology, it is recognized that the field has become so broad as to preclude the possibihf of freauent articles in any one of the departments of special interest. Because of this it will be the policy to present, from time to time, supplementary digests of the progress being made in the various fields of micro-oioloiiy It is also proposed to introduce similar summaries of the progress made in some departments not represented in our articles of research. This is done with the feeling that such reviews will Increase the permanent alue of the Transactions to all who may not have access to a large list of technical biological journals, nor the time to make the survey for themselves. PROGRESS IN EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT SOME LATTER-DAY ASPECTS OF DARWINISM. By J. F. Abbott. A lecture given before the faculty and students of Washington University Jan. 9, 1912. If any one thing can be taken as a symbol of the present time, I fancy the most appropriate would be the hammer. Not only is the hammer the symbol of constructive industry so characteristic of our age, but it may also typify the spirit of iconoclasm, which is equally, if not more strikingly, characteristic. From the muckraking of a popular magazine to the calm, deliberate, destructive criticism of a system of philosophy, now is essentially a time of making over. The present generation has no reverence for traditions of the past unless they be in harmony with the point of view of the present. It is by some considered a sort of poetic justice that the image of the greatest iconoclast of modern times, in effect if not in pur- pose, - -Charles Darwin, ?shou.

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Excerpt from Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 17: Eighteenth Annual Meeting Held at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., August 21, 22 and 23, 1895 The statements of a chemist, a physicist and a biologist are added. From the character and attainments of these men, their testimony, given after years of the most earnest investigation and reflection, is worthy of consideration: When Liebig was asked if he believed that a leaf or a flower could be formed or could grow by chemical forces, he answered: I would more readily believe that a book on chemistry or on botany could grow out of dead matter by chemical processes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.