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Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray
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Species contrasted with those of De Candolle and others--Definition of
Species--Whether its Essence is in the Likeness
or in the Genealogical Connection of the Individuals composing a Species


ARTICLE V

SEQUOIA AND ITS HISTORY:
THE RELATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN
TO NORTHEAST ASIAN AND TO
TERTIARY VEGETATION

Age and Size of Sequoia.--Isolation.--Decadence.--Related Genera.-- Former
Distribution.--Similarity between the Flora of Japan and that of the United
States, especially on the Atlantic Side.--Former Glaciation as explaining
the Present Dispersion of Species.--This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil
Flora of the Tertiary Period.--Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding
Cretaceous.--Order and Adaptation in Organic Nature likened to a
Flow.--Order implies an Ordainer


ARTICLE VI

THE ATTITUDE OF WORKING
NATURALISTS TOWARD DARWINISM

General Tendency to Acceptance of the Derivative Hypothesis noted.--Lyell,
Owen, Alphonse De Candolle, Bentham, Flower, Ailman.-- Dr. Dawson's "Story
of the Earth and Man" examined.--Difference between Scientific Men and
General Speculators or Amateurs in the
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