Facts and Arguments for Darwin

and Arguments for Darwin, by
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FACTS AND ARGUMENTS
FOR
DARWIN.
BY FRITZ MULLER.

WITH ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY W.S. DALLAS, F.L.S.,
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TO THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
LONDON.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1869.

MR. DARWIN'S WORKS.
A NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; BEING A
JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY
AND GEOLOGY OF COUNTRIES VISITED. Post 8vo. 9 shillings.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, BY MEANS OF NATURAL
SELECTION; OR, THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES
IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. WOODCUTS. Post 8vo. 15
shillings.
THE VARIOUS CONTRIVANCES BY WHICH BRITISH AND
FOREIGN ORCHIDS ARE FERTILISED BY INSECTS, AND ON
THE GOOD EFFECTS OF INTERCROSSING. Woodcuts, Post 8vo. 9
shillings.
THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER
DOMESTICATION. Illustrations. 2 volumes, 8vo. 28 shillings.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
My principal reason for undertaking the translation of Dr. Fritz Muller's
admirable work on the Crustacea, entitled 'Fur Darwin,' was that it was
still, although published as long ago as 1864, and highly esteemed by
the author's scientific countrymen, absolutely unknown to a great
number of English naturalists, including some who have occupied
themselves more or less specially with the subjects of which it treats. It
possesses a value quite independent of its reference to Darwinism, due
to the number of highly interesting and important facts in the natural
history and particularly the developmental history of the Crustacea,
which its distinguished author, himself an unwearied and original
investigator of these matters, has brought together in it. To a

considerable section of English naturalists the tone adopted by the
author in speaking of one of the greatest of their number will be a
source of much gratification.
In granting his permission for the translation of his little book, Dr. Fritz
Muller kindly offered to send some emendations and additions to
certain parts of it. His notes included many corrections of printers'
errors, some of which would have proved unintelligible without his aid,
some small additions and notes which have been inserted in their
proper places, and two longer pieces, one forming a footnote near the
close of
Chapter 11
, the other at the end of Chapter 12, describing the probable mode of
evolution of the Rhizocephala from the Cirripedia.
Of the execution of the translation I will say but little. My chief object
in this, as in other cases, has been to furnish, as nearly as possible, a
literal version of the original, regarding mere elegance of expression as
of secondary importance in a scientific work. As much of Dr. Muller's
German does not submit itself to such treatment very readily, I must
beg his and the reader's indulgence for any imperfections arising from
this cause.
W.S.D.
LONDON, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1869.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
It is not the purpose of the following pages to discuss once more the
arguments deduced for and against Darwin's theory of the origin of
species, or to weigh them one against the other. Their object is simply
to indicate a few facts favourable to this theory, collected upon the
same South American ground, on which, as Darwin tells us, the idea

first occurred to him of devoting his attention to "the origin of
species,--that mystery of mysteries."
It is only by the accumulation of new and valuable material that the
controversy will gradually be brought into a state fit for final decision,
and this appears to be for the present of more importance than a
repeated analysis of what is already