“The Life and Works of Darwin” was an address delivered at Columbia
University on February 12, 1909, the hundredth anniversary of Darwin’s
birth, as the first of a series of nine lectures on Charles Darwin and
his influence on science. “The Darwin Centenary” is based on an address
in reply to the reception of delegates at Cambridge. “A Student’s
Reminiscences of Huxley” was a lecture delivered at the Marine
Biological Laboratory of Wood’s Hole in the summer session of 1895. The
address on James Bryce was delivered at the memorial service to Viscount
Bryce at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, March 5, 1922. The
address on Joseph Leidy was originally delivered at the Joseph Leidy
Centenary, Philadelphia, December 6, 1923, and was later published in
Science. The article on Howard Crosby Butler was an address delivered at
the Graduate College of Princeton University, October 31, 1922. This
address was afterward published in the Butler memorial volume by the
Princeton University Press. The chapter on John Burroughs is an address
which was delivered at the John Burroughs memorial meeting, American
Academy of Arts and Letters, on November 18, 1921.
Other chapters of this book are based on articles published in the
following magazines: _Popular Science Monthly_, _Science_, _The
Century_, _The Sierra Club Bulletin_.
[Illustration:
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
]
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
1823–1913
I never had the pleasure of meeting Wallace, but I felt rewarded for
the time I devoted to the study of his works and the influences which
shaped his great career in preparing this Impression by his letter of
acknowledgment, which is reproduced in facsimile. Wallace was a great
man, although he was overshadowed by a much greater man, Darwin. The
scientific relations of these two men were ideal; their magnanimity
toward each other in the crisis of independent discovery of the great
principle of Natural Selection is one of the noblest episodes in the
history of biology.