Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 66: July, August, September, 1860
Observation of animals in a state of nature is required to show their degree of plasticity, or the extent to which varieties do arise: whereby grounds may be had for judging of tho proba bility of the elastic ligaments and joint-strnctures of a feline foot, for example, being superinduced upon the more simple structure of the toe with the non-retractile claw, according to the prin ciple of a succession of varieties in time.
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