Life and Evolution

Abstract

THIS well-illustrated and attractive volume, according to the preface, is the final form assumed by a series of lectures delivered before the members of the Haileybury Natural Science Society, the great majority of whom are scholars at the famous Hertfordshire school. From the very nature of the case it aims, therefore, at being intelligible to readers unprovided with a large store of scientific knowledge of their own. It will be equally self-evident that it does not lay claim to be a new gospel. Rather is it an attempt, if we rightly understand its purport, to place before that section of the public which possesses a thirst for scientific knowledge a clear idea of the general structure and mutual relationships of the leading groups of animals and their adaptations to various modes of life, to show in what respects animals resemble and differ from plants, and how to distinguish between these two great primary groups of organisms, and, finally, to attempt a solution of the riddle of the evolution of organic life and of the human intellect.

Life and Evolution.

By F. W. Headley. Pp. xvi + 277; illustrated. (London: Duckworth and Co., 1906.) Price 8s. net.