. Popular science monthly. of theleading articles that will appear each month. Some comments : THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW will be stronger and betterthan ever, with Colonel Harveys entire efforts in evidence. George Harvey will edit the famous NORTH AMERICAN REVIEWand will add to it various features, making it one of the new forces inAmerican life. For solid worth-while articles on subjects of national importance thereis no better periodical than THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Itmaintains its standard of excellence, and its papers are all by men distin-guished in their various lines of work. Our in
. Popular science monthly. of theleading articles that will appear each month. Some comments : THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW will be stronger and betterthan ever, with Colonel Harveys entire efforts in evidence. George Harvey will edit the famous NORTH AMERICAN REVIEWand will add to it various features, making it one of the new forces inAmerican life. For solid worth-while articles on subjects of national importance thereis no better periodical than THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. Itmaintains its standard of excellence, and its papers are all by men distin-guished in their various lines of work. Our increasing patronage and the many commendatory letters receivedfrom our subscribers are ample proof that thinking men and women areinterested in the articles and the treatment accorded them in the REVIEW. We, therefore, extend to you a cordial invitation to become a subscriber,confident that receiving the REVIEW will be to you a source of intellectualenjoyment. THE PUBLISHERS N. B.—The yearly subscription price is $ ^. THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, DECEMBER, 1913 ALFEED EF/SSEL WALLACE, 1823-19131 By Dr. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORNEESEAKCH PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY IN COLUMBIA T7NIVEKSITY ALFEED EUSSEL WALLACE, the last survivor of the great groupof British naturalists of the nineteenth century, passed away onNovember 7, 1913, in the ninety-first year of his age and the sixty-fourth year of active service and productiveness. He followed by only afew months another member of the group, Sir Joseph Hooker, whointroduced the famous Darwin-Wallace papers on Natural Selection tothe Linnsean Society in 1858. Lyell, Darwin and Wallace were three successive but closely kin-dred spirits whose work began and ended with what will be known asthe second great epoch of evolutionary thought, the first being that ofthe precursors of Darwin and the third that in which we live. Theyestablished evolution through a continued line of attack by preciselysimilar methods of observation and reasoning over an
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