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• Evolution, Old and New: or, The Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, As Compared With That of Charles Darwin (New York: E. P.Dutton and Co., ca. 1911), by Samuel Butler, ed. by R. A. Streatfeild (Gutenberg text)
• Last Words on Evolution: A Popular Retrospect and Summary (London: A. Owen and Co., 1906), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
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• The Story of Evolution, by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg text)
• Haeckel: His Life and Work (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), by Wilhelm Bölsche, trans. by Joseph McCabe
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• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution (Murray, 1909), by Robert Heath Lock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• God and creation ... (The Macmillan Company, 1934), by John Elof Boodin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haeckel, his life and work (T.F. Unwin, 1906), by Wilhelm Bölsche and Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley. With an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement. (D. Appleton and Company, 1897), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming of evolution (The University press, 1910), by John W. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Greeks to Darwin; an outline of the development of the evolution idea. (Macmillan, 1894), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development and evolution, including psychophysical evolution, evolution by orthoplasy, and the theory of genetic modes (Macmillan Co., 1902), by James Mark Baldwin, H. W. Conn, F. W. Headley, Edward Bagnall Poulton, C. Lloyd Morgan, and Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution, old & new; or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin (E. P. Dutton & company, 1914), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die griechischer vorgänger Darwin's. (Buchdruckerei der Königl. Akademie der wissenschaften (G. Vogt), in commission bei F. Dummler's verlags-buchhandlung (Harrwitz und Gossmann), 1878), by Eduard Zeller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haeckel; his life and work. (Jacobs, 1906), by Wilhelm Bölsche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution, The stone book, and The Mosaic record of creation [three lectures] (Hodder and Stoughton, 1878), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last words on evolution; a popular retrospect and summary (P. Eckler, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel and Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Greeks to Darwin : an outline of the development of the evolution idea (Macmillan, 1913), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Kampf um den Entwickelungs-Gedanken. Drei Vorträge, gehalten am 14., 16. und 19. April 1905 im Saale der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (G. Reimer, 1905), by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. (E. P. Dutton, 1911), by Robert Heath Lock and William B. Provine Collection on Evolution and Genetics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution (E. P. Dutton and company, 1909), by Robert Heath Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming of evolution : the story of a great revolution in science (The University Press, 1912), by John Wesley Judd (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Greeks to Darwin; an outline of the development of the evolution idea (Macmillan, 1908), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin (Fifield, 1911), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darwin et ses précurseurs français; étude sur le transformisme (G. Baillière, 1892), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Darwin und sein Verhältnis zu Deutschland (E. Günther, 1887), by Ernst Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der gegenwärtige Stand der Abstammungslehre : ein populär-wissenschaftlicher Vortrag und zugleich ein Wort gegen Joh. Reinke (B.G. Teubner, 1909), by Ludwig Plate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From the Greeks to Darwin: an outline of the development of the evolution idea. (Macmillan, 1902), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Greeks to Darwin : an outline of the development of the evolution idea (Macmillan, 1896), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement (Cassell, 1907), by Edward Clodd, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Last words on evolution; a popular retrospect and summary (Eckler, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français : étude sur le transformisme (G. Baillière ;, 1870), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)
• Last words on evolution; a popular retrospect and summary (P. Eckler, 1906), by Ernst Haeckel and Joseph McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming of evolution; the story of a great revolution in science (The University Press, 1919), by John W. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler : a step towards reconciliation (A. C. Fifield, 1911), by Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, and Charles Darwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evolution, old & new (E. P. Dutton & company, 1914), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution (J. Murray, 1916), by Robert Heath Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entstehung der organischen Natur nach Schelling, Darwin und Wundt : eine Untersuchung über den Entwicklungsgedanken (G. Pätz'sche, 1916), by Carl Ihmels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement (G. Richards, 1897), by Edward Clodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of Edward S. Morse, president of the American association for the advancement of science. Delivered at the New York meeting, August, 1887. (Salem Press, 1887), by Edward Sylvester Morse and American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Greeks to Darwin; an outline of the development of the evolution idea (Macmillan, 1899), by Henry Fairfield Osborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution, old and new : or, the theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin (E.P. Dutton, 1911), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur les ouvrages et la vie de M. Le B.on Cuvier (F. G. Levrault, 1833), by G. L. Duvernoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evolution ; The stone book ; and, The Mosaic record of creation (Cranston and Curts, 1893), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming of evolution; the story of a great revolution in science (The University Press, 1925), by John W. Judd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Darwin's Metaphor: Nature's Place in Victorian Culture, by Robert M. Young (HTML in the UK)
• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution (Dutton, 1916), by Robert Heath Lock, Bella Sidney Woolf, and Leonard Doncaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Descendenzgedanke und seine Geschichte vom Altertum bis zur Neuzeit. (E. Reinhardt, 1903), by Edgar Dacqué (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement (Cassell, 1907), by Edward Clodd, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution (J. Murray, 1911), by Robert Heath Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haeckel : $b his life and work, by Wilhelm Bölsche, trans. by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley: With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement, by Edward Clodd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science, by John W. Judd (Gutenberg ebook)

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