The coming of evolution : the story of a great revolution in science / by John W. Judd.

  • Judd, John W. (John Wesley), 1840-1916.
Date:
1910
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    task of presenting his views in a popular form would be aided by his having to expound them to a miscel- laneous audience. For two years, these lectures were delivered, and attracted much attention; the favourable impressions produced by them on a man of the world have been recorded by Abraham Hayward, and on more scientific thinkers by Harriet Martineau. The third volume of the Principles was not completed till a second edition of the second volume had been issued. This third volume, appearing in May 1833, dealt with the classification of the Tertiary strata, to which Lyell had devoted so much labour, studying conchology under Deshayes, and visiting all the chief Tertiary deposits of Europe for the collec- tion of materials. The application of the principles enunciated in the two earlier volumes to the un- ravelling of the past history of the globe, constituted the chief task undertaken in this part of the great work. But not a few controversial questions were dealt with, and the famous ‘metamorphic theory’ was advanced in opposition to the Wernerian hypo- thesis of ‘primitive formations.’ The volume was appropriately dedicated to Murchison, who had been Lyell’s companion in the famous Auvergne excursion, which had produced such an effect on his mind. Within a twelvemonth, a third edition of the whole work in four small volumes was issued, and in the end no less than twelve editions of the Principles