of the third edition.

It is therefore easy to understand how he came to overlook the passage on page 242 when he began the fuller statement of his species theory which is referred to in the "Life and Letters" as the "unfinished book." In the historical sketch prefixed to the "Origin of Species" writers are named as precursors whose claims are less strong than Prichard's, and it is certain that Mr.Darwin would have given an account of him if he had thought of him as an evolutionist.
The two following passages will show that Mr.Darwin was, from his knowledge of Prichard's books, justified in classing him among those who did not believe in the mutability of species: "The various tribes of organised beings were originally placed by the Creator in certain regions, for which they are by their nature peculiarly adapted.

Each species had only one beginning in a single stock: probably a single pair, as Linnaeus supposed, was first called into being in some particular spot, and the progeny left to disperse themselves to as great a distance from the original centre of their existence as the locomotive powers bestowed on them, or their capability of bearing changes of climate and other physical agencies, may have enabled them to wander." (14/9.

Prichard, third edition, 1836-7, Volume I., page 96.) The second passage is annotated by Mr.Darwin with a shower of exclamation marks: "The meaning attached to the term SPECIES in natural history is very definite and intelligible.

It includes only the following conditions--namely, separate origin and distinctness of race, evinced by the constant transmission of some characteristic peculiarity of organisation.