ng in Darwinism will,
I doubt not, lead ere long to a consideration of Professor Hering's
theory. English biologists are little likely to find Weismann
satisfactory for long, and if he breaks down there is nothing left
for them but Lamarck, supplemented by the important and elucidatory
corollary on his theory proposed by Professor Hering. When the time
arrives for this to obtain a hearing it will be confirmed,
doubtless, by arguments clearer and more forcible than any I have
been able to adduce; I shall then be delighted to resign the
championship which till then I shall continue, as for some years
past, to have much pleasure in sustaining. Heretofore my
satisfaction has mainly lain in the fact that more of our prominent
men of science have seemed anxious to claim the theory than to
refute it; in the confidence thus engendered I leave it to any
fuller consideration which the outline I have above given may
incline the reader to bestow upon it.

Footnotes:

{19} I am indebted to one of Butler's contemporaries at Cambridge,
the Rev Dr. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., and also to Mr. John F. Harris,
both of St. John's College, for help in finding and dating Butler's
youthful contributions to the Eagle.

{20} This gentleman, on the death of his father in 1866, became the
Rev. Sir Philip Perring, Bart.

{22} The late Sir Julius von Haast, K.C.M.G., appointed Provincial
Geologist in 1860, was ennobled by the Austrian Government and
knighted by the British. He died in 1887.

{59} A lecture delivered at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond
Street, 30th January, 1892.

{99} Published in the Universal Review, July, 1888.

{110} Published in the Universal Review, December, 1890.

{127} Published in the Universal Review, May, 1889. As I have
several times been asked if the letters here reprinted were not
fabricated by Butler himself, I take this opportunity of stating
that they are authentic in every particular, and that the originals
are now in my possession.--R. A. S.

{142} An address delivered at the Somerville Club, February 27th,
1895.

{150} The Foundations of Belief, by the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour.
Longmans, 1895, p. 48.

{153a} Published in the Universal Review, November, 1888.

{153b} Since this essay was written it has been ascertained by
Cavaliere Francesco Negri, of Casale Monferrato, that Tabachetti
died in 1615. If, therefore, the Sanctuary of Montrigone was not
founded until 163