Functional Organs

Abstract

IT is evident from the letter of the Duke of Argyll under this heading in your issue of August 9 (p. 341), that he has altogether misconstrued some of the main biological principles which Darwin promulgated; and it also appears as if the entire neglect of certain important items which received due consideration in the “Origin of Species” is either done with purpose, or else is simply an effect of obscuration. In either case, the fallacious interpretation may be due to the polemical style in which his Grace is usually wont to distinguish himself, and the strong bias imported into the treatment has rendered a true representation of the conclusions he assails altogether impossible.