CUÉNOT DELAGE ROSA (DANIELE) KOLLIKER DIAMIARE CARAZZI (DAVID) BATESON CHAUFFARD HENSLOW HYATT COPE EIMER PIEPERS HARTMANN DE VRIES NÄGELI PACKARD JAECKEL GOETTE HABERLANDT SACHS KASSOVITTZ STROMER DEPÉRET VOGT MORGAN DAVENPORT LE DANTEC FLEISCHMANN DRIESCH DENNERT DI BARNARDO WIGAND WOOLF SCHMARDA SERGI PFEFFER VIALLETON CONN OSBORN DACQUÉ A few quotations may not come amiss:— “We [biologists in general] have come to the conviction that the principle of Natural Selection cannot have been the chief factor in determining species....” (PROFESSOR BATESON, President of British Association, 1914, speaking in Melbourne.) “Natural Selection never explains at all the specifications of the animal and vegetable forms that are actually found....” “For men of clear intellect Darwinism has long been dead....” (DRIESCH.) “We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are all agreed that there is _no part_ [my italics] of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact....” (DWIGHT, Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University.) “Selection does _not_ [my italics] bring about transgressive variation in a general population....” (PROFESSOR MORGAN, Professor of Experimental Zoology at University of Columbia, writing in 1919.) “Animals and plants would have developed much as they did even had no struggle for existence taken place....” (NÄGELI.)