Note A — Chapter I · THE SECRET OF DARWIN’S GREATNESS.

See Professor Meldola’s interesting Presidential Address to the Entomological Society of London (January, 1896) on the use of the imagination in science, printed in the Transactions of the Society and in Nature. See also “The Advancement of Science” (London, 1890), in which Professor Lankester maintains (p. 4): “All true science deals with speculation and hypothesis, and acknowledges as its most valued servant—its indispensable ally and helpmeet—that which our German friends call ‘Phantasie’ and we ‘the Imagination.’” Consult also Professor Tyndall’s essay “On the Scientific Use of the Imagination” (“Fragments of Science,” 1889, vol. ii., p. 101).