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Title: The Doctrine of Evolution
Its Basis and Its Scope

Author: Henry Edward Crampton

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Columbia University Lectures

THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION

THE HEWITT LECTURES

1906-1907

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
SALES AGENTS

NEW YORK:
LEMCKE & BUECHNER
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LONDON:
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_COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES_

THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION

ITS BASIS AND ITS SCOPE

BY

HENRY EDWARD CRAMPTON, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ZOOeLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

New York

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

1916

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1911,

By THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1911.
Reprinted December, 1912; September, 1916.

Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

The present volume consists of a series of eight addresses delivered as
the Hewitt Lectures of Columbia University at Cooper Union in New York
City during the months of February and March, 1907. The purpose of these
lectures was to describe