Part 10

A little extra regularity, advantageous for the saving of wax and labour, would produce the symmetrical comb of the hive-bee with its two layers of hexagonal prisms.

See ‘Principles of Biology,’ vol. i. pp. 428-431.

‘Origin of Species,’ p. 213; ‘Principles of Biology,’ vol. i. pp. 392, 394. The walking-fishes of India and the mud-fishes of Ceylon and New Zealand are described in an interesting article by Dr. Day of Torquay, in ‘All the Year Round’ for June 11th, 1870. Dr. Day seems to think the climbing powers of the anabas scandens less satisfactorily attested than other attributes of these extraordinary groups.

Carpenter, ‘Animal Physiology,’ chap. 14.

The design of this Essay was not, as has been erroneously supposed, to disprove the universality of the Deluge by help of Darwinism, but to remove one great obstacle to the general acceptance of Darwinism by disproving the universality of the Deluge. Taking the Theory of Development for granted, a recent universal Deluge would be too obviously impossible to need arguing against.

Lyell, ‘Principles of Geology,’ ii. 332.

Ibid. ii. 344.

Lyell, ii. 336.

‘The Malay Archipelago,’ vol. ii. p. 448.

‘Genesis of the Earth and of Man,’ p. 117; quoted in Sir J. Lubbock’s ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 314.

A religious and supremely orthodox poet of the last century enquires, ‘Where is the dust that has not been alive?’--Young, ‘Night Thoughts,’ Night IX, 1. 87.

‘Mushrooms and Toadstools.’--Worthington G. Smith, p. 17.

‘Genesis of the Earth and of Man,’ pp. 113, 114.

Genesis, chap. xi.

Sir John Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ pp. 338, 346, 452; Herodotus, iv. 26.

See Mill’s ‘History of British India,’ book ii. ch. i. and notes.

‘Prehistoric Man,’ Dr. Daniel Wilson, p. 101.

‘The Daughter of Galileo,’ by the author of ‘Mary Powell,’ p. 283.

‘Origin of Species,’ p. 268.

‘Good Words for the Young,’ June 1870. Animal Defences. By A. W. Drayson.

Wallace, ‘Essays on Natural Selection,’ p. 227.

‘The Spectator,’ No. 120.

‘Spectator,’ No. 121.

Nos. 156, 157.

‘Spectator,’ No. 519.

‘Natural History,’ § 985. ‘It is a common experience that dogs know the dog-killer; when, as in times of infection, some petty fellow is sent out to kill the dogs; and that though they have never seen him before, yet they will all come forth, and bark and fly at him.’

See ‘Knight’s Half-Hours with the Best Authors.’ No. 185: from ‘The Fool of Quality.’

‘Essays on Natural Selection,’ p. 248.