Title: The Difficulties of Evolution, Being the First of Two Lectures ... to the Dunedin Young Men’s Christian Association ... on 8th of August, 1881

Author: John Aitken Connell

In: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 46

Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Library, Wellington

Part of: The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Preface.

The following Lecture was delivered at the request of the Board of Management of the Dunedin Young Men's Christian Association of Dunedin.

The lecturer does not lay any claim to have done more than collected within a comparatively small compass a statement of some of the more remarkable facts which appear to operate against the doctrine of the derivation of species from preceding forms on the hypothesis of Evolution.

The first lecture comprises only a part of the field, being altogether taken up with the difficulties which lie within the view of the Biologist and Palæntologist. He has been requested by a number of those who heard the lectures to publish them, and sends the first forth alone, in order to ascertain whether there is any demand for them. Should this lecture find readers, the second will be published, which deals with other and interesting branches of the subject, including the doctrine of spontaneous generation, and Evolution as applied to Man.