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Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

"Essays on Life, Art and Science"


{21} "Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle," iii. p. 237.
{22} "Luck, or Cunning, as the main means of Organic Modification?"
(Longmans), pp. 179, 180.
{23} Journals of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology,
vol. iii.), 1859, p. 61.
{24} "Darwinism" (Macmillan, 1889), p. 129.
{25} Longmans, 1890, p. 376.
{26} See Nature, March 6, 1890.
{27} "Origin of Species," sixth edition, 1888, vol. i. p. 168.
{28} "Origin of Species," sixth edition, 1888, vol. ii. p. 261.
{29} Mr. J. T. Cunningham, of the Marine Biological Laboratory,
Plymouth, has called my attention to the fact that I have ascribed
to Professor Ray Lankester a criticism on Mr. Wallace's remarks upon
the eyes of certain fiat-fish, which Professor Ray Lankester was, in
reality, only adopting--with full acknowledgment--from Mr.
Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham has left it to me whether to correct my
omission publicly or not, but he would so plainly prefer my doing so
that I consider myself bound to insert this note. Curiously enough
I find that in my book "Evolution Old and New," I gave what Lamarck
actually said upon the eyes of flat-fish, and having been led to
return to the subject, I may as well quote his words. He wrote:-
"Need--always occasioned by the circumstances in which an animal is
placed, and followed by sustained efforts at gratification--can not
only modify an organ--that is to say, augment or reduce it--but can
change its position when the case requires its removal.


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