[0h] See “The Hereditary Transmission of Acquired Characters” in Contemporary Review, September and November 1908, in which references are given to earlier statements.
[0k] Semon’s technical terms are exclusively taken from the Greek, but as experience tells that plain men in England have a special dread of suchlike, I have substituted “imprint” for “engram,” “outcome” for “ecphoria”; for the latter term I had thought of “efference,” “manifestation,” etc., but decided on what looked more homely, and at the same time was quite distinctive enough to avoid that confusion which Semon has dodged with his Græcisms.
[0l] “Between the ‘me’ of to-day and the ‘me’ of yesterday lie night and sleep, abysses of unconsciousness; nor is there any bridge but memory with which to span them.”—Unconscious Memory, p. 71.
[0m] Preface by Mr. Charles Darwin to “Erasmus Darwin.” The Museum has copies of a Kosmos that was published 1857–60 and then discontinued; but this is clearly not the Kosmos referred to by Mr. Darwin, which began to appear in 1878.
[0n] Preface to “Erasmus Darwin.”
[2] May 1880.
[3] Kosmos, February 1879, Leipsic.
[4] Origin of Species, ed. i., p. 459.
[8a] Origin of Species, ed. i., p. 1.
[8b] Kosmos, February 1879, p. 397.