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Dent especially from his History of Botany and from the first edition of
his Handbook of Botany. Soon, however, Sachs began to incline toward the
position assumed by Naegeli; and as early as 1877, Wigand, in the third
volume of his great work, expressed the hope that Sachs would withdraw
still further from Darwinism. As years went by, Sachs drifted more and
more from his earlier position, and Wigand was of opinion that to
himself should be ascribed the credit of bringing about the change.
During his last years Sachs had become bitterly opposed to Darwinism,
and in his masterly "Physiological Notes" he took a firm stand on the
"internal factors of evolution." During recent years I had the pleasure
of occasional correspondence with Sachs. On the 16th of September, 1896,
he wrote me: For more than twenty years I have recognized that if we are
to build up a strictly scientific theory of organic structural
processes, we must separate the doctrine of Descent from Darwinism. It
was with this intention that he worked during the last years of his life
and it is to be hoped that his school will continue his researches with
this aim in view. The tendency among naturalists to return to Wigand is
well exemplified in an ar