Botany School, Cambridge, March 20, 1909.
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO THE EDITOR from SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, O.M.
II. DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS: J. ARTHUR THOMSON, Professor of Natural
History in the University of Aberdeen.
III. THE SELECTION THEORY: AUGUST WEISMANN, Professor of Zoology in the
University of Freiburg (Baden).
IV. VARIATION: HUGO DE VRIES, Professor of Botany in the University of
Amsterdam.
V. HEREDITY AND VARIATION IN MODERN LIGHTS: W. BATESON, Professor of
Biology in the University of Cambridge.
VI. THE MINUTE STRUCTURE OF CELLS IN RELATION TO HEREDITY: EDUARD
STRASBURGER, Professor of Botany in the University of Bonn.
VII. "THE DESCENT OF MAN": G. SCHWALBE, Professor of Anatomy in the
University of Strassburg.
VIII. CHARLES DARWIN AS AN ANTHROPOLOGIST: ERNST HAECKEL, Professor of
Zoology in the University of Jena.
IX. SOME PRIMITIVE THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN: J.G. FRAZER, Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge.
X. THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN ON THE STUDY OF ANIMAL EMBRYOLOGY: A.
SEDGWICK, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University
of Cambridge.
XI. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. I. ANIMALS: W.B. SCOTT, Professor of
Geology in the University of Princeton.
XII. THE PALAEONTOLOGICAL RECORD. II. PLANTS: D.H. SCOTT, President of
the Linnean Society of London.
XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON THE FORMS OF PLANTS: GEORG KLEBS,
Professor of Botany in the University of Heidelberg.
XIV. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON ANIMALS:
JACQUES LOEB, Professor of Physiology in the University of California.
XV. THE VALUE OF COLOUR IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE: E.B. POULTON, Hope
Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford.