er much beloved...as soon as facts are shown to be
opposed to it." Writing to Mr J. Scott, he says, "It is a golden rule,
which I try to follow, to put every fact which is opposed to one's
preconceived opinion in the strongest light. Absolute accuracy is the
hardest merit to attain, and the highest merit. Any deviation is ruin."

He acted strictly in accordance with his determination expressed in a
letter to Lyell in 1844, "I shall keep out of controversy, and just
give my own facts." As was said of another son of Cambridge, Sir George
Stokes, "He would no more have thought of disputing about priority,
or the authorship of an idea, than of writing a report for a company
promoter." Darwin's life affords a striking confirmation of the truth
of Hazlitt's aphorism, "Where the pursuit of truth has been the habitual
study of any man's life, the love of truth will be his ruling passion."
Great as was the intellect of Darwin, his character, as Huxley wrote,
was even nobler than his intellect.

A.C. SEWARD.

Botany School, Cambridge, March 20, 1909.

CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO THE EDITOR from SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, O.M.

II. DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS: J. ARTHUR THOMSON, Professor of Natural
History in the University of Aberdeen.

III. THE SELECTION THEORY: AUGUST WEISMANN, Professor of Zoology in the
University of Freiburg (Baden).

IV. VARIATION: HUGO DE VRIES, Professor of Botany in the University of
Amsterdam.

V. HEREDITY AND VARIATION IN MODERN LIGHTS: W. BATESON, Professor of
Biology in the University of Cambridge.

VI. THE MINUTE STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN RELATION TO HEREDITY: EDUARD
STRASBURGER, Professor of Botany in the University of Bonn.

VII. "THE DESCENT OF MAN": G. SCHWALBE, Professor of Anatomy in the
University of Strassburg.

VIII. CHARLES DARWIN AS AN ANTHROPOLOGIST: ERNST HAECKEL, Professor of
Zoology in the University of Jena.

IX. SOME PRIMITIVE THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN: J.G. FRAZER, Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge.

X. THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN ON THE STUDY OF ANIMAL EMBRYOLOGY: A.
SEDGWICK, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University
of Cambridge.

XI. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. I. ANIMALS: W.B. SCOTT, Professor of
Geology in the University of Princeton.

XII. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. II. PLANTS: D.H. SCOTT, President of
the Linnean Society of London.

XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON THE FORMS OF PLANTS: GEORG KLEBS,
Professor