E-text prepared by Brownfox and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31316-h.htm or 31316-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31316/pg31316-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31316/31316-h.zip) The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature THE COMING OF EVOLUTION Cambridge University Press London: Fetter Lane, E.C. C. F. Clay, Manager [Illustration] Edinburgh: 100, Princes Street London: H. K. Lewis, 136, Gower Street, W.C. Berlin: A. Asher and Co. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons Bombay and Calcutta: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. All rights reserved [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 _With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot, the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521_ 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 20 V. The Revolt of Scrope and Lyell against Catastrophism 33 VI. _The Principles of Geology_ 55 VII. The Influence of Lyell's Works 68 VIII. Early Attempts to establish the Doctrine of Evolution for the Organic World 82 IX. Darwin and Wallace: The Theory of Natural Selection 95 X. _The Origin of Species_ 115 XI. The Influence of Darwin's Works 136 XII. The Place of Lyell and Darwin in History 149 Notes 160 Index 165 PLATES Charles Darwin _Frontispiece_ G. Poulett Scrope _to face p. 35_ Charles Lyell " " 41 Alfred R. Wallace " " 110 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY