At the outset of the article he speaks of Darwin's "seduction" of "several, perhaps the majority of our younger naturalists" by the homoeopathic form of the transmutation of species presented to them under the phrase of natural selection.... "Owen has long stated his belief that some pre-ordained law or secondary cause is operative in bringing about the change ... we therefore regard the painstaking and minute comparison by Cuvier of the osteological and every other character that could be tested in the mummified ibis, cat, or crocodile with those of species living in his time; and the equally philosophical investigation of the polyps operating at an interval of thirty thousand years in the building-up of coral reefs by the profound palæontologist of Neuchâtel (Agassiz is here referred to), as of far truer value in reference to the inductive determination of the question of the origin of species than the speculations of Demailler, Buffon, Lamarck, 'Vestiges,' Baden Powell, or Darwin" (p. 532). Entangled in the meshes of this theory of a "pre-ordained law," which seems to bear some relation to Aristotle's "perfecting principle," and is in close alliance with the teaching of the great Cuvier, at whose feet Owen had sat, he remained to the end of his life a type of arrested development. While the Church cited him as an authority against the Darwinian theory, especially in its application to man's descent, there remained in the memory of his brother savants his lack of candour in never withdrawing the statement made by him, and demonstrated by Huxley as untrue, that the "hippocampus minor" in the human brain is absent from the brain of the ape. As for the reception of the book abroad, the French savants were somewhat coy, but the Germans, with Haeckel at their head, were enthusiastic. Darwin had, like all prophets, more honour in other countries than in his own, Evolution being rechristened _Darwinismus_. Translation after translation of the Origin followed apace, and the personal interest that gathered round the central idea led to the perusal of the book by people who had never before opened a scientific treatise. Punch seized on it as subject of caricature; and writers of light verse found welcome material for "chaff" which the winds of oblivion have blown away, a stanza here and there surviving, as in Mr. Courthope's Aristophanic lines: Eggs were laid as before, but each time more and more varieties struggled and bred, Till one end of the scale dropped its ancestor's tail, and the other got rid of his head. From the bill, in brief words, were developed the Birds, unless our tame pigeons and ducks lie; From the tail and hind legs, in the second-laid eggs, the apes.--and Professor Huxley!