Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1915 — Modern Zoology. [ARTICLE]

Modern Zoology.

In his presidential address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, now printed in Science, Dr. Edmund B. Wilson of Columbia university discussed the more pressing problems of modern zoology. In regard to Darwinism, he said: "Undeniably there is a large measure of truth in the contention that natural selection belongs rather to the philosophy than to the science of biology. In spite of many important experimental and critical studies on the subject Darwin’s conception still remains today in the main what It was in his own time, a theory, a logical construction, based it is true on a' multitude ot facts, yet still awaiting adequate experimental test. Simple though the principle is, its actual effect in nature is determined by conditions that are too intricate and operate through periods too great to be duplicated in the experimental laboratory. Hence it is that even after more than fifty years of Darwinism the time has not yet come for a true estimate of Darwin’s proposed solution of the great problem.”