Re[2]: Hello

David S. Buchanan (buck353@okway.okstate.edu)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:29:53 -0600

Dennis Durst asked, in response to my initial post in which I
commented on Darwin's last line in The Origin of Species:

Which edition of the _Origin_ did you have in mind, or did
the last line remain constant throughout all editions?

I found this to be an interesting question. A search of the OSU library
revealed that the line is present in all editions owned by OSU. Since all
the books are not in the best of shape it was hard, in some cases, to tell
which edition I was examining and there are probably some of the editions
that OSU does not own. One item of interest is that, as far as I could
tell, the word "Creator" appears in a second (or later) printing of the
first edition but was not in the original version. "Creator" was present in
all the other editions I found. My own copy is the sixth edition.

Dave