Impressions of great naturalists

MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE THE AGE OF MAMMALS EVOLUTION OF MAMMALIAN MOLAR TEETH FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN EVOLUTION AND RELIGION HUXLEY AND EDUCA...

From these impressions of the lives of many naturalists we see that the naturalist is animated first of all by the joy of observation, without initial hope or thought of discove...

The distinctive features of the later development of the theory in Wallace’s mind were his more implicit faith in selection, his insistence on utility or selection value of new...

As time advanced the prison gave way to the milder but effective weapons of ostracism and loss of position. In biology Linnæus, Buffon, Lamarck, St. Hilaire, in turn discovered...

On this centenary when we are honoring Darwin, many may ask, exactly what is Darwinism? Failure to know leads some to doubt, others to predict a decline, especially where “the w...

Huxley was not always fortunate in the intellectual caliber of the men to whom he lectured in the Royal College of Science. Many of the younger generation were studying in the u...

About a year ago came the sad news of the sudden death of Professor Balfour, of Cambridge. If the loss was felt less severely in this country than in England it was only because...

... He thus made reply: “Philosophy, to an attentive ear, Clearly points out, not in one part alone, How imitative Nature takes her course From the celestial Mind, and from its...

We are rewriting this beautiful Greek verse in the immortality of Leidy’s work, and we are holding up his example for the prevailing spirit of truthfulness, which is, after all,...

My memory is that I was one of the group who founded the Linnæan Society, although it was then a very small society and my part was humble and inconspicuous. As a boy I worked i...

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit’s e...

G. BROWN GOODE, Zoologist. “Goode as a Naturalist.” Address at the G. Brown Goode Memorial Meeting, U. S. National Museum, February 13. _Science_, N. S., vol. 5, no. 114, March...