transformism (transformizm)

[ cepted principles of evolution, and, so understood, commands the a ent of nearly all biologists. See Darwin ism, evolution, 2 (a), selection, 3, species, 5, transmutation, 1 (c), and trans pec i at i on. On the other hand, we may suppose that crayfishes have resulted from the modification of some other form of living matter; and this is what, to borrow a useful word from the French language, is known as transformism. Huxley , Crayfish, p. 318.