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“THE great biological question of the day is the problem of evolution; but geologists, as Kant says, are the archæologists of nature, and the sole direct and irrefragable evidence of the method whereby living things have become what they are is to be sought among fossil remains.” Such were the words spoken by Prof.; Huxley on a recent occasion, when receiving from the hands of the president of the Geological Society the, Wollaston medal; and the assembled geologists, calling to mind his masterly review of the whole question in his address to them in 1870, rejoiced to hear their former president expressing the hope that much of his future, labour would be concentrated on this all-important palæontological problem.
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JUDD, J. Palæontology and the Doctrine of Descent . Nature 14, 275–276 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014275a0
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