THE HISTORY OF CREATION:
OR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH AND ITS
INHABITANTS BY THE ACTION OF NATURAL CAUSES.
A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF
THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION IN GENERAL, AND THAT OF
DARWIN, GOETHE, AND LAMARCK IN PARTICULAR.
From the German of
ERNST HAECKEL
Professor in the University of Jena.
The Translation Revised by
Professor E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., F.R.S.,
Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
In Two Volumes
New York:
D. APPELTON AND COMPANY
1876
Illustrated
Octavo: 5 by 8"
[xix] 374pp [14pp ads] (Vol.1),
[vii] 408pp [4pp. ads] (Vol.2)
Green cloth, gilt title on spine.
Some wear of the spines, otherwise near fine.

Ernst Haeckel was a key supporter of the theories of Darwin. Noting that: “this solid and tangible piece of evidence in favour of the common descent of different species ought, one would think, to satisfy the most determined skeptic!”



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