The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860. Various

famous principle, with an increase of potency at each dilution. Probably the supposed transmutation is per saltus. "Homoeopathic doses of transmutation," indeed! Well, if we really must swallow transmutation in some form or other, as this reviewer intimates, we might prefer the mild homoeopathic doses of Darwin's formula to the allopathic bolus which the Edinburgh general practitioner appears to be compounding.

16

Vide North American Review, for April, 1860, p. 475, and Christian Examiner, for May, p. 457.

17

Page 188, English ed.

18

In American Journal of Science, July, 1860, pp. 148, 149.

19

In Contributions to the Nat. Hist. of U. S., Vol. i. pp. 128, 129.

20

Contr. Nat. Hist. U.S., Vol. i. p. 130; and Amer.

Journal of Science, July, 1860, p. 143.