Abstract
DR. REMIGIUS STÖLZLE, professor of philosophy in the University of Würzburg, has paid his illustrious scientific colleague A. von Kölliker a great compliment. He has dissected Kölliker's works, and separated the wheat from the chaff, as he did not long ago in the case of Karl Ernst von Baer. The analysis of nine important works, from an article on Darwinism in 1864 to the veteran's interesting “Erinnerungen”in 1899, is careful and scholarly, and the critical exposition is arranged so clearly that the reader can find out at once what Kölliker thought about variation, heredity, natural selection, or the like. While the author has very strong convictions, he expresses these with a dignified restraint, and says nothing harder against naturalists than that it is a pity to be too busy to take advantage of philosophical discipline. For those who are fond of argument the book will serve as an interesting introduction to the problems of organic evolution.
A. von Kölliker's Stellung zur Descendenzlehre.
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte moderner Naturphilosophie. Von Dr. Remigius Stölzle. Pp. 172. (Aschendorffsche Buchhandlung, Münster i. W., 1901). Price Mk. 2.
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T., J. A von Kölliker's Stellung zur Descendenzlehre . Nature 65, 76–77 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065076a0
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