[61] Tom. i. p. 13, 1749.
[62] 'Hist. Nat. Gén.,' tom. ii. p. 411, 1859.
[63] Tom. xi. p. 290, 1764 (misprinted on title-page 1754).
[64] See tom. xiv. p. 326, 1766; and p. [162] of this volume.
BUFFON—FULLER QUOTATIONS.
Let us now proceed to those fuller quotations which may answer the double purpose of bearing me out in the view of Buffon's work which I have taken in the foregoing pages, and of inducing the reader to turn to Buffon himself.
I have already said that from the very commencement of his work Buffon showed a proclivity towards considerations which were certain to lead him to a theory of evolution, even though he had not, as I believe he had, already taken a more comprehensive view of the subject than he thought fit to proclaim unreservedly.