DARWINISM TO-DAY
By Prof.Vernon L. Kellogg, of Leland Stanford University Author of "American Insects," etc. 395 pp. and index. 8vo. $2.00 net; by mail, $2.15.
A simple and concise discussion for the educated layman of present-day scientific criticism of the Darwinian selection theories, together with concise accounts of the other more important proposed auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming. With special notes and exact references to original sources and to the author's own observations and experiments.
"Its value cannot be overestimated. A book the student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the scattered literature of this vast subject, and none has subjected this literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly criticism. Pledged to no theory of his own, and an investigator of the first rank, and master of a clear and forceful literary style, Professor Kellogg is especially well fitted to do justice to the many phases of present-day Darwinism."—David Starr JordaninThe Dial."May be unhesitatingly recommended to the student of biology as well as to the non-professional or even non-biological reader of intelligence ... gives a full, concise, fair and very readable exposition of the present status of evolution."—The Independent."Can write in English as brightly and as clearly as the old-time Frenchmen ... a book that the ordinary reader can read with thorough enjoyment and understanding and that the specialist can turn to with profit as well ... in his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires. The whole matter is thoroughly digested and put in an absolutely intelligible manner ... a brilliant book that deserves general attention."—New York Sun."The balance-sheet of Darwinism is struck in this work ... the attack and the defense of Darwinism, well summarized ... the value of this book lies in its summing up of the Darwinian doctrines as they have been modified or verified down to date."—Literary Digest.
"Its value cannot be overestimated. A book the student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the scattered literature of this vast subject, and none has subjected this literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly criticism. Pledged to no theory of his own, and an investigator of the first rank, and master of a clear and forceful literary style, Professor Kellogg is especially well fitted to do justice to the many phases of present-day Darwinism."—David Starr JordaninThe Dial.
"May be unhesitatingly recommended to the student of biology as well as to the non-professional or even non-biological reader of intelligence ... gives a full, concise, fair and very readable exposition of the present status of evolution."—The Independent.
"Can write in English as brightly and as clearly as the old-time Frenchmen ... a book that the ordinary reader can read with thorough enjoyment and understanding and that the specialist can turn to with profit as well ... in his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires. The whole matter is thoroughly digested and put in an absolutely intelligible manner ... a brilliant book that deserves general attention."—New York Sun.
"The balance-sheet of Darwinism is struck in this work ... the attack and the defense of Darwinism, well summarized ... the value of this book lies in its summing up of the Darwinian doctrines as they have been modified or verified down to date."—Literary Digest.
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AMERICAN INSECTS, byVernon L. Kellogg, Professor in the Leland Stanford Junior University. $5.00 net; carriage extra.
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BIRDS OF THE WORLD.A popular account byFrank H. Knowlton, M.S., Ph.D., Member American Ornithologists Union, President Biological Society of Washington, etc., etc., with Chapter on Anatomy of Birds byFrederic A. Lucas, Chief Curator Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences, and edited byRobert Ridgway, Curator of Birds, U.S. National Museum.
REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS, byLeonhard Steineger, Curator of Reptiles, U.S. National Museum.
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THE FISH: ITS FORM AND FUNCTION, byH.M. Smith, of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.
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PHOTOGRAPHING NATURE, byE.R. Sanborn, Photographer of the New York Zoological Park.
THE SHELLFISH INDUSTRIES, byJames L. Kellogg, Professor in Williams College.
CHEMISTRY OF DAILY LIFE, byHenry P. Talbot, Professor of Chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DOMESTIC ANIMALS, byWilliam H. Brewer, Professor Emeritus in Yale University.
THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN, STREET AND PARK, byB.E. Fernow, Professor of Forestry in the University of Toronto.
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FISH STORIES, byDavid Starr JordanandCharles F. Holder.HORSE TALK, byWilliam H. Brewer.BIRD NOTES, byC.W. Beebe.INSECT STORIES, byVernon L. Kellogg.
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A Series of volumes by PresidentJordan, of Stanford University, and ProfessorsBrooksof Johns Hopkins,Lullof Yale,Thomsonof Aberdeen,Przibramof Austria,zur Strassenof Germany, and others. Edited by ProfessorKelloggof Leland Stanford. 12mo. 5-1/8 × 7½ in.
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