[222b] Those who read the three following chapters will see that these words, written in 1880, have come out near the truth in 1884.
[223a] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Williams & Norgate. 1858, p. 61.
[223b] Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, 2d ed., 1871, p. 41.
[223c] Origin of Species, p. I, ed. 1872.
[223d] Origin of Species, 6th ed., p. 206. I ought in fairness to Mr Darwin to say that he does not hold the error to be quite as serious as he once did. It is now “a serious error” only; in 1859 it was “most serious error.”—Origin of Species, 1st ed., p. 209.
[224] Origin of Species, 1st ed., p. 242; 6th ed., p. 233.
[225a] I never could find what these particular points were.
[225b] Isidore Geoffrey, Hist. Nat. Gen., tom. ii. p. 407, 1859.
[225c] M. Martin’s edition of the Philosophie Zoologique (Paris, 1873), Introduction, p. vi.
[225d] Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., p. 750.