Abstract
I HAVE only just read the memoir of Sir Edward Fry in the January number of the Monthly Review on “The Age of the Inhabited World.” With its general purport I am in sympathy, and I rejoice in the opportunity of offering a tribute of praise to the extreme lucidity of the language in which it is expressed; but for those very reasons I desire to protest against one of his arguments, which seems to me so faulty as to seriously compromise the value of the memoir as a whole. He is endeavouring to show that natural selection is incapable of doing much that has been accredited to its agency, and uses, p. 78, these words in respect to mimetic insects:—
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