The Apparition and Succession of Animal Forms
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THE EMINENT SWISS AND AMERICAN ZOOLOGIST
LOUIS AGASSIZ,
The Founder of the Modern School of American Biology,
and of
SIR RICHARD OWEN,
A Great and Philosophical Naturalist,
to whose Teaching I and very many Others owe our earliest
introduction to the Principle of Homology
in the Animal Kingdom.
Modern Ideas of Derivation—Development of Animal Forms in Time—Various Theories of Derivation—History of Organic Types—History of Organs—Testimony of the Geological Record—Laws of the Succession Development and Evolution—Evolutionist Theologians