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DR. HENRY DE VARIGNY has enriched the literature of biology by publishing in the “Nature Series” the lectures on “Experimental Evolution” delivered by him in 1891 to the Summer School of Art and Science in Edinburgh. This school, as is well known, has been doing good work on Extension lines in Edinburgh, and Prof. Geddes is to be congratulated on having secured the co-operation of so able a biologist and so lucid an exponent of the special aspects of biology with which he has identified himself as M. de Varigny. The lectures are well worthy of publication, for they contain a rich, well-ordered, and, for the most part, well-sifted body of facts collected from many sources, and especially from the publications of French naturalists. But the author is more than a collector of facts recorded by other workers; he is himself a worker in this special field of biological science. And some of the most valuable of the observations contained in the work are the result of his own careful and exact investigations.
Experimental Evolution.
By Henry de Varigny, D.Sc. (London: Macmillan, 1892.)
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M., C. Experimental Biology. Nature 47, 25–26 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047025a0
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