On the International Society of Zoological Sciences: reflections upon a momentous decade

Those of us who are fortunate enough to have the passion and wherewithal to study nature will reflect,with pleasure,upon these words:“I can see(no limit)to the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations between all organic beings,one with another and with their physical conditions of life”(Darwin,On the Ori­gin of Species,1859).Darwin is the founder of modern biology,but his awe of nature had genesis not in isola­tion but in the formative world of other enlightened sci­entists.In the same manner.