... fertilization," and the demonstration of the principle, belong to our age, and to Mr. Darwin. To have originated this, and alsothe principle of natural selection the truthfulness and importance ... secret to Solander and Ellis a hundred years ago, and doubtless to John Bartram,our botanical pioneer, its C probable discoverer, who sent it to Europe. Ellis, in his published letter to Linnaeus, ... its situation will be seen to stand unsteadily; it totters for a few seconds, slips, and falls to the bottom of the tube, where it is either drowned or attempts in vain to ascend against the points...