| CHAP. | | Page |
| I. | The Beginnings of
Comparative Anatomy | [1] |
| II. | Comparative Anatomy
before Cuvier | [17] |
| III. | Cuvier | [31] |
| IV. | Goethe | [45] |
| V. | Etienne Geoffroy St
Hilaire | [52] |
| VI. | The Followers of Etienne
Geoffroy St Hilaire | [79] |
| VII. | The German
Transcendentalists | [89] |
| VIII. | Transcendental Anatomy in
England—Richard Oven | [102] |
| IX. | Karl Ernst von
Baer | [113] |
| X. | The Embryological
Criterion | [133] |
| XI. | The
Cell-Theory | [169] |
| XII. | The Close of the
Pre-evolutionary Period | [190] |
| XIII. | The Relation of Lamarck
and Darwin to Morphology | [213] |
| XIV. | Ernst Haeckel and Carl
Gegenbaur | [246] |
| XV. | Early Theories on the
Origin of Vertebrates | [268] |
| XVI. | The Germ-layers and
Evolution | [288] |
| XVII. | The Organism as an
Historical Being | [302] |
| XVIII. | The Beginnings of Causal
Morphology | [314] |
| XIX. | Samuel Butler and the
Memory Theories of Heredity | [335] |
| XX. | The Classical Tradition
in Modern Morphology | [345] |
| Index | [365] |