Note 36 — Chapter III

In an essay entitled “A Remarkable Anticipation of Modern Views on Evolution,” Professor E. B. Poulton draws attention to the ideas expressed in the first and second editions of the Researches, by Prichard, “one of the most remarkable and clear-sighted of the predecessors of Darwin and Wallace.... It is an anomaly that such works as the Vestiges should attract attention, while Prichard’s keen insight, sound judgment, and balanced reasoning on many aspects of organic evolution, and especially on the scope of heredity, should remain unknown.” Essays on Evolution, 1908, pp. 192, 175.