xv, 3, Migne, tome cxcii, p.

682; for Wesley, Clarke, and Watson, see quotations from them and notes thereto in my chapter on Geology; for St.Augustine on "superfluous animals," see the De Genesi, lib.

i, cap.

xvi, 26; on Luther's view of flies, see the Table Talk and his famous utterance, "Odio muscas quia sunt imagines diaboli et hoereticorum"; for the agency of Aristotle and Plato in fastening the belief in the fixity of species into Christian theology, see Sachs, Geschichte der Botanik, Munchen, 1875, p.

107 and note, also p.