[30] Life and Letters, ii, p. 301.

[31] Science Progress, New Series, Vol. 1. 1897. "A Remarkable Anticipation of Modern Views on Evolution." See also Chap. vi. in Essays on Evolution, Oxford, 1908.

[32] See Prof. Patrick Geddes's article "Variation and Selection," Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th edit.) 1888.


II

THE SELECTION THEORY

By August Weismann

Professor of Zoology in the University of Freiburg (Baden)

I. The Idea of Selection