[126] _Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière._ 1st edition. Imprimerie royale. Paris: 1749-1804, 44 vols. 4to. Tome iv., p. 357. This is the best of all the editions of Buffon, says Flourens, from whose _Histoire des Travaux et des Idées de Buffon_, 1st edition (Paris, 1844), we take some of the quotations and references, which, however, we have verified. We have also quoted some passages from Buffon translated by Butler in his "Evolution, Old and New" (London, 1879). [127] _L. c._, tome iv., p. 384 (1753). This is the first volume on the animals below man. [128] Tome xi., p. 369 (1764). [129] Tome xii., p. 3 (1764). [130] Tome v., p. 59 (1755). [131] Tome xiii., p. vii. (1765). [132] Osborn adopts, without warrant we think, Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire's notion, stating that he "shows clearly that his opinions marked three periods." The writings of Isidore, the son of Étienne Geoffroy, have not the vigor, exactness, or depth of those of his father. [133] Tome xiv., p. 326 (1766). [134] Tome vi., pp. 59-60 (1756). [135] Butler, _l. c._, pp. 145-146. [136] Tome ix., p. 127, 1761 (_ex_ Butler). [137] Tome ix., p. 127, 1761 (_ex_ Butler). [138] Tome vi., p. 252, 1756 (quoted from Butler, _l. c._, pp. 123-126). [139] Quoted from Osborn, who takes it from De Lanessan. [140] Butler, _l. c._, p. 122 (from Buffon, tome v., 1755). [141] Tome xiv., p. 335 (1766). [142] Tome i., p. 13. [143] Tome xiv., p. 358. [144] Tome xiii., p. i. [145] Tome xiii., p. ix. [146] _Études progressives d'un Naturaliste_, etc., 1835, p. 107. [147] _Ibid._ [148] _Sur l'Influence du Monde ambiant pour modifier les Formes animaux (Mémoires Acad. Sciences_, xii., 1833, pp. 63, 75). [149] _Recherches sur l'Organisation des Gavials (Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle_), xii., p. 97 (1825). [150] _Sur l'Influence du Monde ambiant_, p. 74. [151] _Dictionnaire de la Conversation_, xxxi., p. 487, 1836 (quoted by I. Geoffroy St. Hilaire); _Histoire nat. gén. des Règnes organiques_, ii., 2^e partie; also _Résumé_, p. 30 (1859). CHAPTER XIV THE VIEWS OF ERASMUS DARWIN