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Title: The Coming of Evolution
The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

Author: John W. (John Wesley) Judd

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THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

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[Illustration: Charles Darwin]

THE COMING OF EVOLUTION

The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

by

JOHN W. JUDD
C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.

Formerly Professor of Geology and
Dean of the Royal College of Science

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1910

Cambridge:
Printed by John Clay, M.A.
At the University Press

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on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest
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CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. Introductory 1

II. Origin of the Idea of Evolution 5

III. The Development of the Idea of Evolution to the
Inorganic World 14

IV. The Triumph of Catastrophism over Evolution 2